Pleo is UGOBE’s first robot and is based on the Camarasaurus dinosaur. It is made up of a large number of sensors and motors, with an ARM-7 processor. Its official site is @ http://www.pleoworld.com/.
A tear-down is available @ http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209401107
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Free Data Cleansing Tool
Talend has released its Open Profiler 1.0.0RC1 under GPL 2.0 open source license. It is a GUI-based tool for Linux, Unix, and Windows that offers peek inside data sources they are about to work with to verify that those data sources adhere to project quality goal or metrics.
You can download it @ http://www.talend.com/download.php at the bottom of the page.
You can download it @ http://www.talend.com/download.php at the bottom of the page.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
3 Brainy Video Games
For your amusement (Ithink they all use Flash):
Open Doors @ http://www.kongregate.com/games/soapaintnice/open-doors
Hoshi Saga (Star Hunt ) @ www.tinyurl.com/3944cq
Hoshi Saga 2 @ www.tinyurl.com/2mtklw
Open Doors @ http://www.kongregate.com/games/soapaintnice/open-doors
Hoshi Saga (Star Hunt ) @ www.tinyurl.com/3944cq
Hoshi Saga 2 @ www.tinyurl.com/2mtklw
Complexity Tool for MS Excel
Ontonix is providing an online service which can transform MS Excel files and produce Risk and Complexity Maps.
Lilly Science Grid
Eli Lilly has made its Discovery IT platform, known internally as the Lilly Science Grid (LSG), open source.
LSG is a plug-in hosting and deployment framework that sits on top of Microsoft’s Composite Application Block. It is a rich client that requires .NET 2.0 or higher.
The framework simplifies the task of creating new plug-ins by providing a Visual Studio template from which developers can quickly learn and expand. Users can choose which applications and plug-ins to use within an integrated environment.
Find it @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsg
LSG is a plug-in hosting and deployment framework that sits on top of Microsoft’s Composite Application Block. It is a rich client that requires .NET 2.0 or higher.
The framework simplifies the task of creating new plug-ins by providing a Visual Studio template from which developers can quickly learn and expand. Users can choose which applications and plug-ins to use within an integrated environment.
Find it @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsg
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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