Space1 First Year of Operation

SPACE1
FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION

January 1st, 2015 marks the first full year of Space1 operations. Space1 was founded and began January 1st, 2014.

Partial Space1 accomplishments in the first year are listed below.

Opening the doors to the future is paramount at Space1

ESTABLISHED

• Established the first rocket lab in Taiwan
• Established international operations in Taiwan, USA, Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore
• Established the second rocket lab in Taiwan
• Established a space aeronautical lab in Taiwan
  
• Established a staff of 5
• Established functions of President, Founder, CEO, Rocket Scientist, Aeronautical Engineer, American SpacePort Director, Investor, Chief Korean Scientist, Korean Conceptual Design Director, Wisdom Lab Chief of Operations, Taiwan Master of R&D, Taiwan Master SpacePort Engineer
• Established a Telemetry Division
• Established the Avionics Division
• Established a rocket computer lab 1
• Established a rocket computer lab 2
• Established a Cybernetics Lab
• Established a Wisdom Lab in South Korea
• Established a book of guidelines and operations
• Established methods and results of slower velocities
• Established an Electronics Lab
• Established 2D to 3D Era
• Established Space1 Era 

FOUNDING

• Founded a spaceport in Taiwan
• Founded a spaceport in the USA
• Founded SpaceOne

BUSINESS MERGERS

•  Merged 14 space companies with Space1 for instant resources

INVENTION

• Invented the world's first safety rocket
• Invented wrap around instrumentation
• Invented the NC Rocket Launcher
• Invented Rocket fin arrangement guide
• Invented the Referential Time Machine RTM
• Invented The Space Machine
• Invented the Komputer
• Invented KOSMOS software
• Invented the Atomic G-Force Absorber
• Invented the Multi-D

DESIGN

• Designed Space1 Magazine
• Began designing a rocket plane
• Designed Self supporting split fin
• Designed Launch Towers
• Designed and completed 15 rockets 

STUDY

• Launch site determination study
• Rocket size study
• Outpost in space study
• Space Station Study
• Recovery methods study
• A study of slow rocket advantages
• Opening the doors to the future study
• Rocket launch vs Spaceport size study
• Rocket nose cone drag study
• Completed the power study of rocketry
• Completed the comprehensive robotics study
• Lower altitude study
• Referential Time Travel study
• Longer flight study
• A study of station fuel
• A study to keep space and earth environmentally green
• A study of rocket flight time
• A study of rocket weight
• A study of rocket size
• A study of fins to reduce weather cocking
• A study of swept back fins
• A study of the lucky 7 tube fin results
• A study of rocket flight computers
• A study of fins vs rocket stability
• A Study of Rocket weight vs motor size
• Studied and Defined Motions of a rocket
• Completed the prime rocket motor study
• A study of Centering Rings
• A study of Objects Existing in or Traveling Through the Troposphere
• Study of robotics in rocketry
• A study of Tube Fin SIMs
• A study of Removable Fin Assembly Sleeve

DEVELOPMENT

• Developed temp space
• Developed temp space ownership
• Developed a rocket interface
• Developed space real estate plots
• Developed sensor systems 
• Developed a disposable rocket shell casing
• Developed the space black box 
• Developed spacecraft booms for imaging
• Developed safe space
• Developed the weightlessness extension method
• Developed extending rocket flight duration on short term missions
• Developed Anti-break Fin Design
• Developed the Massive Space Time Arc
• Developed rocket constructing techniques
• Developed the rocket rangefinder
• Developed two Two-Engine Space Places
• Developed two Four-Engine Nano Space Places  
• Developed one Four-Engine Mid-Size Space Place
• Developed one Six-Engine Large Space Place
• Recorded the story of Space1
• Developed the inflatables concept 
• Developed methods of space tourism
• Developed the Intl Enterprise Rocket
• Developed the DIA Rocket
• Developed the Zeus Rocket
• Developed the Argus Rocket
• Developed the Zeus-Argus Rocket
• Developed the M1 Heavy Lift Rocket
• Developed the M1 Hybrid Rocket
• Developed the M2 Rocket
• Developed the B1 First Generation Rocket
• Developed the B1 Blaster 2nd Generation Rocket
• Developed the B1 Master Blaster MB 3rd Generation Rocket
• Developed the Singularity 1 Rocket
• Developed the Singularity 2 Rocket
• Developed the Singularity 3 Rocket
• Developed the Milestone Rocket 
• Developed the Aerospace Station
• Developed flight operations and flying patterns
• Developed the first FPV system
• Developed long range tracking
• Developed a tracking station
• Worked on the small rocket stabilizing system
• Developed Search and Find
• Developed the Grappler Mission
• Developed the Aerospace Rocket Sub
• Developed Sub Sats
• Began developing space planes
• Developed greater mass lifting
• Developed the curtain in flight drift
• Developed reusable methods
• Developed a steerable parachute
• Developed the space glider
• Developed alternative rocket lift vehicle
• Developed the satellite rocket
• Developed the no thrust ring for rocket motors
• Developed rocket windows
• Development of flight package
• Development of the rocket flight computer
• Developed rocket altitude measuring from a photo
• Developed PET fins
• Developed Tube fins
• Developed concepts in lower altitude 
• Developed Space rocket lists
• Developed Rocketeer Science Notepad
• Developed methods to increase rocket strength
• Developed a Passive Vortex Chamber Rocket Design
• Developed a system of Perk Ideas
• Developed a system to Lower cost of programs and materials 

