Ocean Sea Monster

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OCEAN SEA MONSTER
Real or a clever hoax, we don't know. Every year people swimming in the ocean mysteriously disappear, never to be found again.

Most often, it's blamed on shark attacks, and rogue killer waves, but not every disappearance is caused by sharks or waves. Recently, a wave of strange sea creatures were documented but perhaps this ocean sea monster is among the strangest. The body of this creature was offered up for sale on Ebay!

Take a look at what may lurk in the ocean. A friendly fish? We think not! Looking at those giant monster carnivorous teeth tells the rest of the story as this ferocious appearing beast may have a diet of more than soft seaweed.

Sources flip back and forth from real to fake. From the Source: "In fact, the "creature" is a sculpture by Tampa Bay artist Juan Cabana. Mr Cabana has created an entire menagerie of mermaids, sea monsters and aliens, some of which he offers for sale on eBay under the name "seamystery". This particular "Sea Monster" was the subject of an eBay auction in June 2006. The same photographs that are now circulating were included in the eBay description of the item."

At Ebay, this is the seller's description, who claims it's real: "I was taking my usual walk down a local beach here in Tampa Florida when I came upon this very strange fish on the shoreline. There was a crowd of seagulls nearby but no matter how hungry they seemed to be they would not get near this sea monster. After making sure it was dead, I picked it up to further examine it. Nearby, a woman, who was the only other person on the beach this day, asked out loud if it was a dead shark. Clutching the strange sea creature in my hand, I walked towards her so she could have a better look at this freak of nature. As I got closer to her, she told me to stop. With a look of horror on her face, she quickly turned and left the area."

"Afterwards I decided to take it home with me. I measured this cryptid creature at 20 inches long. I decided to list this weird & wonderfull fish on ebay to share it with the world. I guarantee that this creatures flesh, teeth, jaw and skull are REAL 100% once living, organic flesh and bones. Though mummified, this unknown species of fish has been cleaned and treated with taxidermy chemicals to preserve and reduce any fish odor to a mininum. The winner to this auction will recieve the exact same fish pictured below. This auction is not a joke and there is no trick photography here. One does not find Sea Monsters up for auction very often. Think of the stories you could tell to friends, customers or crowds. Such a creature deserves to be in a museum for many people to enjoy. This auction is open to all countries of the world..."

Mobile Transport Lab 56

MOBILE TRANSPORT LAB 56
No Parent Country
The Mobile Transport Lab MTL is one that can remain in flight without a parent country. The Mobile Transport Lab was flown over the North Pole and collected data. This is a mobile science and technology lab for travel. It represents a more modern version of the original Transport Lab Facility (TLF). New items include a smart phone computer and monitor with many digital scientific apps for scientific lab analysis, multiple cameras, a CCD, and Space Telescope. Classification: 2013 Mobile Transport Lab 56 (no parent country)

Propeller 2

PROPELLER 2
Parallax prepares to introduce the new Propeller 2 chip to supplement the very successful Propeller 1 chip.

Specs here:
http://www.parallaxsemiconductor.com/Products/propeller2specs

Factoid #1
It's interesting to note, if the Big Brain used Propeller 2 chips instead of Propeller 1 chips, instead of having 100,000 V processors, the number would rise to one million.

Factoid #2
The speed, at 1600 MIPs per chip, would run at standard clock speed of 160,000 MIPs per hundred chips comparing to clock enhanced 20,000 MIPs with Propeller 1.

Factoid #3
It is not know if Supertronic enhancements will apply to the architecture of the Propeller 2 chip. If they do apply, the speed could increase to around 2 million MIPs per 100 quantity which pushes it closer to supercomputing status. (2,000,000,000,000 instructions per second)

Download more information here
Propeller2DetailedPreliminaryFeatureList-v2.0.pdf

Supertronic Spin Brain

Standard Propeller chip specs

SUPERTRONIC SPIN BRAIN
The Supertronic Spin Brain is a regular Spin Brain made Supertronic. Supertronic enhances each Parallax Propeller chip to a higher speed level and more processors.

The following lists shows specs for the standard Spin Brain and the new Supertronic Spin Brain. The Supertronic Spin Brain is 13.6 times faster and has 472 more processors in the maxed config. Cores (Cogs), GPIO, RAM/ROM, VProc, and cost remains the same. The Standard Spin Brain programs will run on the Supertronic Spin Brain, and the new commands of the Supertronic Spin Brain will run on the Standard Spin Brain when configured to do so.

Standard Spin Brain Overclocked 200MIPs/Chip

Prop  Cost   Core  VProc    Total   MIPS    GPIO  RAM/ROM(K)
001   $008   008   001000   001008  00200   0032   000064
002   $016   016   002000   002016  00400   0064   000128
003   $024   024   003000   003024  00600   0096   000256
004   $032   032   004000   004032  00800   0128   000512
005   $040   040   005000   005040  01000   0160   001024
010   $080   080   010000   010080  10000   0320   010240
100   $800   800   100000   100800  20000   3200   102400

Supertronic Spin Brain
Prop  Cost  Core  VProc   Total   MIPS    GPIO  RAM/ROM(K)
001   $008  0032  001000  001032  002720  0032  000064 
002   $016  0064  002000  002064  005740  0064  000128
003   $024  0096  003000  003128  008160  0096  000256
004   $032  0128  004000  004256  010880  0128  000512
005   $040  0160  005000  005512  013600  0160  001024
010   $080  0320  010000  010320  027200  0320  010240
100   $800  3200  100000  103200  272000  3200  102400

The Final Frontier - Not!

