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Just found a Catalyst Control Center Easter EGG that just shows a Picture of the Dev team and scrolls a list of the members.
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And I bet Leslie Nielsen was in it.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
modified 21-Dec-13 7:23am.
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Nope,
If you have the notification icon enabled.
press ctl + shift + alt then left double click the icon and the form will open. 
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"Leslie Nielsen" is an in-joke: it means that what you posted has been seen here before and is thus a repost, not that the late Mr Nielsen has anything to do with the easter egg...
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Check out OP's profile.  ?
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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He didn't do a lot here for the first 7 years, did he? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: He didn't do a lot here for the first 7 years
Neither did I!
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you have a link to the original post ?
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oh Ok,
I've never seen it before I just ran across how to do it in the source code using ILSpy.
I was trying to figure out where they where getting the Direct3D Version from.
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So, unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past decade, you'll have heard of the Segway self-balancing scooter-thinga-mabobs. A number of you will have even had a go at making a self-balancing robot with a micro-controller and some inertia sensors any gyros. It's quite neat. Not spectacularly complicated, mathematically speaking, but still an impressive thing to witness. It is however, a 1D effect - it's only self-balancing forward/backward. It's also rather large, though diy robots can be fairly small.
Today I saw a video of 3 such systems integrated into a cube 15cm along each side - 1 system per axis. The result is a cube that can 'walk' along surfaces or as the title says, balance on a single corner - after 'standing-up' from a rest-position of sitting on one of it's faces. If a picture speaks a 1000 words, watch the video for a million of them.
http://io9.com/meet-cubli-the-remarkable-balancing-box-1487322476[^]
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I want one!!!
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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I'll save you a spot in the (I suspect, very long) line.
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Pretty amazing little device. 
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Thought you'd enjoy it Mike, I immediately thought of you when I saw it and made mention of diy self-balancing robots.
Love to know if they're high or low Kv motors, outrunner/inrunner types, Sensored/non-sensored, geared/direct-drive etc, etc, etc. Reckon there may even be under $100 of hardware in it..
Given the relative rapidity that we've seen diy quad-copters made almost a commodity item ($18 minus TX is the cheapest I've seen), and the increasing sophistication with which swarms of quads are controlled, I really can't wait to see some of these teaming-up together.
Looking forward to more of your articles on the Rover project you've got going on.
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enhzflep wrote: Thought you'd enjoy it Mike, I immediately thought of you when I saw it and made mention of diy self-balancing robots.
Thanks, yeah I'm very interested in devices controlled by uProcessors.
enhzflep wrote: Looking forward to more of your articles on the Rover project you've got going on.
I got the motors wired up the other day and programmed it to move forward and back just to see it move but got way layed on a remodeling job here at the house. The remodeling is just about done and will be writing Part 2 soon.
I'm also learning Python and Linux because I want to step up my embedded programming up a notch using a Raspberry Pi or Beagle Black Bone, haven't decided yet.
I'm very bad about getting side tracked (ADD and all) and I'm interested in so many things it's hard for me to stay focused on one thing for long.
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Looks at the box with a rasPi, bread-boarded arduino projects and various (unused) ESCs, motors, LiPos, plane plans and components etc and :laughs: Probly a good thing I didn't grab a Cox 0.049 yet.. 
Yup, know just how that one goes. "Life is the series of events that happens when we're busy planning something else" is a quote that comes to mind..
Not sure which of the two I'd buy just now if I didn't have the Pi. Probably still it, since it can do hardware encode/decode of 1920x1080 h264 video in real-time. Though for general purpose i/o, I'd likely go with a BBB.
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enhzflep wrote: Not sure which of the two I'd buy just now if I didn't have the Pi. Probably still it, since it can do hardware encode/decode of 1920x1080 h264 video in real-time. Though for general purpose i/o, I'd likely go with a BBB.
I really like the BBB but the community support, number and types of capes, projects, etc. doesn't seem to be as numerous. And the fact that the OS is installed in memory instead of on a CD card is a bonus.
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I wonder if there is cake?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I guess it depends on how many girls were working on the project. At my last job in an office full of them, hardly a week went by when there wasn't a cake-break for one reason or another. I miss that job - I miss the work there too.
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I was making a very unobvious reference to the Game Portal with the cube and the presence or absence of cake 
I currently work in the Biotech industry and the majority of my colleagues are young women (trying not to to rub my knees a la Vic Reeves when I say that).
We also have cake every other day and a cake cooking competition each year, which involves around 70 cakes being cooked and consumed in the space of a month.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Driving to work, the volume got cranked all the way up to the epic intro of Dire Straits - Money For Nothing[^]. 
My hearing has been kind of iffy since then 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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YOU SHOULDN"T PLAY YOUR RADIO SO LOUD! YOU MIGHT SUSTAIN PERMANENT HEARING LOSS. TURN IT DOWN YOU PUNK!
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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With all due respect, exceptions to this rule include almost any Dire Straits song, Layla, the solo in Hotel California (live), Europa (Santana), Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) and prolly several others. 
/ravi
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That is generally my rule of thumb when playing, but too many years of playing in small bars with large amplifiers has had a lasting effect.
It is a small blessing with a slight curse, it becomes very easy to shut other peoples chatter out, but I have on occaision missed stuff I should have heard.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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