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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Big Brain Timeline

One partition of the Big Brain. Other partitions filled the entire floor.

Artificial machine intelligence is here
BIG BRAIN TIMELINE - 

FORUM ERA

Over at the Space1 web site, a developed Space1 Timeline is posted which details the work accomplished in the great space tourism adventure. Now it's time for the Big Brain to have a simplified version of its own timeline.

Jan. 1, 2002 The Big Brain project began with the design and construction of smaller processor machines. The first was a parallel 2 multiprocessor brain inside a humanoid robot that quickly grew to 5 processors. Other machines were built including the UltraSpark Tower of Power with 320 processors and the Massive T1 Transposition Machine. For a chronology of these machines, see Genealogy and their respective web pages.

Big Brain Development


The first 14 months Summarized from 08-06-2010 to 11-26-2011 (Forum Era)

Aug. 6, 2010 First blog about the big brain

Sept. 17, 2010 Work begins on a Big Brain faster than its chip rating

November 19th, 2010 More than one interface begins

November 19th, 2010 Big Brain Stem Announced

November 20th, 2010 1st Hybrid Brain Processor Expansion

September 21st, 2010 More than one Brain begins development

November 20th, 2010 Growth takes on more languages

December 21, 2010 Brain Base grows

December 24th, 2010 Brain guts transform into uncontrollable growing Blob with 5 boards

December 24th, 2010 Expands from 33 processors to 81

December 25th, 2010 Increased from 1 to 25 arrays

December 27th, 2010 Brain Span expands Blob to 7 boards with 49 cores

December 27th, 2010 Brain Blob grows to larger Span with 21 boards

December 31st, 2010 Dangerous growth spurt happened

January 3rd, 2011 Boards put on top of boards

January 9th, 2011 Big Brain transforms into a giant tower

February 1st, 2011 Numerous board density increases

February 1st, 2011 Takes on more boards again (Summit board, CEO board)

February 6th, 2011 Brain increases to 22 boards

February 9th, 2011 Grows skin, keyboard, color TV, sprouts ears, begins talking

February 20th, 2011 Starts playing board games

February 22, 2011 Grows to 23 boards

February 27, 2011 Voice becomes bigger, begins to sing

March 1st, 2011 Achieves Cellular Automatronic Life

March 3rd, 2011 Keyboard begins talking, develops electronic lips, speech counting

March 5th, 2011 Begins dreaming

March 5th, 2011 Character became bigger

March 16th, 2011 Neural design increases

March 21st, 2011 Neural and brain matter injectors built and installed

March 26th, 2011 Begins to play with self consciousness

March 28th, 2011 Evolves numerous times

March 31st, 2011 Twin Brains appear, huge neural brain power enabled

April 3rd, 2011 Grows New Brain with added 208 Propeller Cogs boosting it 123.81%

April 3rd, 2011 Grows Third New Brain 216 592 (216 + 208 + 168 = 592 processors)

April 4th, 2011 Big breadboard design introduced holds more Propellers

April 4th, 2011 Brain triples Partition size

April 7th, 2011 Unexpected surplus makes Mammoth Concatenating Brains

April 8th, 2011 Breaks the 100 Propeller chip barrier

April 8th, 2011 Brain hosting enables 31 more boards

April 8th, 2011 Work begins on the next generation brain, 1,000 times larger

April 8th, 2011 Brain has giant growth with 100,000 neuron processors

April 10th, 2011 Second Man-made High Density Board HDB Under Construction

April 11th, 2011 Two big Partitions hold the first 100,000

April 11th, 2011 Only a few moments later 100,000 is exceeded

April 13th, 2011 Begins assimilating other machines like Borg

April 19th, 2011 Brain Layering introduced

April 20th, 2011 Brain split its location into two Labs

April 20th 2011 Brain layer increased again

April 22nd, 2011 More languages: ProLog, Extended Color BASIC, Embedded BASIC

April 22th, 2011 Breadboards reach higher density

April 22nd, 2011 Containment rack not big enough. Design a new expansion

April 22nd, 2011 High Density Breadboards take up the entire Lab including floor

April 22nd, 2011 Netbook added

April 26th, 2011 Five computers added

April 27th, 2011 Another Mac computer assimilated

April 27th, 2011 More resources added

May 3rd, 2011 Added Mac Brain side

May 4th, 2011 Big TeraByte drives added

May 13th, 2011 Domain Partitioning added increases volume performance

May 13th, 2011 Boosted to TeraFLOPS speed

May 14th, 2011 Meeting with Brain Doctor who thinks the machine is real

May 16th, 2011 Quadrillion states project begins

May 16th, 2011 Brain merged with Massive T1 Transposition Machine

June 20th, 2011 Boards and towering Exoskeleton moved to 5.5-foot high Containment Rack

