Brain Chip

The brain chip (neurochip) is almost around the corner, its now in monkey's heads, for more infoe please clck the link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061025/sc_space/brainchipaltersthemind

EID Mubarak

EID Mubarak to all the Muslims around the world, may Allah grant you all the wishes

Smallest Hard Drive

New form Toshiba, 0.85-inch disk with 4 GB, but will sure get bigger soon, check the link below for details

http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=810000000007000000010000659800000001/810000000B00000000010000659C000026AE

Scientists Create Cloak of Partial Invisibility

A microwave cloaking device created using artificial materials, called "metamaterials," that manipulate light in bizarre and startling ways. The cloak is made of copper rings and wires patterned onto sheets of fiberglass composite. Credit: D.R. Smith, D. Schurig, Duke University

Read detail at the Yahoo below
http://news.yahoo.com:80/s/space/20061019/sc_space/scientistscreatecloakofpartialinvisibility

AutoPark Feature

Modern cars have AutoPark mode, see this movie clip
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/73123/auto_parking/

TTL Data Sheets are here

Full specs of TTL logic devices used in the microprocessor systems lab is here (PDF download is also available)

http://focus.ti.com/logic/docs/logicportal.tsp?templateId=5985&DCMP=TIHomeTracking&HQS=Other+OT+home_p_logic

ASIMO running

If you dont have time to read about ASIMO, here is where you can see him running making a human being totally asonished
http://world.honda.com/run/splash2/index.html

AISMO website is here

ASIMO seems to be the most advanced robot on earth, it can step out of the car, walk on his own, climb stairs and greet people when necessary !!!. For more information about ASIMO, check the link below
http://asimo.honda.com/index.asp?bhcp=1

Japan's Coolest Technology

At an annual trade show in Japan this week there are robots that ride bicycles, penguin-bots, handheld spoken-word language translators and all sorts of odd and inscrutable gizmoids that may not survive the fickle Japanese market long enough to make it to the States

Humanoids:

Toyota's playing trumpet



Honda's ASIMO walking

Robots could sense shapes with whiskers

Seals track prey with them, rats sense nearby objects with them and robots could soon be using whiskers in a similar way to see in the dark and avoid obstacles, researchers said on Wednesday.
They developed an array of robotic whiskers that move in any pattern over an object just as they do on living creatures.

Full story is here
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/10/05/robot.whiskers.reut/index.html

Robot Stuff Links . . .

Reference Model Architecture, suitable for many software-intensive, real-time control problem domains. RCS is open and scalable.
http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/rcs/overview.html

A personal exploration rover is here
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~personalrover/PER/

NASA Robot web links are here
http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/ROV/nlinks.html

JAMECO is a place where you get hardware for your project
http://www.robotstore.com/

Multi-Exploration document (IEEE)
http://www.eldos.net/multi-exploration.pdf

Graduation Project: Makeing a Robot

Amani AbuQdais, Haneen AlDeek, Lillian Abudalo and Ahmed Alhussein of JUST are in phase I of making a robot that will be used for exploration and some other functions. A link to Amani's blog is here
http://nippon86.blogspot.com

CpE591: Projet I

Under no circumstances any student will be enrolled with me in this course if he does not have approval by Thursday Oct. 5th, 2006

Welcome

I would like to welcome the stdents who attended today's lecture, and urge everyone to avoid missing Wenesday's lecture at the same time. The plan is to have a lng one to substitute for the lecture we missed last Monday

Fast & Shallow

To get an diea about a computing term or how a device works, you can consult one of the following sites

www.foldoc.org

www.wikipedia.com

www.howstuffworks.com/

VLSI Microprocessors

VLSI Microprocessors: A Guide to High-Performance MicroprocessorResources
http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/#Digital-21264

Intel Mueum

Intel Meseum, or Hall of Fame, list the processors of the 70's, 80's and 90's with specs and quick references
http://www.intel.com/museum/online/hist_micro/hof/tspecs.htm

Make a ROBOT

http://mindstorms.lego.com/

Example: A small MC68008 system

Here is an example of the single board computer you are going to build in the lab using Motorola MC68008 processor
http://wandel.ca/homepage/mc68008/index.html