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The Havers of Rob Sharp
being the tumblog of a Scottish webgeek living and working in Sydney, Australia.
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via gizmodo “When you were in college, you spent your free time drinking tallboys of Bud Ice and playing Mario Kart 64 until 5am. These MIT students, on the other hand, built a shopping cart go-kart cart and dubbed it the LOLriokart.
The LOLrioKart consists of a big stack of NiCd aircraft batteries and a 15hp brushless motor rigged up to an old shopping cart with upgraded wheels. As you can see by the video, it travels at a pretty good clip, up to 72kph. And you’ve got to assume that in Cambridge, seeing a motorised shopping cart with a nerd inside tooling around on the street isn’t all that shocking.”
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via treehugger One of Andy’s current projects aims to demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of an automated house. And it is no modern pre-fab structure: Andy works on his own thatched cottage on the Isle of Wight, much like the one pictured above. Caution, may be addictive: You can follow Andy’s house on Twitter to receive tweets.
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from Evil Mad Scientists “Fun video of a toy train that floats about the track using a liquid nitrogen-cooled superconductor.”
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Marco Rapino, a developer working at the Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research at HSE in Helsinki, has developed a prototype controller using the accelerometer in his Nokia N95 smartphone, some Python, and the Blender 3D content creation suite.
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Academic source code dust-up symptom of CS education ills
A college student who published the source code of his completed school assignments recently found himself in a troubling confrontation with a professor. The conflict illustrates some of the deficiencies of modern computer science education.