THE FINAL FRONTIER - NOT!
Space in this universe is not the final frontier. Space will open up new frontiers to new dimensions. Already science has proven the existence of dimensions that are beyond our own. 

Quantum dynamics is just beginning to explore the unknown. Science has also shown that things lie beyond our universe with intense gravity. Black holes and worm holes allow portals in time. General understanding is now that the Multiverse point of view is reasonable.

Cherry Pie Tiny Super Computer Wannabe

MANUFACTURED BY HUMANOIDO LABS
CHERRY PIE: TINY SUPER COMPUTER WANNABE
It's finally here - Cherry Pie, a Tiny Super Computer Wannabe, for hobbyists and students who can't afford 55 million dollars for the real thing but want to build their own smaller working version for experimenting, learning, having fun and play.

The Cherry Pie attempts to use techniques to super-size your existing Propeller chips, multiply their "Cogs" and make a computing machine with more power, function and intrigue! Cherry Processors are less than a penny each!

INTRO & STATS
This is a cute tiny parallel platform almost like the big supercomputers on the Top 500 List. It has lots of parallel cores, multi-threaded processors, it's own fully functional real time operating system RTOS (for thousands of cherry processors) and interfaces galore for nearly every imaginable configuration (parallel, serial, full duplex, half duplex, party line, one wire, etc.). It's simple, homey, and a lot like cherry pie in likeability.

TECHNOLOGY
Cherry Pie is based on technology developed for the Spin Brain which has filtered down from the actual Big Brain that turned Supercomputer last year. These Tiny Wannabe Super Computers are fully operational, function in parallel, and have wee-tiny output monitors on each chip for experiments on a budget.

— We expect these will go like hotcakes once the schools discover they're a learning bonanza substitute for the real thing. —

— Educators state, switching to Cherry Pie <tiny super computer wannabe>, 55 million dollars or 55 dollars was an easy choice for students and the university' curriculum —

PRICING
They're almost a dime a dozen, though you'll still need to purchase from one to five Parallax Multi Core chips at about $7.99 each. But you can start with one chip and "supersize" its eight RISC cores to super computer stuffins classification, then add more chips as your wallet grows in increments of $7.99. This is about a dollar a hard core or CPU. Not bad! Throw in handful of common components from the electronic parts store and you should be ready to get started immediately! But wait! There's more! The cost of a single Cherry processor drops to less than a penny.

AMORTIZING
The amortized cost is far less. The enhanced Propeller chip rises from 8 RISC cores to a combined 1008 processors. Running five chips provides a total of 5,040 Cherry processors. As each chip is $7.99, the amortized cost per Cherry processor is only $.008 - not even a full penny per processor!

SPEED
The speed is also tiny. You'll need to pretend the actual thousand MIPs rating is thousands of times faster. But don't worry, we have several ways to load up the chips with enhancements that make this tiny machine "function" more like an actual supercomputer. With your hair flung back from hairspray and the fallout-wind of this tiny slick supercomputer wannabe, it's sure to be a win-win situation.

WANNABE
Wannabe is good - and not a bad thing, as proven by Daniel Hammer, professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He's reportedly working with artificial cells made from polymers, which can mimic the ease with which white blood cells travel through the body. These could deliver drugs directly where they're needed, making it easier and safer to fight off certain diseases, including cancer.

ADVANTAGES 
Cherry Pie has advantages. It doesn't need the support team of a lunar landing. It doesn't need a large room or entire building to hold it. It doesn't result in a monthly electric bill more costly than purchasing a house.

LINKS
SPIN BRAIN
BIG BRAIN
PARALLAX
PROPELLER CHIP P8x32A-D40
PROP PLUG 32201

to be continued

Temporary Humanoido Lab in Seoul South Korea

Source Map of Asia, Korea, Japan, China

TEMPORARY HUMANOIDO LAB IN SEOUL SOUTH KOREA
Humanoido Labs is preparing to set up a temporary Summer-time laboratory in Seoul South Korea.

The primary purpose of the new lab is short term humanoid robot science study and technology related. It will include secondary studies in robotics, Korean language for humanoid programming, and culture. Assessment will also include a daytime and nighttime observatory to examine the sky for particulates content and to determine a rating for astronomical observations and various related space science endeavors. The lab will conduct meetings, study various locations, perform scientific studies, do exploration, and formulate conclusions. Enroute, the Humanoido Portable In-Transit Lab will also be in effect.

