Topographical LEGO Map of Middle Earth
For the Christchurch Brick Show 2014 I build a Topographical LEGO Map of Middle Earth. I measures 2×2 meters and consists of 7 levels. It took approximately 30.000 bricks and four months to build the...
View ArticleNew Zealand Herald reports on our 3D printed robot project
The New Zealand Herald reports today on our project to build a InMoov robot. This robot is open source hardware, meaning that all the blueprints and plans are available for download. You can send the...
View ArticleGovernor General visits the HIT Lab NZ
The Govenor General, Jerry Mateparae, visited the HIT Lab NZ on March 9th, 2016. We presented our main research areas to him, including Human-Robot Interaction. Jerry Mateparae seemed to enjoy the...
View ArticleLEGO Unikitty MOC in lifesize
This is my latest MOC: A LEGO Unikitty! It is 180cm tall and features a rotating head and sparkly eyes. It took several month from planning to finish and never used as many pink bricks in my life....
View ArticleHave LEGO Products Become More Violent?
We just published our article “Have LEGO Products Become More Violent?” at PLOS One. Here is the abstract: Although television, computer games and the Internet play an important role in the lives of...
View ArticleNew Zealand Herald reports on our 3D printed robot project
The New Zealand Herald reports today on our project to build a InMoov robot. This robot is open source hardware, meaning that all the blueprints and plans are available for download. You can send the...
View ArticleYellow Buggy – A tiny and robust RC LEGO car
This is a very small, robust, reliable and easy to maintain buggy. It is ideal for letting your kids play with all day. The design goal was to make a robust car as small and simple as possible. This...
View ArticleQuincunx LEGO GBC Module (Galton Board)
Today I would like to show you my latest GBC module, a Quincunx also known as a Galton Board, named after its inventor Sir Francis Galton who used it to demonstrate the central limit theorem in 1894....
View ArticleRobot Philosophy Conference 2016
I had the pleasure of giving a keynote at the Robot Philosophy Conference 2016. The people in Denmark have been very friendly and our hotel is great. It is very interesting to see Human-Robot...
View ArticleiOS Just Got A Paper On Nuclear Physics Accepted At A Scientific Conference
Automatically generating scientific articles has become easy with dedicated software such as SCIgen. Even a paper that only repeated the sentence “Get me of your fucking mailing list” was recently...
View ArticleRevisiting 8230 Coastal Police Buggy – Stud.io Review
A review of the new Stud.io closed beta software. It is an excellent LEGO digital design software with a huge potential.
View ArticleWorking in a “smart” building
For more than a year I have the pleasure to work in an office in the John Britten building at the University of Canterbury. The office is light, friendly and spacious. I should be more than happy but...
View ArticleLEGO Compatible Medium Sized Thrust Ball Bearing
LEGO’s turn table has considerable friction and rotating a model at an exhibition for a whole day would ruin it. A thrust ball bearing is necessary to decrease the friction. I previously 3D printed a...
View ArticleTicTacToe Playing LEGO Mindstorms Robot Using Computer Vision
You can play TicTacToe with this LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot. It uses three motors to drop the balls into the right field. It uses a NXTCam to view the board and then calculates the best move using a...
View ArticleBloomberg Businessweek interviewed Omics about my nonsense paper
Esmé E Deprez and Caroline Chen from Bloomberg Businessweek visited the headquarters of Omics in India to interview its owner Srinubabu Gedela about his company. Omics is widely considered a predatory...
View ArticlePersuasive Robotics Talk At The Emotional Machines Conference
My talk on Persuasive Robots at the Emotional Machines Conference.
View ArticleComparison of color measurement accuracy of ColorMunki Design and FRU WR-10QC...
Review of the measurement accuracy of the ColorMunki Design and the FRU WR-10.
View ArticleFonthill Abbey
We launched our Fonthill Abbey website on which we document our efforts to bring this amazing building and the story of its owner back to life. We created an interactive Virtual Reality Game that...
View ArticleSimple LEGO Mindstorms Mars Rover
This is simple Mars Rover model using two LEGO Mindstorms EV3 and a total of eight motors. The two EV3 are daisy chained and the model can be controlled using the EV3 IR Remote Control. The model uses...
View ArticleVisions of our android future
I started to play Detroit – Becoming Human and the start of the game introduces us to a world in which most of the work is done by androids. The designers paid attention to portraying every day life...
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