Picture of the week first week of july

My first Demotivator but not my first cynical thought (being vegan has nothing to do with it)

some interesting kinetic and musical art

Phoenix finds Five Cent Piece

Phoenix Lander finds what appears to be an Australian five cent piece buried in Martian Soil. "Does this mean that Aussies beat us to the Pole. First We need to use the Electron microscope and then run the data on the Zados program. Then we can be sure of the authenticity"

Picture of the week last week of june 08

Toy robots to replace real Endangered species by 2020

Aussies win embedded technology comp

UNSW wins the Artemis Music Orchestra competition. The rules are simple to make music with real instruments using embedded control. The team picked the Clarinet a tough instrument. And with a special robotic mouthpiece, vibration on the reed was eliminated and a superior sound produced. That is some serious speed those pneumatic actuators playing.

You can see in the video why they won.





But if you want a robot band to play your gig check these guys The Trons out from across the Tasman

Picture of the week third week of june 08

Tim Burton praises NASA for morbid looking Snow White trench and use of black and white for dramatic effect

NASA confirms reasons for nursery rhymes

"We just wanted to have a little fun" is the reason given by NASA for using nursery rhymes characters for the names of the geological formations observed by the Phoenix Lander. "We didn't want elementary school students to get confused about whether it was make-believe or not. We had suggestions of using the names of Polar Explorers but we didn't want to confuse the students with names that are unrecognisable and the last thing we want is a Science class to turn into a history lesson".