The rise of the humanoid robot is more pronounced in the Asian arena. Key humanoid robotics players include almost every major country in Asia. South Korea has introduced competitive humanoids in the market place, in competitions and captured first time records of walking and highly functional products.

In the past, Humanoido Labs established both long term and short term labs in the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Indonesia, Macao, and other locations. A mobile transit lab also exists that can remain in flight without a parent country. A Mobile Transport Lab was flown over the North Pole and collected data. The Big Brain Initiative, USA - Ultra Space Administration, DSC - Deep Space Center, are divisions of Humanoido Laboratories.

HUMANOIDO LABS LINKS
The First Humanoido Lab
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/01/the-first-humanoido-lab.html
Humanoido Labs List
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/06/humanoido-labs-list.html
Construction Lab
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/12/construction-lab.html
Big Brain Consolidation Lab
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/06/big-brain-consolidation-lab.html
Update Laboratory
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/01/update.html 
Temporary Humanoido Lab in Seoul South Korea
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/06/temporary-humanoido-lab-in-seoul-south.html

Spin Brain

The Spin Brain prototype is wired for L-testing

SPIN BRAIN
From Humanoido Labs, the Spin Brain is the latest incarnation in the popular series of single board brains for robots, humanoids, and control projects.

The new type of machine brain accommodates from 1 up to 5 props. The charts list a 5.00 Mhz crystal for performance up to 800 MIPs in parallel.

— The introductory Spin Brain may be converted into a Supertronic Spin Brain with enhancements for more speed enabling a theoretical  config to 13,600 MIPs and a total processor count of 5,512 - see Supertronic postings for more information —

Typical config begins with a 5Mhz crystal deploying the Loader Chip. RC configs provide the lowest power consumptions for battery operated experiments while crystals enable the highest speed performances. The chart below lists a board populated with various chip numbers from one up to five. The cost per chip is given, with the total number of Cogs/ Cores. Next is the count for VP processors followed by the total number of hard and soft processors. Given is the theoretical MIPs and the total number of I/O ports. Loaded with demo exampling software, the Spin Brain is the smallest most complete portable brain designed thus far.

PERFORMANCE & INTERFACING
The Spin Brain is based on the Parallax Propeller chip and handles both thinking and controlling for humanoid robots and robotic systems. The Brain is designed to think in parallel for greatest performance. All chips have a method to communicate in parallel via a simple one wire interface. Extreme power is derived from parallel operations and the use of a parallel algorithm which divides a problem into chunks for parallel solving. Programming is in Propeller Spin language.

FUNDAMENTAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE FIRST SPIN BRAIN

Prop  Cost   Core   VP      Total   MIPS    GPIO
1     $08    08     1000    1008    0160    032
2     $16    16     2000    2016    0320    064
3     $24    24     3000    3024    0480    096
4     $32    32     4000    4032    0640    128
5     $40    40     5000    5040    0800    160

SAMPLE PARTS LIST
05 - Propeller Chip (1 to 5)
01 - Motherboard
01 - 32K eeprom
01 - eeprom socket
05 - Prop sockets
01 - 5Mhz Crystal
10 - Decoupling Capacitors .1uf
05 - Voltage Dropping Resistors 1K
01 - EEPROM Resistor
05 - LED
01 - Roll Wire
03 - 3300uf 16V Filtering Capacitor Electrolytic
03 - 10uf 16V Filtering Capacitor Electrolytic
05 - Propeller Labels
01 - 3 pin programming connector
01 - Battery holder
01 - Battery CR123A
 
STARTER SPIN BRAIN SOFTWARE
Spin Brain RTOS - Real Time Operating System
Loader - Load code into all chips at once
Enumerator - Auto address each chip
EViewer - LED displays chip enumeration 
Enhancer - Create 1000 VPs per chip
VP Demo - 1,000 operating programs per chip
Parallel Algorithm - Parallel solution algorithm
Evo Demo - Chip evolution example
Binaries - As announced 
Spin Brain Manual - Spin Brain Details
 
BRAIN DIAGRAM

CHIP1  CHIP 2  CHIP3  CHIP4  CHIP5
|______|_______|______|______|_____  PARALLEL INTERFACE
 __________________________________  PROGRAMMER INTERFACE
O      O       O      O      O       OUTPUT DISPLAY (LEDS)
<>     <>      <>     <>     <>      32 PIN I/O BUS

BACKGROUND
The humanoid brain project began in 2002, to develop a powerful brain for mobile humanoid robots. This led to the Big Brain being introduced August 5th, 2010. The past 2 years have seen the most progress with objectives to decrease physical brain size, decrease electrical power requirements, introduce powerful enhancements, and develop a standardized software package. Numerous challenges were faced and solved regarding wiring, power requirements, electrical noise, portability, timing, loading, distributing, interfacing, enhancing, developing parallel algorithms, making the software work, debugging, etc. etc. There are undoubtedly hidden refinements needed that will arise as we continue to develop the Spin Brain.

