Collaborate Disseminate
Ed Catmull, Ph.D. proudly displaying the Pixar animation render farm in 1995. It is rather important to note the farm – as depicted – can now be calculated to be the equivalent to 1/2 of a iPhone 6’s comput… Continue reading iPhone, Halved
In this post I’ll provide a brief overview of IFTTT and Zapier and Microsoft’s contribution to the user-friendly, user-powered workflow services tool, Microsoft Flow.
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Cyber-attacks and data breaches routinely make headlines in the largest publications and broadcasts in the world. Millions have read and watched as news journalists explain exactly what had happened during the Proton Mail attack or the BBC hack. The access and manipulation that can happen when communication outlets are targeted is a very real and dangerous […] Continue reading Newsrooms and Automation
This Raspberry Pi 2 with computer vision and two solenoid “fingers” was getting absurdly high scores on a mobile game as of late 2015, but only recently has [Kristian] finished fleshing the project out with detailed documentation.
Developed for a course in image analysis and computer vision, this project wasn’t really about cheating at a mobile game. It wasn’t even about a robotic interface to a smartphone screen; it was a platform for developing and demonstrating the image analysis theory he was learning, and the computer vision portion is no hack job. OpenCV was used as a foundation for accessing …read more
Continue reading Abusing a Cellphone Screen with Solenoids Posts High Score
Earlier this month, the DARPA-backed Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) has shown that a future in which computer systems will (wholly or partially) replace bug hunters and patchers looms near. Now, the team that has won third place in the contest – Shellphish of Santa Barbara, California – has open sourced many of the components of its winning Mechanical Phish cyber reasoning system. But individuals and teams interested in testing and advancing the system will have … More → Continue reading Open sourced: Cyber reasoning system that won third place in DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge
[Fred Hoefler] was challenged to finally do something with that Raspberry Pi he wouldn’t keep quiet about. So he built a machine assist loom for the hand weaver. Many older weavers simply can’t enjoy their art anymore due to the physical strain caused by the repetitive task. Since he had a Pi looking for a purpose, he also had his project.
His biggest requirement was cost. There are lots of assistive looms on the market, but the starting price for those is around ten thousand dollars. So he set the rule that nothing on the device would cost more than …read more
Continue reading One Man, A Raspberry Pi, and a Formerly Hand Powered Loom
Even in this age of wearable technology, the actual fabric in our t-shirts and clothes may still be the most high-tech product we wear. From the genetically engineered cotton seed, though an autonomous machine world, this product is manufactured in one of the world’s largest automation bubbles. Self-driving cotton pickers harvest and preprocess the cotton. More machines blend the raw material, comb it, twist and spin it into yarn, and finally, a weaving machine outputs sheets of spotless cotton jersey. The degree of automation could not be higher. Except for the laboratories, where seeds, cotton fibers, and yarns are tested …read more
Continue reading Filling The Automation Gap In Garment Manufacturing
The once successful Kickstarter and National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant winner Electroloom is saying “Thanks and Farewell” to its backers, supporters, and sponsors. The startup ran out of funding while developing printer-like machine that uses electrospinning to automatedly produce ready-to-use garments.
Electroloom has been an ambitious project to explore if electrospinning could be made viable for garment manufacturing. The process that uses a high voltage to transform a resinous liquid into non-woven fabric was originally invented for textile fabrication, although its low throughput has always been a limiting factor. The method was mostly used in laboratory and medical applications. …read more
Anyone who owns their own pool knows it’s not as simple as filling it up with water and jumping in whenever you want. There’s pool covers to deal with, regular cleaning with the pool vacuum and skimmers, and of course, all of the chemicals that have to be added to keep the water safe. While there are automatic vacuums, there aren’t a whole lot of options for automating the pool chemicals. [Clément] decided to tackle this problem, eliminating one more task from the maintenance of his home. (Google Translate from French.)
The problem isn’t as simple as adding a set …read more
DARPA announced on Thursday that a computer system designed by a team of Pittsburgh-based researchers is the presumptive winner of the Agency’s Cyber Grand Challenge. The winning computer system, dubbed Mayhem, was created by a team known as ForAllSecure—one of seven teams that competed for nearly $4 million in prizes in an all-day competition, performed in front of 5,000 computer security professionals and others at the Paris Las Vegas Conference Center. Xandra, a computer system … More → Continue reading Can a computer system compete against human CTF experts?
