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Robot Fish
Description from video:
A robotic fish developed by scientists from Essex University is put through its paces in a special tank at the London Aquarium. It works via sensors and has autonomous navigational control.
Should be hard creating robotics to work underwater…
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Life = Risk
12 April, 2010 - 1:20 pm
Tags: inspirational, Life, risk, vídeo
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A simple and beautiful video about the early failures, things and people that tries to put you down and we have to face before achieve what we really want. “If you never failed, you never lived”
Twitter Bot @rudaufc versão 1
9 November, 2009 - 4:54 pm
Tags: AI, API, bash, bot, Comida, CRON, crontab, culinária, CURL, ia, inteligência artificial, Linux, Restaurante Universitário, robô, robot, SH, Shell Script, tutorial, twitter, ufc, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Posted in português | 6 comments
Este aqui é um bot bem simples para Twitter. Diariamente, as nove da manhã ele posta qual vai ser o cardápio do RU (Restaurante Universitário) da UFC naquele dia. Assim, quando vai batendo a hora da fome, os alunos podem entrar no perfil @rudaufc e olhar qual vai ser o prato do dia, ou quem [...]
Casa Brasil na TV
5 March, 2009 - 10:36 am
Tags: bastidores, Casa Brasil, globo, Making off, TV, TV CE, vídeo, Verdes Mares, Vitória
Posted in português | 1 comment
Esse é uma amostras dos bastidores do que rolou nas filmagens nessa terça-feira na Casa Brasil unidade Vila União. As filmagens são por mim e pela pequena Vitória de apenas 5 anos. =) A reportagem vai ao ar no canal da Globo, esse sábado ao meio dia. Não percam! Atualizado em 7 de Março: Algumas [...]
Arduino and Java
1 March, 2009 - 11:31 pm
Tags: Arduino, Comm, Dave Brink, Java, netbeans, Robotics, RXTX, Serial
Posted in english | 44 comments
Arduino is a free popular platform for embedded programming based on a simple I/O board easily programmable. Interfacing it with Java allow us to create sophisticated interfaces and take advantages from the several API available in the Java ecosystem. I’m following the original Arduino and Java interfacing tutorial by Dave Brink but in a more [...]
Mechanical Watch Source Code
17 January, 2009 - 10:01 pm
Tags: clock, how things works, source code, vídeo, watch
Posted in english | 1 comment
Video from produced in 1949 by Hamilton Watch Company explains how a mechanical clock works. Worth see.
Shhh, HD running!
2 January, 2009 - 8:18 pm
Tags: DTrace, hardware, IO, Opensolaris, shout, vídeo, yell, zfs
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Brendan Gregg made an unusual discovery, shouting a HD produces pikes of latency. We’ll see sound proof data centers now? Another point to solid-state drivers. I wonder if playing loud music near my computer makes IO slower.
Gravatar with JavaFX
21 December, 2008 - 8:26 pm
Tags: Avatar, encryption, Gravatar, Java, JavaFX, MD5, MD5sum, RIA, vídeo
Posted in english | 11 comments
Gravatar is easy way to put global recognized avatar images into any Internet application. Gravatar would stands for globally recognized avatar. Below, the Java class that I got from the Gravatar Java reference. Here is a static class called md5 that applies a MD5Sum algorithm over a string. Is a little complex code but all [...]
JavaFX SDK 1.0 on Linux
6 December, 2008 - 4:15 am
Tags: JavaFX, jfx, Linux, openjfx, RIA, tutorial, ubuntu, unofficial, vídeo, Weiqi Gao, workaround
Posted in english | 17 comments
JavaFX 1.0 is out and is absolutely amazing. You guys did really a great work on it. As I really need a working SDK on Linux to continue to study and I don’t have any Windows/Mac near me, I’m using the Weiqi Gao’s workaround. I tried to simplify a little bit more the process for [...]
Un P’tit Café
3 December, 2008 - 10:22 pm
Tags: animation, Café, Monsier D, Odelaf, vídeo
Posted in français | 1 comment
Par Odelaf e Monsier D. Lyrique: Pour bien commencer Ma petite journée Et me réveiller Moi, j’ai pris un café Un arabica Noir et bien corsé J’enfile ma parka Ça y est je peux y aller «Où est-ce que tu vas ?» Me crie mon aimée «Prenons un kawa Je viens de me lever» Étant [...]
JavaFX Overview Slides
19 October, 2008 - 10:35 pm
Tags: café com tapioca, CEJUG, Faculdade Christus, Java, JavaFX, jug, netbeans, RIA, screencast, vídeo
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My slides about a overview on JavaFX at our last CEJUG event. JavaFX Overview View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: javafx ria) Downloads: javafx_cct_cejug_oct_2008.odp javafx_cct_cejug_oct_2008.pdf Here a little screncast showing the live preview feature on the NetBeans JavaFX Plugin. You can also download the orignal screencast in higher resolution netbeans_javafx_preview.ogg (15 Mb). Photos [...]













3 October, 2008 - 2:04 pm
unbelievable how real this fish looks it seems lifelike.
3 October, 2008 - 6:56 pm
Muito bacana este peixe!