SOFTWARE
Software is not free. Its development has run the course of three years. To run code, a Spin Brain is needed. This is being developed as a potential market product. When it reaches beta stage, testers will try it. If you’re interested in beta testing a brain and its software, reply to the blog announcement and I will contact you at that time and make package arrangements. On the other hand, if you want a finished and refined product, purchases can be made when it’s released. Video demonstrations may be released to demo the software.

Only the prototype exists now, however, playing continues with many possibilities of the Spin Brain as a potential future product. It's a Big Brain with a handful of enhanced Propeller chips in parallel. It demonstrates basic principles by taking some exampling characteristics of a supercomputer, in particular the notion of larger multiples of relatively simple processors communicating over a common bus, each doing a portion of a task in parallel.

A task can be prepared it so it's properly divided up into parallel chunks allowing each processor to run full throttle, with simultaneous calculations, and then assembling the bits into a single result upon completion. Programming will minimize speed compromise when the calculation process is interrupted for a memory dump or output operation when dealing with very long strings of numbers.

Fake Supercomputer

FAKE SUPERCOMPUTER

The Fake Supercomputer is an interim project that transitions one project to another. The idea is to construct a small low cost portable computer that has many of the functions and architecture of a supercomputer, for the purposes of learning the realm of the parallel world. The actual fake super computer is a fully working model that includes enhancements to the Propeller chip, adds more processors and speed, adds special software, and provides a powerful programming environment.

Initially, the FS was designed to have 1 to 25 Parallax Propeller chips in the Supertronic config. In the limit condition, the (25*2,720 MIPs) 68,000 MIPs machine would run in parallel and have a total of (25*32) 800 hard wired processors plus  25,000 VP processors for a total of 25,800 processors. The standard package would include the loader, enumerator, enhancer, parallel algorithm, and RTOS. In advanced versions, the RTOS is already incorporated with the enhancer.

By comparison, the Big Brain was measured at 100 Propeller chips before expansion. Speed enhancements apply with Supertronic giving 100 chips x 2,720 MIPs = 272,000 MIPs, and 100 chips x 32 hard processors = 3,200 hard wired processors + 100,000 VP processors, giving a total of 103,200 processors.

Propeller Mini Microcontroller

THE PROPELLER MINI
The Propeller Mini by Parallax is a tiny but powerful microcontroller computer with 8 cores and a very small footprint.

A tiny .81 x 1.52-inches

The current $24.99 cost is the same as a Proto Board, the lowest cost complete Propeller board offered by Parallax at this time. The footprint is about the same size as BASIC Stamp module.

The Propeller chip is the heart of the Big Brain Supercomputer at Humanoido Labs.

 




 













































FEATURES

• Propeller P8X32A-M44 multi-core microcontroller 
• 32KB EEPROM program storage 
• 5V 1A, 3.3V 400 mA regulators
• Removable 5 MHz crystal
• Access to 19 digital I/O
• 3.3 VDC regulated output @ 400 mA max
• 5 VDC regulated, 600 mA max
• Voltage requirement: Regulated 6.5–12 VDC though VIN
• Dimensions: 0.81 x 1.52 in (20.5 x 38.6 mm)
• Operating temp range: -40 to +185 °F (-40 to +85 °C)
•  Prop Plug #32201 is required for programming (not included)

Propeller Mini Product Guide v1.1 (.pdf)
Propeller Mini Schematic (.pdf)

BSS BASIC Stamp Supercomputer

The BASIC Stamp "Super Computer" BSS
PART 1

The BASIC Stamp Supercomputer is now 5 years of age, since it was introduced to the community in 2008. Let's revisit this machine and see exactly what's happened recently.

This is the Lab's first large scale parallel designed super computing experimental workhorse and testbed that was used for testing and years of experimenting prior to the Big Brain. This new series of posts will detail how it was built, evolved, and what it can do in terms of demonstrations and paving the way for more super machines.

The BSS led to at least fifteen more super computers (see genealogy) and evolved from the use of multiple single-core BASIC Stamp modules into multiple eight-core Propeller chips. It has led to the current supercomputer with over 100,000 processors. The BSS paved the path, enabling parallel computing and making the Big Brain possible.

Resources

http://www.p-robot.com/
http://www.p-robot.com/index.php/basic-stamp-supercomputer.html
Download software (22 programs)
Self Adjusting Master Code (New!)
Read the article in Penguin Tech 4
View the Schematic (page 6)
Watch the movie
Parallax Source Basic Stamp Supercomputer

BSS 22.zip‎ (55.6 KB) Software Downloads

(NOTE: This is a demonstration of basic principles to take some characteristics of a supercomputer, in particular the notion of larger multiples of relatively simple processors communicating over a common bus, each doing a portion of a task in parallel)




Edition 4 of Penguin Tech Magazine featured the BSS Supercomputer

My Supercomputer! I got the idea to make a model supercomputer at the basic hobby level to demonstrate the concept. It's super fast compared to single BASIC stamp, but be forewarned, it only beats out the worlds fastest supercomputers in ten other categories!

