Fantastic Caricature Picture Of fixed1t

This is the fantastic caricature picture drawn by my previous Secretary Lesley Birch's husband John Birch for my 50th Birthday.  They were great times and it was a lovely gesture as it brought together my hobbies of sailing and singer song writing along with my wickedly sarcastic outlook on life.

Thanks John and Lesley.

Infant Oliver Chatting With His NAO Robot Friend In 3D Part 2

This video is about Infant Oliver Chatting With His NAO Robot Friend In 3D Part 2

fixed1t Virtual Reality 3D A New 3D VR Video From fixed1t Using My JVC Everio Dual Lens 3D GS0TD1-17

As a child I watched TOBOR THE GREAT and dreamed of having and wanted a robot friend. Now for Oliver my NAO Robot, NAO-SAN is a reality and such that friend. As he has none of the discriminatory biases and prejudices to NAO-SAN he is happy and relaxed to chat with him.  I'm working on speech to text for NAO-SAN so I can remotely carry out a conversation with which ever 'special needs' child I'm working with.

This is side-by-side 3D Google Cardboard

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The Rise and Fall of a Companion Robot: Lessons Learned from Pleo

(May 27, 2009) John Sosoka

Fantastic lecture by the designer of the PLEO Robot Dinosaur, shortly before the company went in Chapter 7.

Its a brilliant lecture in AI, Robotics and Man Machine Interaction, luckily I picked up one of these robots on eBay so watching this has given me a great background on using it.

Picture of PLEO and John Sosoka

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My NAO Robot Watching Flowers Grow Part 2

Following the failure of the Daffodil to open in NAO SAN's tiny hands after 3 days of patient filming in my last video I got new flowers and set up a new shoot. I hope you like the results NAO SAN Robot Nurturing Daffodils And Chrysanthemums

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My NAO Robot Watching Flowers Grow Part 1

Videoing a time-lapse sequence with a robot, a vase and a flower should be straight forward shouldn't it and take a few minutes, shouldn't it?

This video shows even getting the lighting right is fraught with hazards.



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What Was Your First Home Computer? Mine Was A £500K Analogue Computer

Around 1978 a friend of mines father came round one day to say his department at University were about to dump a computer, and was I interested in it.  Imagining a suitcase sized device I said yes. He told me it had to be out of the department by the end of the week or it would be dumped.

As I didn't drive at the time I asked one of my Student Mental Nurse friends Walter if he could possibly give me a lift to the University and our friend Martin said he'd like to come along for the ride.

We arrived at the University and discovered that this wasn't a suitcase size computer, but was a huge table sized analogue computer from Electronic Associates, Inc a model TR-48

This is the Model of Analogue Computer now in the National Computer Museum in Bletchley UK

To get it in the car we had to remove the back seats and the front passenger seat.  Manhandle the beast into the back of the car, refit the passenger seat then all climb in.

When I got it home it created quite a stir.  As I was teaching myself electronics at the time, by building my own analogue synthesiser, I could plug this into the synth and do some amazing things. For years people came around the house after the pubs closed to look at the amazing machine working adding voltages together and making weird and amazing sounds through the synth.

I too had a huge oscilloscope on top of it so you could watch the complex waveforms it produced.

It was truly stunning to have half a million pounds worth of machine in a Whitfield Council house.

Then I got a ZX80 which was a huge disappointment. LOL It didn't have patchboards huge coloured panels with motors to load and unload it and Voltmeters and best of all precision 20 turn pots to twiddle.

I'm posting this on Facebook so Walter, Martin, Debbie and others can recognise the beast of 23 Elms Road :-)

Come to think of it, I must be the only person in the world to ever have such a complex analogue computer in their home to play with LOL a crazy achievement to be proud of :-)

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Tiny Robot Playing With MAGNEXT iCOASTER

This video came about after 2.5 year old Oliver, his mum Katya and I had finished playing with his favourite toy, my MAGNEXT iCOASTER. He only gets to build and play with it supervised.  But he was concerned that Tiny Robot would sneak up and play with it when he wasn't here.  So his geeky Uncle fixed1t arranged for Tiny Robot to sneak in and Play With MAGNEXT iCOASTER.  Oliver will love the video. :-)



Sadly after making this video, the Tiny Robot, a Mini Robosapien was involved in a Dogging Incident with my dog Bree a 3 year old Lurcher ( saluki and greyhound cross)

My Dog Chewed Up My Tiny Robot A Mini Robosapien

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