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Dan Ros rigged his Big Mouth Billy Bass so that it quotes Homer Simpson, Bill Clinton, and characters from Monty Python's The Holy Grail:
The star of the show is the mbed chipset, and in fact that’s Dan Ros’ real motivation. Priced at $60 (for a limited, introductory period; normal price $100), the mbed has an ARM Cortex M3 core, ethernet, USB, serial and other connections, and drag-and-drop loading of binary instruction files. It’s intended for rapid prototyping, as you can see in the second video below, and has just gone on sale today.
He also arranged for the fish to speak whatever is tweeted to him:
The Twittering Billy hack replaces his existing brain with an mbed Microcontroller, wiring it up to his motors so we have control of his movements, an SD card so he can store lots of audio files, and the mbed's Ethernet interface to the internet. What might be surprising is that Billy is not connected to a PC; everything is being done by the mbed Microcontroller and a connection to the internet!
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Image: Dan Ros
Comments (6)
Where do we get ours?
Really? Cmon now.
Hey, it's just one little girl. The government panel decided she doesn't need a nose job. Next!
Come on. It's one little girl. So what?
Health care is a joke, being disabled myself I can't get a simple tooth pulled because dental ahs to be emergency surgery only, but I can get my teethy cleaned once a year. Go figure.
This woman is a trooper.
"Karma hits everyone. You pay for what you do," said Steltz. "I don't care if it's that day or 30 years from then or whatever. And in my opinion, I got the karma for all the guns."
Get ready folks, it is coming and you will hate it.
Yep, it's just a little girl's face. No reason for a government bureaucrat to approve the procedure at all.
Humphrey, the sooner you get some brains over there, the better. She already is on public health care, moron. It was public health care that has denied her treatment. And this is how it will soon be for all of us here. Great, huh?
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
“Cosmetic”?!? Just another example of how insurance companies have waaaaaay too much control over medical procedures."
Uhh, trish? Yeah, that's not an insurance company policy. That's the Oregon State public healthcare plan - supposedly a model for how the Democrat's plan should work. So I guess if you want that to pass, you better hope you never get shot in the face.