* Smaller
* Lighter
* Portable
* Field Operable
* Runs on Batteries
* Has the Greatest Number of (I/O)
* Has the greatest Number of Sensors/Variety
* Lowest Power Consumption
* Lowest Unit Cost
* Easiest to Program

It's a simple hobby project for fun and experimentation, using 11 Parallax Basic Stamp microcontrollers. (It was later expanded to 12, then 22 stamps). These "computers" are connected together for hardware/software clustered parallel processing. It's a fantastic learning tool and can control 176 peripherals/sensors. One application is for the more rapid development of robotic sensors and software.

it.youtube.com/watch?v=huukEEwy-3E
Some tips on watching the youtube vid. Select "Watch in high quality." Turn off sound, let the vid load in first by leaving for a break. When you come back, it will be loaded, turn up the sound, and watch it. It will run smoothly.

This is the World's First talking Basic Stamp Hobby Supercomputer!!! (and the World's 1st Supercomputer built from hobby microcontrollers) It communicates by English and Chinese voice (EMIC TTS board), lights (21 LEDs), vision, sound (12 speakers), motion (PIR), ports (176), infrared, Vibra Tab Mass detector, accelerometer, temperature chip, ultrasonics [PING)))], LCD Liquid Crystal Display, and a tiny uOLED color monitor. Attachments include a keyboard, 3D space mouse, and other goodies under development.


Final Rack Wiring Phase and Grounding Field Experiment

There's 22 switches, 11 are toggle and 11 are pushbutton. Fully loaded, it's only a few pounds weight, so it's very portable. The only concern is one wire popping off, as the breadboards, as handy as they are for rapid proto, are less than permanent. I prefer to keep it this way as the entire supercomputer can be disassembled for moving and for international travel.

It uses a one wire interface and has unlimited computer expansion. Additional stamps connect to the interface by routing only P0, Vdd, and Vss. It can be operated on batteries or a power supply. The basic boards only draw 18 to 30ma each. Even with attachments, such as the EMIC text to speech board (peaks at 157ma while talking) and the uOLED color monitor (peaks at 52ma), the current draw of all boards average around 340 ma. Computer 9 starts talking and the hive peaks at 360 ma.


All boards and sensors are shown working, drawing 311 ma at 9-volts DC. Eleven programs are running in parallel, controlling multiple sensors at the same time.

It runs well on batteries. I have used 11 zinc carbon batteries which cost about 29 cents each. It may be advisable to use alkaline batteries for the uOLED and EMIC as these draw more current. The uOLED can be programmed to consume less current, based on the colors it displays.

Individual Basic Stamps are able to switch on and off, for various special configurations. For example, a quick test of a sensor on one computer is possible just by toggling a switch and running software. Board combinations can also be run, for example, in combining sensors from computers #2, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 11.

Software sets up a Master Computer MC that's in charge of the remaining workers. The Master, or Boss, decides how to handle business, when to talk, who should talk, how to talk, and what to talk. In summary, it queries the Workers to gain data and information, which can be computational related or sensor related. With the 11-Stamp configuration, there are 10 worker programs and 1 Master program running in parallel. The hardware parallel computer cluster runs in parallel also. This can achieve some incredible power, especially when considering the availability of 176 ports, many of which can contain sensors and circuits.


Earlier wiring stage, showing use of clips to hold
boards and wiring

The youtube video shows all 11 computers communicating. You will see the Master send out individual "wake-up" calls to the computers it wishes to speak to. For example, to wake up computer 8, it sends out "c8." Computer 8 will respond by saying, "I'm computer eight." It lets the Master know when it has finished data transfer by sending its signature, a c8. All computers can simultaneously perform calculations and take sensor readings, however, they must report their data to the Master one at a time.

A nice feature is the LCD that monitors traffic on the supernet. The LED Traffic Monitor is connected to the supernet without any computer requirement. It runs by itself, although its formatting is best controlled by Stamp PBASIC. It's quite fascinating to sit back and watch these computers talk back and forth to each other.

Supercomputer Self Diagnostics SSD are also built into the software. At startup, the LED array bus bar lights a single LED data light for each of the working computers, and a piezo speaker provides check data from an alternate pin. This routine works well for immediately knowing which computer is available and ready. Troubleshooting, for debugging software purposes, is a gold mine. There's access up to 21 LED data lights, LCD text and numerical output, Piezo sound pin data, and uOLED monitor output for text streaming and numerical data logging output information.


Three bus lines - Data LEDs, Toggle
Switches, and Power Control are made
from clothes hangers machined with a
hobby tool.

There are 10 workers and one master. The master handles the parallel network traffic and polls workers for information. I originally planned 10 BS2 computers. Curiosity got the best of me when I wondered if other stamps could easily interface. The answer found was yes, when the 11th computer, a BS2px on a BOE, was connected. Most of the remaining computers are Basic Stamp HomeWork boards. I now have computer number 12, a BS2sx that I'm working with.