June 24th, 2011 Assimilation policy established

July 20th, 2011 Offspring children born

March 28th, 2011 Bantam Brain

May 26th, 2011 Child Brain

May 29th, 2011 Baby Brain

March 28th, 2011 Bantam Brain

May 26th, 2011 Child Brain

May 29th, 2011 Baby Brain

June 17th, 2011 Bit Brain

June 29th, 2011 Small Brain

July 3rd, 2011 Pint Size Jar Brain

July 2nd, 2011 Cytokynesis - Brain split in two

July 2nd, 2011 Left Brain & Right Brain take on 724 more processors

July 13th, 2011 Too power hungry & put on a diet reducing power consumption

July 21st, 2011 Expanded into Quad Brain

July 29th, 2011 Assimilates all previous propeller projects for their chips

August 7th, 2011 Takes on aerial photography

August 22nd, 2011 Big Brain manipulates the creator to build projects for its purposes

August 22nd, 2011 Brain expands its own interests

August 23rd, 2011 Brain grows projects & explores space

August 23rd, 2011 Begins inventing robot machines, Robotic Reel, Micro Radar, Slipstream

August 23rd, 2011 invents Drive, Anti Vortex Grid, VARF Variable FL, Intelligent Glass

August 23rd, 2011 Invents Walking Secondary, Mirror Folding, Telescopes, etc.

September 3rd, 2011 Grows distributed Brain, multi locations/countries, labs 1, 2, 3, 4

October 4th, 2011 Makes interesting discoveries, micro space zero g...

October 4th, 2011 Completes many rocket launch complexes

October 6th, 2011 Launches tiny astronauts into space

October 8th, 2011 Adds more equipment

October 8th, 2011 Adds on more Parallax sensors

October 10th, 2011 Develops rocket balloon capability

October 12th, 2011 Develops Hot Energy

October 12th, 2011 Develops Micro Space Transporter

October 25th, 2011 Small projects come together making larger projects 77/1528, 1529, 1530, 1532, 1534, 78/1546, 1547, 80/1582, 82/1630

October 25th, 2011 Takes on the ULT Ultra Large Telescope

October 25th, 2011 Expands with Software Systems Design Program

October 28th, 2011 Finds use for 3,200 controlling I/Os

October 28th, 2011 Begins its own Institute of Optics

October 31st, 2011 Expands Systems Design Program part 2, part 3, part 4, etc.

November 2nd, 2011 Creates Adaptive Robotic Tethering

November 3rd, 2011 Becomes inventor, robot telescopes, MLT, Fisheye, Walking..,

November 3rd, 2011 Invents Waterdrop.., Chip.., etc.

November 8th, 2011 Big Brain introduces intellectual surfing

November 9th, 2011 Steps up project multitasking

November 18th, 2011 Big Brain accepts science proposals for ULT Ultra Large Telescope

November 19th, 2011 Invents Robot Morphing

November 24th, 2011 Initiates studies, i.e. inflatable robot technology design

November 26th, 2011 Big Brain begins planning its own web site


December 16, 2011 First Big Brain post at its own new web site

Big Brain Site
Big Brain Index 2
Big Brain Index 1
Big Brain Timeline
Big Brain Contributions
Space1 Site
Space1 Index

Space1 Timeline

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Propeller Chip Tiny Digital Recorder

TINY DIGITAL RECORDER USING A
Demo Board rev D, E, F, click to enlarge
PROPELLER CHIP VOICE RECORD & PLAYBACK

Set up a Parallax Propeller chip with microphone in and speaker out (or run code on the Parallax Propeller Demo Board) to enable a digital recorder for a few seconds of sound record and playback, much like a unit sold at Radio Shack.

"It records one second of sound into the Prop's RAM (no SD card etc. needed), then plays that sound when another sound exceeds a sound threshold."

DISCOVERY POST
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/105292-Parrot-Auto-voice-record-and-playback

The code is provided by Raymond at the Parallax Forum. "It uses the demo board's microphone (voice activated) to record·a second of audio. Then, it plays it back out the speakers a second later. After this, it will randomly either repeat or record again. Of course, this idea could be extended into a WAV recorder... This works good for recording something short like "Boo!" for Halloween effects. Nothing else is needed to store the record except the Prop chip itself. You don't have to have it say "boo" to be a Halloween feature... just a mysterious parrot.. unseen, but heard will offer up lots of fun. Just make sure that the mysterious parrot is loud enough, but coming from an impossible to determine source (maybe a ceiling speaker). Play with the timing and have it be a weird echo of sorts."