CREATION

• Created interior space rocket designs
• Created conceptual drop satellites
• Created the space arc
• Created a founding company overview PDF 
• Created numerous inventions (i.e. KOSMOS, Komputer, Space Machine, Atomic G-Force Absorber, Referential Time Machine, Multi-D)
• Created a rocket design program
• Created Space1 email
• Created Space1 logo
• Created Space1 blogs
• Created high technology space flight
• Created a vision for the future of Space1
• Created Rocket tips 
• Created Parachute calculations 
• Created Space1 Odyssey Adventure Program 

WORK

• Worked to prevent recovery drifT
• Worked on suborbital space stations
• Worked on the ground pilot

ACQUISITION

• Acquired a rocket lab inventory
• Obtained rocket casings and rocket parts
• Purchased CAD design programs

MEETING

• Held meetings in Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei, New York

TESTING

• Materials Testing
• Initiated and completed many rocket tests

PUBLICATIONS

• Published a year's worth of Space1 Magazine issues
• Completed Lab bulletins
• Completed a Newsletter
• Generated evolutionary letters
• Created the company Charter
• Created Space1 Manual
• Completed SpaceOne Issue One
• Completed Space1 Issue Two
• Completed Space1 Issue 3

LISTS

• Developed a list of Objects Existing in or Traveling Through the Troposphere
• List of rocket motors
• List of thrust versus motor
• List of rocket motor performance curves

MISSIONS

• Initiated the High Rise Skyscraper Mission
• Deep into Tropospheric Space Mission

OTHER

• Selected prime rocket motors for rocket flights 

The list is truncated due to excessive content. It gives a general idea of numerous things happening at Space1 during the first year 2014.

DISCLAIMER

The above descriptions and categories of Space1 accomplishments during the first year of operations do not include sensitive material, secret missions or developments, confidential ideas, numerous nondisclosure inventions, and other situations of a non-released  and classified stature.

January 2014 Update

The Lab's Christmas tree for the 12 days of Christmas is very small - only about 7-inches high. It's fully decorated with Christmas ornaments separately purchased. Many of the individual components were received as holiday gifts. There's a set of battery operated working colored lights on the tree and a flashing lights Santa nativity set. Tiny box gifts actually fit under the tree. it sets on the Lab's mantel top.

JANUARY 2014 UPDATE
The new year has three major projects ongoing - 1) the Robot Explorer designed to explore new worlds, 2) the Brain Cortex in a Jar designed to transfer a small part of a human brain into the machine brain for greater longevity, and 3) the FM transmitter and radio station. Side projects include sending a man into space, developing humanoids and humanoid brains, advancing the deep space program with the new telescopes invented, and continuing to upgrade the Lab capabilities and facilities. Other projects include developing satellites, a new kind of flyable rocket ship design, and a possible major expansion of the current laboratory. There's also a push to develop custom test equipment and finish the radio station as it may be used as a wireless device for the brain in a jar.

FM Radio Station Broadcast Script Part 8

For FM radio broadcast testing, the green solid strand wire loop antenna was formed into a 1.75-inch diameter circle and soldered to the printed circuit board. The close proximity of the radio is for illustration only. The antenna and the transmitter are directional.