Why Build a Supercomputer? Here's some reasons:

• Learning experiences & challenges
• Expanding education & knowledge
• Gaining useful background for career
• Research Benefits
• Extending Basic Stamp power
• Creating new inventions, ideas, applications
• Own your own, prestige
• School project, credit
• Involvement, sense of great accomplishment
• Psychological relaxation, Symbolic Value
• Sharing, making new friends
 
A lengthy writeup appears, with plans, more photos, schematics, build instructions, and software, in Penguin Tech Magazine.

The BSS has led to many other styles and types of Basic Stamp Supercomputers, each with a specific purpose. It also led to many supercomputer Propeller platforms.

• Basic Stamp Supercomputer
• Handbook of Basic Stamp Supercomputing
• Stamp Seed Supercomputer
• A.I. for Basic Stamp Seed Supercomputer & TriCore
• 3D Stamp Computer
• Minuscule Stamp Supercomputer
• TriCore Stamp Supercomputer
• Penguin's Big Brain Supercomputer

BASIC Stamp Supercomputer
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=765140
1st hobby supercomputer using BASIC Stamps. Popularized putting together many processors to make a more powerful machine. Improved and upgraded to contain over 20 stamps.

Stamp SEED Supercomputer
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=817126
World’s 1st living stamp supercomputer. Ten Stamp processors - each is a life form. They are born, develop a unique personality, talk to neighbors, remember conversation, recall information, do work, nap, sleep, and dream. Includes wireless transceiver.

TriCore Stamp Supercomputer
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=822511
For testing and developing other supercomputers. Three Stamp processors = minimum requirement to test/ develop the Stamp SEED Supercomputer. Rapidly load/test multiple processor code. Includes lite version of life form code from Stamp SEED Supercomputer.

Minuscule Stamp Supercomputer
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=821451
Smallest possible supercomputer, lowest cost, increases power of one processor. Contains two processors. Used for testing/writing code related to connecting Stamps together, establishing baud rates, timing/syntax, and exploring various network configurations.

Tiny Stamp Supercomputer
Not released. The world's 1st first hand-held BASIC Stamp supercomputer. Absolutely most powerful, considering it has the smallest footprint with many tiny networked processors. Has its own book with 30 fun projects. Includes Architecture, Assembly, Programming, Tutorial, Applications, Complete Code. The TSS has multiple computers, LCD monitor, radio transmitter, receiver, speakers, breadboard real estate and a 64K EEPROM memory board, interfaced to a tiny Hub. The TSS Stamp supercomputer is so small, it will fit into a soup bowl or coat pocket. Includes special features such as hardware programming "on the fly."

Two-Stamp BASIC Stamp Supercomputer
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=765140
The wiring for connecting a BS2sx to a BS2px BASIC Stamp processor - how to amplify the power of one Stamp. This is entirely different from the Minuscule Stamp Supercomputer which uses different BASIC Stamp processors.

Handbook of Basic Stamp Supercomputing
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=841541
This book is written to answer many questions about hobby BASIC Stamp Supercomputers and offer a starting point for construction of your own Stamp Supercomputer. Includes apps and programming and many details to get you started immediately. Delves into Stamp Artificial Intelligence and many aspects of Stamp super computing. Electronic version is posted and available for download free of charge.

Penguin with 12 Brains (aka Penguin on Supercomputer)
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=765509
World's smartest Parallax Penguin Robot. In this project, Penguin's brain was connected to the BASIC Stamp Supercomputer. This created the potential to write 16,000 instructions, added all the resources of the Basic Stamp Supercomputer, 176 controlling ports, color uOLED display, green screen LCD, ultrasonic vision, presence sensors, memory, speech in English and Chinese.

Master Offloader Machine (MOM)
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=765140
The Master Offloader Machine was conceived from the need to offload intensive duties of the Master Computer in the BASIC Stamp Supercomputer (BSS). MOM was the first supercomputing project to show that connecting together multiple BASIC Stamp 1s and Stamp 2 flavors was possible. Contained ten processors.

3DSC (4 Dimensional Morphing Computer)
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=799604
World’s first 3D Stamp Computer to explore a multi-dimensional universe. Initially designed for simple space-time simulations. Includes three networked BASIC Stamp 1’s using Dx boards. Upgraded to include two servo-driven moving cores. Many applications developed for advanced hobbyists, students, teachers, designed for classrooms, high school Physics and advanced university level experiments with sound, light, time, motion, heat, etc. Upgraded with a Stamp 2 coprocessor.


http://www.p-robot.com/
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USA Ultra Space Administration

USA ULTRA SPACE ADMINISTRATION
The USA Ultra Space Administration is currently maintaining and stretching the power of its semi-cognitive supercomputer known as the Propeller Powered Big Brain which in turn is powering a series of extremely powerful telescopes and radical supporting machines.

The USA is also operating the Ultra Space Program, which is currently exploring Near Space with manned missions.

USA has taken on the study of black holes and created a set of new "monster" machines, radically designed to explore more of the universe and the potentialities that lie within itself and beyond its barrier.

A blog emanating from Humanoido Laboratories is maintained and distributes updates, reports on telescopes and new machines, logs various discoveries, keeps up to date with Ultra Space launches, describes findings from its space program, and lists new discoveries and innovations. It's also become a pool of ideas under development.

