A special nod to those who are providing assistance for the storm-ravaged country of the Philippines. Any support you can provide — financial, logistical, etc. — would go a long way toward binding our global population together in ways that make sense.
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Advice from philanthropists
Some words of wisdom from the speakers at the Summit on Philanthropy:
- If you have a vision, things flow along and follow that vision
- Vision without execution is hallucination
- A good project needs a strong emotional component
- Protect your capital and grow your investment wisely over time
- Philanthropy equals exercise and promotion of values — in other words, what are your passions?
- Philanthropy is about investment of your time first (volunteer hours) and then your financial resources
- To live, we must give back to others using our skills and talents in service
- Philanthropy is a way of life, a way of thinking, not just a series of events — be willing to give the clothes off your back and help individuals become better people
- Giving starts with us — diverting our daily discretionary funds (e.g., giving up our snacks/Cokes for a week and convincing others to do the same) toward community efforts
- The way to build a charity is to start one
- The best philanthropic project starts with your family — talk to your spouse/kids and get them involved; remember that “no” is just as important as “yes”; make sure it fits into your strategic life plans/vision
- Nonprofit organisations must know the cost of raising funds
- “Don’t sign up — show up!”
- You don’t have to be Mother Theresa to have a positive impact on your community
- Be civically obsessed and keep the spirit of giving alive and well
- Projects successful because they came out of what the community wanted for itself
- “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” — African proverb
- Your mission is to increase giving. Why? To strengthen the community.
Make: Robotic Hacks, the Robotic Experts presentation
Tonight on a Google+ Hangout, we listened to a group of robotic experts, many in the 3D DIY printing specialty, who talked about their creations:
…second installment of Robot Hacks, a Maker Session.
This will be a team presentation featuring +Michael Overstreet (I, bioloid) talking about his 3D printed humanoid robotic projects; Aaron Park (Robotis) open sourced DARwIn-mini, Dr Chi Thai (University of Georgia) and +Michael Paulishen programming the open sourced CM-904; +Erin RobotGrrl shows us RoboBrrd and her 3D printed robot; +Heriberto Reynoso (NASA) teaches kids how to build and program robots; and +lem fugitt talks about robot developments outside of the US and the application of 3D printing to robot design.Join the conversation on the Robot Hacks community page.
Robot Hacks is the latest Maker Session presented by Make magazine and +General Electric. This 3 week program is designed to engage teams of makers around the world to participate in an open source “Robot Hacking and Making” program.
The standout image for me amongst all the cool ideas and commercial products?
A high school robotics education program:
To be clear, robotic development programs by full-grown humans is important but we old ones (say, age 35+) are merely pointing the way for the next generation.
In any case, here are some more screenshots of tonight’s presenters with their “children”:
Oops! Technical difficulties — video echo, echo echo echoechoecho…
Thanks to everyone involved, including the behind-the-scenes people who maintain servers/routers, design webcams and otherwise keep the Internet loosely bound together across the globe and beyond!
New member of the “association”
I’m proud to announce I’ve joined the society you probably heard something about and wondered about its secrets. Yeah, you know the one:
The science of curiosity
Sometimes, just being curious can change society.
The duh factor
So, today I’ve spent several hours with the design team deciding what we want our dancing mannequins to be.
I’ll get to that in a minute or two.
Meanwhile, I’ve been uncrating and sorting the parts for the Arduino kit, starting to wire up the PIR/ultrasonic sensor array for controlling the dancing mannequins.
Wired up everything just fine.
Wrote some code in the Arduino programming environment and compiled just fine.
One small problem — couldn’t program the Arduino Uno.
Enter the duh factor — I had chosen the wrong COM port.
Sometimes the simplest details will stop progress.
Thanks to the dude N. Fletch, the problem, avrdude stk500_getsync(): not in sync resp=0x30 error for Arduino Uno, was fixed!
A shoutout to RobotGrrl, Michael Overstreet and others at the Robot Hacks community for their help and encouragement!
The beginning of oneself as cybernetic organism
First entries in the Make: engineering notebook:
3 November 2013 Robot Hacks Maker Sessions: Cool Projects, Tutorials, Explorations & More, Maker Sessions: November 3-20 Sample materials sent by the Maker Session Team: Two (2) engineering notebooks One (1) 9V/650mA "wallwart" power supply One (1) Make: magazine volume 34 One (1) Make: magazine volume 36 One (1) Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets book One (1) Make: Ultimate Microcontroller Pack One (1) PWM servo shield Four (4) 9g servos Four (4) 30 cm servo cables One (1) Welcome letter from Sherry Huss IDEAS
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What separates the physical from the virtual?
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What cannot be represented with augmented reality?
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What has already been created via automaton/analog robots?
Makers and fair trade
As the Robot Hacks: Maker Sessions, Cool Projects, Tutorials, Explorations & More begins today, I take a quick look back at yesterday:
A small sample of material in my madcap scientist laboratory study…
May all the participants have fun while learning and stretching their imaginations!
Contest: create a new kind of science kit for kids – Boing Boing
Happier than a pumpkin that survived Halloween!
Great news!:
Subject: Robot Hacks – your package is on its way to you….
Thanks for signing up as a participating team in the Robot Hacks Maker Session. We are pleased to inform you that a package of MAKE materials, components and parts has been shipped out to you and if you have not already received it, you should be receiving it any day now.
We kick off this series with a Google + Hangout on Air live from Olin College with Brian David Johnson, and more Maker Masters this Sunday, November 3rd, 2013 (from noon – 3pm ET). We’ll be discussing his vision of the 21st Century Robot and talking to the makers behind Jimmy the Robot, and more… We are also encouraging teams to get involved and create their own open source robots – and have set aside kits for teams that would like to get involved.
An overview on Maker Sessions, Robot Hacks can be found here: http://makezine.com/robot-hacks/
If you would like to check it out online, Sunday, 11/3 from 1pm-2pm ET, please join us here: http://bit.ly/19THpub
And, be sure to sign up to become a part of the Make Robot Hacks community, by signing in here: http://bit.ly/robothacks This is the perfect forum to ask questions, follow other #RobotHacks makers and post photos of your progress. We will be hanging out here throughout this program.
The twitter hashtag for this program is #robothacks — share your progress via twitter!
Thanks in advance for being part of this program! We very much appreciate your support.
Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
Sherry
@make #robothacks
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