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DARPA Driverless Vehicle Champ Will Teach You Artificial Intelligence for Free

Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:51:52 +0000

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Original article from: TheKneeslider.com - Remember the DARPA Grand Challenge? It's been covered here on The Kneeslider several times when Ghostrider, the riderless motorcycle, was trying to qualify, it involved vehicles traversing a technically challenging course without any human intervention. Sebastian Thrun, who is director of the Stanford AI Lab, led the team that won [...]

Metallic Glass – Injection Mold Metal Like Plastic

Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:56:19 +0000

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Original article from: TheKneeslider.com - Metallic glass popped up in the comments following our article about rapid prototyping and I thought I'd look into it since it was new to me and sounded like something quite a few of you would like to know about, too. Things are advancing so fast now, it's hard to [...]

Rapid Prototyping Almost Production Ready

Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:20:19 +0000

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Original article from: TheKneeslider.com - We've talked about rapid prototyping before, 3D printing of intricate parts from various types of plastic or, in some cases, from metal where the durability of the finished product isn't an issue. If only they could print production ready parts for manufactured items the potential of the process would be [...]

Quick Charge Battery Developments

Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:22:11 +0000

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Original article from: TheKneeslider.com - The holy grail of battery development is a battery with high capacity plus the ability to discharge and then recharge quickly, or translated into vehicle terms, a battery that holds the energy equivalent of the standard gas tank that you can recharge as quickly as a gas station fill up. [...]

Osorb the Oil Absorber

Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:51:34 +0000

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Original article from: TheKneeslider.com - One of the constants when dealing with motor vehicles of any kind is oil and all sorts of other chemicals that can get into our water. I came across this demonstration of Osorb, a silicon and benzene polymer that sucks it all up and I was absolutely amazed. This isn't [...]