Reporting is expanded to include unusual and unexpected topics, suggestions for life and living, dangerous caveats, and items of humorous spin.

Other sections include science, experiments, electronics, programming, inventions and the Parallax Propeller chip.

A/C Air Conditioner Hopping

Air conditioner hopping to keep cool

AIR CONDITIONER HOPPING

WHEN IT'S SO HOT, YOU'RE GONNA DROP!

Global Warming has caused the weather to become so hot and humid that going outside is no longer reasonable. So rather than hide at home under the two air conditioners, a new plan is devised for going outside, called Air Conditioner Hopping. 

Learn the tips and techniques to surviving a journey into hot Hell when Global Warming will become your worst nightmare!

— global warming: your worst nightmare —

THE ART OF HOPPING
Hopping will give your home air conditioners a needed rest when you go out. Your electric billing will also be slightly reduced. First, map out a plan to your final destination. Note, the final destination must be indoors where a good air conditioner is fully functional. Walking outside is limited to only a few hundred feet.

COOL DOWN YOUR BODY
Next, crank up all your air conditioners on high and absorb all the coolness in your body until you are cold to the touch. You may want to put ice packs in your clothes pockets and drink some ice water. Prepare your bag with ice packets and carry it under your arm pressed onto your body. This preparation will generally give you a maximum of 20 minutes outside before you "thaw out."

METABOLIC RATE & SEX
Lower your metabolic rate by having good satisfying sex, or the alternatives of doing one hour of Tai Chi, a half hour of exercise bike, or Yoga indoors. A lowered relaxed metabolism will result in a lower heart rate, blood pumping through the veins at a slower rate and this equates to a cooler human engine.

SHADE & ICE
Warning! Do not become overheated. There is a serious risk of heat stroke and even death. If you are caught in the open, find shade immediately. Use an umbrella when walking to shield from the sun. If you must walk outside any appreciable distance, hold two frozen water bottles or ice cubes. When the water is almost completely thawed out, you may drink the cold water.

ELIMATE HOT WATER
Do excrete your hot water at a local facility and continue to drink cold water.

ATTIRE
Shorts and tshirt may be worn. Special fabric shirts have air flow sections in the pockets, along the back and sides, under the arms. A bug lotion may be necessary when in shaded areas and during the evening hours.

GOING AIR TO AIR
Next, briskly walk to the nearest corner and catch the air conditioned taxi. Go straight to your air conditioned destination. Do not walk in between departure and destination. Note, you may hop from one air conditioned location to another.

GOOD HUNTING
Upon arrival, find the air conditioner vent and stand next to it. Some vents closer to the air conditioner are cooler so browse around for the best vent. You may have access to the source. If so, stand in front of the actual air conditioner. 

DINING OUT
If you are eating in a restaurant, sit near or next to the air conditioner. The local patrons are very understanding when explaining you are overheated, and they may turn on the air conditioner for you, program it, increase the cooling, and aim the directional air fins directly on you. They may also find a fan for you, to your cool-down benefit.

STRANDED OUTSIDE
Should you become stranded outside for some reason, i.e. no available taxi, walk immediately to the nearest air conditioned store. Generally you may find a 711 store on every corner.

TOO HOT
If too hot and overheated, a friend will rub a coin on your back to release the heat. The science behind this voodoo is to open up the skin cells to circulate cooling air across the hot skin and transfer the heat away from the body.

NO AIR
Sometimes there is no air outside or inside, and sweating only makes you hotter, so use your tiny portable emergency electric fan or the larger manual paper Chinese fan until you reach destination. The larger the fan, the better. Yes, you can fan yourself when walking. (If you can chew gum and rub your tummy at the same time, then fanning while walking is a simple multi-task).

PORTABLE ELECTRIC FANS
The small electric fans run on two AA batteries and last only about 5 minutes. Switch to Lithium rechargeable batteries and this can increase fan time to 15 minutes. You can buy larger battery operated fans but they are not easy to carry around. They may be contained in a large bag with an extra set of batteries for maximum cooling.

FREEZER
When you reach the grocery store, pass by the air conditioner and go directly to the freezer food section where you can cool down more quickly. Some freezers are quite large and you may purposefully fit in though usually only partially so as not to draw attention to yourself. Do lean into the freezer and pretend to examine all the food. Take advantage of this.

FROZEN TIPS
As you walk along the freezer section, do place and drag your hands along the cold metal, glass, or feel the frozen food packages. Break off a chunk of ice or snow if possible and hold it. Do not eat it as it will be contaminated. Carry a small towel in your bag to dry yourself as necessary. Buy a bag of ice cubes and some water from the cooler.

EATING FOR A COOL BODY
Do not eat too much or your body will gain weight, retain more heat, and generate more heat due to more digestion. Certain beans can help keep the body cool. Eliminate fat from your body and diet. In hot climate countries, such as Taiwan, a special shirt fabric is invented that keeps the body cool. However, your size will need to be XXXS (very small!).

