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April 04, 2005
Lablog4-4-05
The project has begun. We have a basic plan for doing this. We clearly do not have enough time or money. But a plan we have. If everything goes well, no hospital visits or divorce, Michelle and I will end-up with the designs for a lot of the characters we need to tell our story, decent breadboard Michelle and James robots and the first iteration of a humanoid design kit geared towards DIY engineers, students and hobbyists.
We just completed the project plan. We have a schedule, we have broken down the project into parts we can understand, formed a team and created this website
Our lablog entries will generally consist of project progress updates, accounts of our experiments, results, design choices, etcetera including probably a healthy dose of stream-of-powderly type theories and polemics…a little here and there about our story and my colon.
And we also want to use this log as a place to archive thoughts and experiments relevant to the DIY humanoid robot KIT materials and designs.
Ultimately, this will be a place to learn from the lessons of a few engineers as they attempt to make some humanoid robots, to build-upon and contribute to our designs and to find out about some exciting emerging genres like peer robotics, DIY/personal fabrication and robotic fine art.
To start this off in the right spirit, here is a James Tate poem that captures how I feel at the start of most of our projects:
Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dream- ing so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn't afraid of that. It was a beau- tiful day. How 'bout some coffee? Don't mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.
Posted by michelle at April 4, 2005 10:13 PM
