Gregory Dudek's comments on technology, science, and education http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/ en-us http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/202 I gave up my cell phone plan close to a year ago, and rarely regret it. The companies that provide cell service in Canada, and most of the US, are despicable money grubbing monstrosities. Despite the chronically awful customer service, Canadians haveweofije... http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/201 I had the honor of speaking at a working at MIT yesterday on the testing of robotics systems. My own talk was heavily based our experiences testing our robotic boat, robot plane and underwater vehicles. The field trials we do involve a range of challweofije... http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/200 The perseid meteor shower had ideal conditions this year: clear skys, almost no moon, and bearable temperatures. Unfortunately, we saw only a small number of meteors, but the overall viewing conditions make the experience nonetheless very pleasant. Iweofije... http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/199 On Thursday we did a big pool trial testing out some new human-robot interaction software that Junaed, in particular, has been developing. In addition, we tested out a couple on not-yet-autonomous surface vehicles. Everything went very well. Almost aweofije... http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/180 This post deals with Digi's Xbee modules, Zigbee firmware and with non-windows software I wrote for editing the Xbee parameters from the command line. The software xbee-gdxctu is written in Python, runs on OS X and Linux, and allows Xbee parameters to be queried and set. http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/195 Last week I was in London, England with my daughter and we had a chance to visit the British Museum. It is, of course, an exceptional cross section of the human civilization. What of the great aspects of the collections are their breadth: the way youweofije... http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/194 I was awarded a prize for the Canadian Image Processing Society. Thanks! http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/193 Here are more thoughts on the Nexus-1 phone (from Google) and some of it's pros and cons in comparison to the Apple iPhone (and iPod touch). http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/192 Here are the top 4 reasons why I am frustrated, disappointed and angry about the Google Nexus-1 made by HTC. Two weeks ago I borrowed a Google Nexus-1 phone for a few days and last week I bought one. I have not been very happy with my purchase. All-iweofije... http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/191 Robotics gets a nice, albeit fluffy, plug in the New York Times, at least in the on-line edition. The "Robots Are Among Us" posting describes several interesting robotic systems pictorially. Oddly, the omit some of the most ubiquitous robots like theweofije...