GLOBAL WARMING
You have no idea what humans are about to face. When the polar caps melt their ice, hot air will have no ice cooling mechanism, and the intensity of hot sunlight will no longer be reflected back into space. This will cause super heating of the Earth globally. Simply calorimetry thermal experiments show a minimum of +60 to +200 degree rise in temperatures with summertime peaks reaching and maintaining oven-like temperatures.

FUTURE
In the future, energy sources are required to cool the air with air conditioners and possible new sources of coolants. Space taps into the cold of outer space may be needed to survive using space program technology. Mixing chemicals and elements to create freeze material such as dry ice and liquid nitrogen may be needed to supply giant coolers. Some humans will find off-planet solutions (i.e. move to Mars). All of this will come at a price.

Black Hole Supercomputer VS Inference Engine Telescope

Black Hole by NASA's supercomputer (simulation)

Black Hole by USA's Inference Engine Telescope (actual view)

COMPARING THE NASA BLACK HOLE SUPERCOMPUTER MODEL WITH OUR LAB'S ACTUAL INFERENCE ENGINE TELESCOPE'S VIEW

Surprising similarities exist between the simulated view of a black hole (at top) created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center supercomputer, and our Ultra Space Administration's (USA) Inference Engine Telescope's actual view.

Visible in both views are two vast modulated photon rings, transitioning material, and a very distinctive and clearly visible Event Horizon. The two black hole projects were completely independent of each other.

The IET Telescope is operated by the Big Brain, a semi-cognitive supercomputer at Humanoido Laboratories, home of USA Ultra Space Administration and the DSC Deep Space Center.

The USA is a subdivision of the Big Brain Initiative which posted the telescope view on Monday, May 20th, 2013. The NASA results were posted by Yahoo News on Monday, June 17th, 2013.

Imaging black holes has remained an interest of the Big Brain Initiative since the induction of the ULT Ultra Space Telescope, and the trailing telescopes in the series of extremely powerful telescopes.

LINKS
New Expert Inference Engine
IET Inference Engine Telescope Construction
IET Inference Engine Telescope First Light  
Inference Engine Icon
Black Hole's Guts Modeled in Supercomputer Simulation

Creating A Super Human In the Lab

CREATING A SUPER HUMAN IN THE LAB
The Lab's proprietary technology has grown in leaps and bounds, making possible the construction of a Cyborg Human, also known as the Augmented Human. This super human can do things that no normal human can do.

Although implants can empower a human, so can non-invasive attachments. The Lab has chosen to go the non-invasive route, making replacements, battery changes, add-ons and upgrades easy to do without surgery. Some may arguable state such means can be the foundation of super powers. Others will say this brings man closer to the Singularity of becoming one with the machine. Many of these new developed super powers are merely strap on with Velcro. Let's take a look at these new Lab technologies and how they can be used to achieve super human qualities.

— the enhanced human is a step towards the singularity of man and machine —

VISION
The Variable Visioner VV is a device controlled by small optics. Depending on the position of the eye's pupil, a selection menu is activated. The menu has variable focus lens control for microscope vision, reading vision, normal vision, distance vision, and telescope vision. An upgrade to the VV device enables night vision, thermal vision, and a few extras we dare not talk about.

MEMORY
The Mega Memory device MM primarily allows the human to retain a specific amount of specialized supplemental memory in addition to what the human brain can supply. The memory has instant recall and can be changed or expanded.

STRENGTH
The Super Strength device SS is a wearable robotic unit designed to enhance the strength of a specific limb. The first version is non-battery operated using the fundamentals of mechanics to increase power.

HEARING
The Humongous Hearing device HH is a wearable electronic unit that can amplify sounds not normally heard by humans. It's electronics can make a selectable frequency response for zeroing in on specific sound such as a specific person talking in a room of many sounds.

TOUCH
The Titan Touch device TT is a sender recoverable unit that can extend the touch sense of a human to greater distances. Released from a wearable belt, the device flies out distancing itself from the human, to gather sensory information. The sensory information can include remote vision, remote hearing, and remote touch.

SEX
The Super Sex device SS has both male and female versions. The male wearable version allows the insertion of the male organ into a prosthetic with super powers, enabled by motors, batteries and shape shifting morphables, to accomplish multiple tasks at will. The female version is a scalable all surrounding gripper that can shape shift and super titillate its containment. It can adjust the amount of pressure at the base of its containment, thus allowing greater longevity of the act while simultaneously increasing its thrusting potential.

ENERGY
The Enormous Energy device EE is a concocted combination of ingested elements designed to quickly enable energy to the biological human. It contains a quickly assimilated safe legal fluid with energy expanding athletic enabling ingredients and the ability to function longer before sleep.

ANCILLARY
A package of Adaptive Ancillary devices AA are used for specific purposes and enhancements. These are contained in the belt pockets and drawn out quickly for function. Possible sets include projective devices, projectiles, sensors, protectors, enhancers and other items. This can include items of high strength materials, light, magnetism, electricity and mechanics, and may include miniature wenches, stun devices, lights, IR, Ultrasonics, flying and swarming robots, etc.