Archive for the ‘Robots’ Category

Sphero at CES – Contact Jugglers are obsolete

Thursday, January 12th, 2012


$129 US, more info at gosphero.com, previously on MoM.

Contact Juggling Robot

Friday, December 23rd, 2011
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At last! A robot that can contact juggle! The worlds problems are solved! Well kinda. Also kinda on the contact juggling. It drops it only slightly less than me.

MorpHex Ball

Monday, December 12th, 2011

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Let’s say you’re bodyrolling and you drop your ball, can your ball transform into a 6 legged robot and walk back to you. No. I don’t think so, your ball can’t do this…
Jump to 56sec for the transformer action.
Drew

Sphero Robotic Ball

Friday, September 9th, 2011
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ZOMG! I’m just going to write it once but you can pretend it is repeated for about ten pages. Robotic ball, controlled by your smartphone. And it glows. It’s like all your CJ glow pron dreams come true at once. Oh yes it is. Don’t try and say otherwise.

GoSphero’s Channel has lots more videos of it scaring kids and chasing cats and that sort of thing, or you can check out their website: gosphero.com

I for one welcome our new robotic…. etc.

Jugglers are Obsolete VI – Flying Ball

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

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Non-Contact ball has built in video camera and Top Gun theme.
Forget practising, get a set of these babies and anyone could juggle 5 balls in one hand.
That MoM’s Christmas list sorted out, hint hint.
Edit: OMG its a real Magic Gravity Ball!! ;)

I have an Orange Ball

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
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A while ago, A nice Brazilian man gave me an orange ball, and in return I promised a video of me using said ball.

I was slack, and took ages. Sorry about that… ANyway, this video also gives a taste of what is coming up in the workshops I’m organising around the UK at the moment.

Nik makes awesome videos. you should get him to make yours too. SRSLY. Such a good eye, and really able to express through his editing. Love it.

David “Elsewhere” Bernal – Detours

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
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Once you get past the pure level of ‘abstraction’ in Davids dancing, you begin to notice that some tiny moments stand out as visually beautiful illusions or effects. In the 2nd part of this clip (starting around 3min)  the focus changes to his ‘battle’ tricks, and we can see a more clear demonstration of skill and ability.  With a wild range of his movement, everything is locked together by this super-controlled internal flow, the speed of all his arms and legs are moving together to create a sustained tempo and he is showing us crazy variations on a lot of old-school waving, tutting, botting,  strobing, liquid, popping, boogaloo techniques.

For me, no-one has influenced my own sense of dance and movement more than David Bernal. In the early days of the Ministry of Manipulation, we would sit around in the Hangar and Jea9, Colin, Ed, Drew and I would watch his videos and be blown away, then we would run off to juggle with  a billion new ideas about movement and the way things can connect together.

Detours isn’t retail anymore (only exists on the pirate bay) and lots of other clips from the two-Dvd box set are available. Check out : The Floor is my Canvas #2 (I prefer #1, but it isn’t on youtube….)

It has been too long since he has been seen around here.

Jugglers are Obsolete V – Rollin’ Justin

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

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Wow, seriously, Wow. This pace of development of technology is amazing.
I see no reason why this Bot would not be capable of juggling balls or passing balls with a human partner.
MoM prediction – it will happen within 1 year. Get ready for retirement all you mortal human jugglers.
Bonus XKCD!
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Jugglers are Obsolete IV – Quadrotor

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

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These 2 quad rotors can juggle 1 ball while flying. These robots will learn to juggle 3 balls before you learn to fly.
Lets face it, we human jugglers are nearly obsolete. via The Lady Ada

Eimhin – INJUCO Gala show

Saturday, March 19th, 2011
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Um…

HEAVY.
That’s what happens when you do workshops people. yum.

Quantum Juggling (online pattern simulator)

Friday, February 11th, 2011

http://www.quantumjuggling.com/

An insanely detailed, highly configurable juggling simulator (for those of who who are into this sort of thing)

Jugglers are Obsolete III

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

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Jugglers are (almost) Obsolete part III. This robot can juggle 2 ping pong balls on a bat and it’s doing it the clever way.
Really impressive – Skynet is coming.
Enjoy, MoM.