Bill W
About: I am super cool. At least that is what I program my robots to tell me.
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Three Questions with Brad Heath - Virtex Assembly
Virtex Assembly is a high tech circuit board assembly firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founder and CEO Brad Heath sat down with SciVestor to discuss how Virtex is going to change the world, why Moore’s Law is driving automation gains, and why the business community cares about what Virtex is doing.
iRobot Sells Former Competitor’s Product
What has become a milestone in the evolutionary timeline of robotic market development, iRobot sued its former competitor Robotic FX to death last year. At the center of the battle was the Robotic FX version of a robot called The Negotiator which allegedly violated U.S. Patents 6,263,989 and 6,431,296 that relate to robot platform and [...]
SciVestor Video - Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap 2010-2020
SciVestor Executive Director Jonas Lamis narrates the Autonomous Vehicle Roadmap that was presented at RoboBusiness 2008. This presentation is based in part on Robot Central’s observations, research, and opinions of emergent technologies from the DARPA Grand Challenge series of competitions. It highlights progress and challenges in the technologies necessary to facilitate civilian [...]
BoozeBot 9000 Feels Your Pain
Patrons at your typical dank, seedy bar typically want two things from their barkeep- a perfectly prepared whiskey sour and a sympathetic ear. An ear ready to hear all about your tragic life and how nobody loves you. Those attending the misleadingly named Roboexotica in San Francisco last weekend want to outsource [...]
Touch Bionics a 2008 da Vinci Award winner
Touch Bionics, developer of the world’s first commercially available bionic hand, announced that the i-LIMB Hand has won a 2008 da Vinci Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The da Vinci Awards recognize the most innovative developments and research in adaptive and assistive technology. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society understands well the difficulties people [...]
iRobot Launches New Robot to Address Growing Public Safety Market
iRobot Negotiator Provides a Cost-Effective, Basic Reconnaissance Robot to Public Safety Organizations Bedford, Mass., August 6, 2008 – iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) today announced the introduction of the iRobot Negotiator, a low-cost tactical robot designed to meet the basic reconnaissance needs of public safety professionals. After the success of the company’s iRobot PackBot 510, iRobot heard from [...]
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Did anyone else make a live web recommender for links? If so, post it here. I am intersted to see what other people did.
Here is mine:
If you get a 503 message, it is because you are being too aggressive with the del.icio.us servers and got throttled. Here is the link that explains it:
Is anyone else having problems with the del.icio.us assignment. Everything was working fine and then suddenly I started getting this error. Is any one else experiencing the same thing. Looks like the server crashed.
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 783, in get_urlposts
return getrss(url = url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 774, in getrss
return dlcs_rss_request(tag=tag, popular=popular, user=user, url=url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 414, in dlcs_rss_request
rss = http_request(url).read()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 261, in http_request
raise PyDeliciousException, "%s" % e
pydelicious.PyDeliciousException: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
I added a section to the bottom of HW2 on the wiki for people to place links to their homepage. Seemed like an efficient way to visit everyone's site quickly and generate a lot of good data.
