Ugarte - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Damn... (Score 2) 129

by Ugarte on Friday January 27, 2012 @07:31PM (#38846459) Attached to: North Star May Be Wasting Away

Fucking magnets, so *that's* how they work!

Comment Damn... (Score 1) 129

by Ugarte on Friday January 27, 2012 @07:05PM (#38846201) Attached to: North Star May Be Wasting Away

that's going to suck when all our compasses stop working.

Comment Re:this is very old news. (Score 1) 132

by Ugarte on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @07:58PM (#38006686) Attached to: NASA Creates Super-Black Carbon Nanotube Coating

wow you're right... someone even made my very dumb joke about 2 years or so ago

Comment None more black (Score 1) 132

by Ugarte on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @07:50PM (#38006614) Attached to: NASA Creates Super-Black Carbon Nanotube Coating

One of the first uses will be the cover of the "Smell The Glove" re-issue

Comment Not again (Score 1) 71

by Ugarte on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @01:59PM (#37389490) Attached to: Amazon's Bezos Seeks Spacecraft Patents

Can we please just burn down the whole patent system and start over before it totally screws up another industry?

Comment Apparently... (Score 1) 139

by Ugarte on Thursday December 17, 2009 @07:07PM (#30480860) Attached to: 26 Gigapixel Photo Sets New World Record

their web server does not have 16 processors.

26 Gigapixel Photo Sets New World Record 139

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 17, 2009 @06:28PM from the stock-up-on-flash-memory dept.

FrenchSilk writes "The largest gigapixel photograph ever created with a DSLR camera was made by A.F.B. Media GmbH in Dresden, Germany. 1655 images, each 21.6 megapixels in size, were taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and a 400 mm lens over a period of 176 minutes. The images were stitched on a 16 processor system with 48GB of main memory, taking 94 hours to create the final result. The interactive view can be found here."

Comment For a gentle intro try "blinkybugs" (Score 2, Interesting) 136

by Ugarte on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @07:14PM (#27071061) Attached to: Good Robot Projects For K-5?

This is a really simple project, which can be found on Instructables, but one can also buy kits...

www.blinkybug.com

While it's a stretch to call them robots, they do interact in a way, and can help kids understand the basics of electricity and sensors. they antennae form a really simple spring switch, which triggers the blinking of their eyes (LEDs), and the body is a coin cell battery. I made some of these at a workshop at the Maker Faire a while ago.

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