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Steven Pinker on the computational theory of mind and evolutionary psychology. Our mental faculties assume a world like that of our ancestors. Pinker describes some of the tricks our minds do, which helped us in the natural world, but can lead to maladaptive behaviour in the modern world. From a conference in 1998 called Der Digitale Planet (The Digital Planet, I guess), which also included Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Jared Diamond and Douglas Adams. Links follow: Douglas Adams: www.youtube.com Richard Dawkins: www.youtube.com Daniel Dennett: www.youtube.com Jared Diamond: www.youtube.com Found here (at the bottom): www.reitstoen.com Direct link to video (real media): www.web-for-vision.com

Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks to Bre Pettis, and Zach Hoeken about their new company, MakerBot Industries (www.makerbot.com), building open source robot kits that allow you to do rapid prototyping and 3D Printing at home. Music Can Opener by The Discoghosts www.upitup.com For an extra piece of fun from this shoot, go watch Ellie and the Flaming Bunny! www.youtube.com

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www.prototekmanufacturing.com Dennis Rocheford from Prototek Sheetmetal Manufacturing LLC is interviewed, discussing how Prototek achieves such rapid turnaround in such a short time period, scaling from two weeks to a single day! We carry a large stock of sheet metal, metal tube, pipe, blocks, hardware, and much more. We do all processes in house, including painting, powder coating, silkscreening, anodizing, chromating, machining, SLA (stereolithography apparatus, meaning 3D printing), and laser etching. Sheet Metal www.prototek.com SLA www.rapid3dprototypes.com CNC www.prototekmachining.com

This is a 3-part series. Part 1: www.youtube.com Part 2: www.youtube.com Part 3: www.youtube.com StickOS is an MCU-resident rapid prototyping and education environment for highly integrated MCUs. It makes the internal MCU functionality trivially available to a large class of users who don’t otherwise want to become MCU experts. Literally in minutes, hobbyists, researchers, and students can have useful embedded systems up and running, taking advantage of all of the MCU integrated peripheral functionality, as well as Zigbee wireless functionality, without ever understanding traditional MCU I/O registers or software development environments. StickOS is flashed onto the MCU once, and from then on the user can control the MCU thru a USB, Ethernet, or Zigbee interface using just a terminal emulator. Internal to the MCU is an entire resident StickOS BASIC programming environment (including an easy-to-use editor, compiler, flasher, and debugger), where external pins are mapped to special “pin variables” for manipulation or examination, and internal peripherals are managed by BASIC control statements and interrupt handlers. When coupled with an MC1320x Zigbee wireless transport, the MCU may be remotely controlled through another MCU, via a telnet/rlogin-like interface, eliminating the need for a direct USB or Ethernet connection to the host computer. Additionally, BASIC programs can access variables remotely from other MCUs, enabling the use of “remote pin variables” or other …

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This video was taken at the Hannover Fair 2010. It shows how to do rapid prototyping directly out of NX using the HP DesignJet 3D Printer. www.siemens.com/NX www.alphacam.de www.teilefabrik.de