Aarthi Ramamurthy

A phone, a robot kit and the Robotics Studio is all it takes to create WiMo.

If you're a crazy fan of robotics like me and love to tinker around with robot parts, this video is for you. This just sealed what I'm going to do with $250 - buy a Mindstorms NXT kit and play with it!

Robotics Studio just released today and it lets people develop robotic applications using Microsoft Visual Studio. Find more about it at the Robotics page or download the Studio from here. If you don't have the hardware for it yet, check out the simulation runtime.

Labels: gadgets

I told myself that I should start "serious" blogging on the 1st of December. I'm sure it's 1st December somewhere in the world. Anyhow..

As I look around my room, all I can find are wires of different lengths with different-looking end points, gadgets at the end of a lot of them, 4 plug-points charging some device or the other and lack of floor space to walk across.

Umm..let's see, there's a modem, a wireless router, a PSP, an iPod (which is very special, and I shall talk about it in another post), one external hard disk (80 GB) and one wannabe external hard disk (200 GB - ha, the trick is, I found a IDE to USB converter and started using a "normal" SATA hard disk as an external disk (for backup). It rocks!), my cell phone, a landline phone, Altec Lansing 2.1 speakers, my camera, headphones (those big, cushion-y ones), the hair straightener and finally, my two laptops (Smoke and Streak, as I call them). All of this and their respective chargers (wherever applicable) packed in a teeny weeny room!

How on earth did they become a part of the way I live? What would I do without them! The only two gadgets that are currently on my wishlist are this and this. The best part is that my PSP, my phone and my laptops are all Internet literate and can talk to each other as well. The sad part - I now need to do something about my room before my parents visit me in a month's time.

Labels: gadgets