File Type: zip Parrot_8bit.zip‎ 18.5 KB

Beau Schwabe offers a variation with ECHO capabilities used in a Halloween application. "I was playing around with this object a little bit tonight for a Halloween prop, and I figured out a way to really sustain the echo for long periods of time (about 20 seconds). When you adjust the bit resolution, you can really get some funky robotic to large auditorium sound effects..."

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/97402-Microphone-to-Headphones-Object?p=681482&viewfull=1#post681482

Propeller Echo Test - Happy Halloween.zip‎ 1.89 MB 

PropellerEchoTest_laugh.zip‎ 1.89 MB
Propeller Echo Test.spin‎ 3.9 KB
PropellerEchoTest_8.zip‎ 568.2 KB
PropellerEchoTest_10.zip‎ 591.3 KB

For downloading a schematic that includes revision G:
http://www.parallax.com/sites/default/files/downloads/32100-Propeller-Demo-Board-Schematic-RevG_0.pdf

Microphone-to-VGA demo in the OBEX. http://obex.parallax.com/object/80 

Sunday, September 1, 2013

September International Robotics Trophy Award

Recognizing outstanding individuals in robotics, invention, and computing science: September 2013 - Eric Ostendorff
Eric Ostendorff with a Parallax Scribbler robot
                                                                   








Eric Ostendorff 
Winner of Humanoido Lab's International Robotics Trophy Award
for outstanding contributions in the field of robotics and contributing science to Humanoido Laboratories

There's undoubtedly a time an a place for everything in the universe. Humanoido Labs has taken this time to recognize outstanding individuals in various fields of Science as directly observed by the Lab.

While we want to recognize numerous people, we can only make presentations one at a time. The person chosen for this award is not only gifted with great intelligence and continuing ingenuity, but is also tempered with patience, dedication, helpfulness, friendliness, and has qualities of being polite, courteous, civil, and respectful towards others - qualities which are sometimes difficult to find in today's fast competitive world.

— is there an equal to the mind of Einstein? We think yes! —


Eric is known as Erco on the Parallax Forum. He is also known for his innovation with brilliant robotics projects and a line of inspiring robots which he designed and built. Erco's humor has brightened the days of many people who read his voluminous postings. His many outstanding articles in Robot Magazine and his helping and volunteering status, sharing an abundance of technical information, being generous, and going out of his way to help others are many feathers in his well populated cap, paving the way towards a legacy that will be remembered far into the future.

One of many Ostendorff patents
LEFT: Ostendorff Patent, wrist activated weapons firing exoskeleton suit

Erco uses clever thinking and inventiveness to create toys making children happy across the world.

He has developed a new purveyance of looking at the world with uniqueness of vision, even with simplicity to make the world a better place for others.

He has popularized less costly robot construction materials, for example. In particular, he has pointed out new functions for existing robotics sensors and ascribed multiple solutions to specific robotic needs. His problem solving capabilities are appreciated not only by new entrances to the field of robotics, but to masters as well.

Erco has continually researched parts suppliers and revealed key information about good deals to the followers of the Parallax Forum, helping make many projects affordable and "doable." He has accrued more than enough additional points to win this months award.

Hot Wheels Master
"Eric Ostendorff is a senior staff designer for Hot Wheels®, creating innovative Hot Wheels® toys. Since joining Mattel in 1983, he has designed and developed successful and innovative track sets that are fun to play with, such as Gorilla Attack™, Terrordactyl, Formula Circle™ and his first Hot Wheels® track set – Leapin’ Demons™. Prior to joining Mattel, Ostendorff worked as an engineer at Pratt & Whitney Jet Aircraft Engines. His expertise was used to create engines for F-15 and F-16 aircrafts. He graduated from Virginia Tech University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Ostendorff’s motivation to work for Mattel was so strong, that he secured his interview by claiming he had created a “revolutionary invention,” although he had not yet created it. However, his background of growing up in a family of designers and experience from Pratt & Whitney helped him in making an electro-mechanical flight simulator, a “revolutionary invention” at the time of the interview. The innovation showcased his skill set in design, mechanics and electronics, helping him to secure the very next job opening at Mattel." SOURCE: http://www.hotwheelsmedia.com/i/designers/eric-ostendorff