FM RADIO STATION BROADCAST SCRIPT PART 8
This is a list of broadcast script from the FM radio station on day 1 through 3 of part time operations. The determined test frequency is currently 102 MHz on the FM band.

Monday December 23
Two days before Christmas, at 10:00 pm, the radio station was turned on for the first time. A nearby FM radio was scanned across several transmitter harmonics, then settled onto the strongest signal. It's a success! "Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3..." came in loud and clear on the small portable radio tuned to the FM band. This was repeated several times.

Tuesday December 24
On Christmas Eve around 11 pm, this special transmission went out for holiday wishes and additional tests were completed. "Have a happy holiday and Merry Christmas." The script was repeated prior to running tests. 

Wednesday December 25th Christmas
At 1:00 am to 1:30 am, for tests, "Roger Rabbit" was repeated which verified the frequency orientation shift. For each Roger Rabbit, a new orientation and frequency shift was tested. Microphone positioning was established along with the notation of characteristics from human positioning. In particular, the coil is sensitive to human positioning and will need to be in a retracted position during future operations.

Signal Propagation
Again, with a 1.75-inch green loop antenna, which is very cute by the way, we're not exactly sure who heard the signal other than ourselves in the Lab due to the given "in house" range.

QSL Cards
If and when we are able to extend the range to another room, we'll think about making up a batch of QSL Reception Verification Cards for "send out" to our... er...  colleagues.

Radio Station Name
Prior to the design of QSL cards, the radio station will need a name, something like Whisper 102 Radio...

Broadcast Schedule
Later we will present the Whisper Radio 102 broadcast schedule for the New Year!

FM Radio Station Part 5 Index
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/12/fm-radio-station-part-5-index.html

Extremely Powerful Telescopes Chronology

EXTREMELY POWERFUL TELESCOPES CHRONOLOGY, IN ORDER OF INTRODUCTION, CITING 1ST BLOG DATE

1) ULT - Ultra Large Telescope - March 2012
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/03/nult-new-ultra-large-telescope-home.html
 
2) NULT - New Ultra Large Telescope - February 2012
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-ultra-large-telescope-nult.html
 
3) GT - Genius Telescope - June 2012
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/06/gt-genius-telescope.html
 
4) PGT - Paradigmic Genius Telescope - September 2012
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/09/paradigmic-gt-telescope.html
 
5) MGT - Molecular Genius Telescope - October 2012
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/10/big-brains-new-paradigmic-molecular.html
 
6) PGT-ET - Paradigmic Genius Telescope - March 2013
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2013/03/pgt-telescope-new-look.html
 
7) PDT - Power Dynamic Telescope - April 2013
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-telescope-announcement.html
 
8) GGT - Gargantuan Gravatomic Telescope - May 2013
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/05/next-telescope.html
 
9) SRT - Space Recycler Telescope - May 2013
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/05/novel-space-junk-telescope.html

10) MMT - Molecular Mining Telescope - May 2013
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/05/mgt-molecular-cradle-of-stars.html 

11) IET - Inference Engine Telescope - May 2013
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/05/iet-interference-engine-telescope-first.html

12) M3T - Massive Molecular Mining Telescope - November 2013
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/11/m3t-telescope-first-light-saturn.html

13) ET - Extrapolation Telescope - December 2013
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/12/et-telescope.html

14) IT - Interpolation Telescope - December 2013
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/12/it-interpolation-telescope.html

15) OT - Over the Top Telescope - January 2014
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/12/ott-over-top-telescope.html

Brain Cortex Time Travel Predictions Part 13

BRAIN CORTEX TIME TRAVEL PREDICTIONS
PART 13

by humanoido

FUTURES Looking forward to the year 3000, with longevity and perhaps immortality, what would you expect to see and encounter while traveling throughout time?

This is really all about the intelligent brain cortex machine, supplanted with your cognition, genes and engrams. It's about what events the cortex will see unfold when time traveling throughout the future slipstream of world events...

The chart shows only a more obvious subset of actual events and are only estimations and predictions of future happenings, i.e. their timelines may be shifted forward or backwards from the predicted dates, and cannot include the unforeseen or derivations of actual events that the cortex may see and experience. It's likely many of the listed event will happen much sooner as the chart errors on the positive side of time. The chart may be modified to increase accuracy.

