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Mind Machine Project

Robots Podcast #81: Newton Howard, Mind Machine Project

In Episode #81, released July 1st, Robots Podcast interviews Newton Howard, director of MIT's Mind Machine Project. From the Mind Machine Project website: The high-level goal of the Mind Machine project is to reconcile natural intelligence with machine intelligence, and in doing so develop and engineer a class of intelligent machines. The content of the interview ranges from mistakes made in the field of AI up to date, smart materials, the importance of understanding the brain to recreate intelligence, to hopes that this understanding will lead to breakthroughs in the medical field.
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Quadrator Control

Quadrotor control via Kinect - ETH Flying machines arena

July 2, 2011

Another stunt from the quadcopters of ETH Zurich Flying machines arena. This time a Kinect sensor is implemented in order to translate body movements and gestures to direct control of the quad. This demo is the result of a ETH Zurich Bachelor Thesis by Armin Ambühl, supervised by Sergei Lupashin and Raffaello D'Andrea.

The CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering

The CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering

The uniqueness of this publication lies in the information on heat transfer and fluid mechanics including in-depth coverage on numerical and computer methods, applications, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. It is sure to serve as a comprehensive resource for professional engineers well into the new millennium. A portion of the material will be drawn from the "Handbook of Mechanical Engineering," but with expanded information in a variety of areas including Compressible Flow and Pumps, Conduction, Desalination, and more.

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http://rapidshare.de/files/20320181/Kreith__Frank_-_The_CRC_Handbook_of_Thermal_Engineering__CRC_Press__2000_.rar

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http://rapidshare.de/files/20912936/KREITH__F.__1999_._The_CRC_Handbook_of_Thermal_Engineering.rar