Maybe not air.  What I mean to say is that it’s full of hot gas.  See the quote referrenced below the link.  Instead of truly degrading the energy use in the house they simply offload it onto a natural gas line instead of the grid or local power generation and presto, you don’t need as […]

Armies of Japanese robots running the open source Linux operating system will now be marching through a town near you!
Or maybe not. But General Robotix has developed programmable software that runs on Linux for their towering 14 inch doom-bot.
How long until their (tiny) army is unleashed on the world?

Robot backers turn to Linux

Maybe it’s the way you’ve become, or maybe it was just the way you were born.
But wouldn’t it be cool to look like one of the characters from Frank Miller’s Sin City?
Well, now you can with the art tutorial on how to create the “Sin City look” in a picture. Check out the […]

And as the quote below shows, they’re all about open.  They love the word.  As long as open means “runs only on, for, and by Microsoft” they’re as open as they come.
Where as robotics applications usually use stable and home-built apps to make the buggers do their automated thing.
Somehow I don’t think it’ll fly.  But […]

Lest you be under the impression that I’m commending it on sucking the crap out of the drainage system.
After trying a few different types of drain cleaning product such as Drain-O and Liquid Plumber I went the old fashioned route and got a pipe snake. What that is is an auger on the end […]