Brain Cortex Index Part 16

Big Brain 4th Year Operations

BIG BRAIN 4TH YEAR OPERATIONS

HISTORIC PHOTO: the path to the original Big Brain tower is paved with Parallax Propeller chips.

Join us as we celebrate entering into the Big Brain's fourth year of operations and discovery! The fourth year began on August 5th 2013.

Our 1st post about the Propeller chip-based Big Brain was on August 5th, 2010, when Humanoido posed the famous question:

If you had a big brain for your robot, what would you put in it? I think some similarity to a human brain is good, for example, put in vision processing, memory, and a robot autonomic nervous system.
Ok, your turn, fill the brain..

ABOUT THE BIG BRAIN The Big Brain is now a thinking machine that was born from a small hobby project. By the year 2002, its design was expanded for several robots, culminating with multiple parallel processors placed in a humanoid. The objective was to create a living thinking humanoid robot brain of autonomous nature with a knowledge base.

The Big Brain has probed and dissected the inner space micro and nano scopic workings of its own Propeller chip circuits thus creating enhancements unbeknownst to the original manufacturing chip company.

Starting with one processor, it was realized that more power was needed, thus, over the years, it continued to grow with additional processors until it reached a very massive state around August of 2010 when it was switched to primarily Parallax Propeller chips.

Every year since that time, we've celebrated the Propeller chip birthing anniversary of the Big Brain. In three years, a lot has happened. The biggest milestones can be summarized by the Propeller chip era seen below.

FIRST YEAR
2010 Birth (Design, Parts, Construction, Growth, Blob, Testing)

SECOND YEAR
2011 Life (Software, Expansion, Speech, Sing, Dream)
2011 Semi Cognizant (Intelligence, Languages, Neural Net)
2011 Micro Space Program Begins (8-21-2011)

THIRD YEAR
2012 Supertronic Enhanced (Increased Speed & Processors)
2012 Big Brain Runs Its Own Blog

FOURTH YEAR
2013 Big Brain Conducts Massive Projects, Explores Universe

Remember this famous post?

04-10-2011, 03:41 AM Humanoido
Big Breakthrough in Machine Brain Technology!
100,000 Neurons into the 1st 100 Propellers
This is a big breakthrough in big brain machine technology using Propellers. I have successfully delivered (Neural Matter Injected) 100,000 neurons into the first 100 Propellers. It's time to celebrate!!! See you tomorrow! 

For more detail, follow these links. (some may need updating with the latest discoveries)

BIG BRAIN HISTORY
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/p/history.html
SPECIFICATIONS
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/p/specs.html
MILESTONES
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/p/milestones.html

Below are details about previous Big Brain anniversaries. 

08-05-2011 One Year Anniversary Party
We're holding a One Year Anniversary Party for the Big Brain over the weekend. Everyone's invited!  I'm checking on appointments at the University of Technology to possibly see the new humanoids and also checking the Exposition Lecture agenda through the university where they host Brain research. Some interesting facts, the Big Brain is the largest Parallax machine ever built in my smallest lab. There's over 300 smaller machines built from the beginning of 2002 to 2011, a ten year period, so I could learn about putting together multiple processors. The first multi-brain was made from several Parallax Stamps placed into a humanoid robot built from Parallax Toddler robot parts. The Big Brain's official first post was on August 5th, 2010. The Big Brain uses Propeller chips. Out of respect to its heritage and to remain compatible with ten years of development, a BASIC stamp is designed into its Brain Stem. In building humanoid robots, they were consistently lacking in two things - a long lasting battery and a powerful brain. I wasn't interested in working with battery chemicals so I chose to develop a brain. The brain began by many suggestions from Parallax Forum members. The Brain has many supporting projects posted in the Brain thread. The most recent is a Brain Wave Monitor that can see and hear the thinking of Propeller chips. The Brain led to offspring, several smaller brains, even including a controversial two prop brain in a jar that won Parallax's Project of the week. The one year mark is time to reflect on where the Brain was, is now, and where it's going. It's not over yet. The journey has only just begun. It's more about the journey than the destination - the path we choose, the things we learn and develop along the way and the new friends we make. Stay tuned. I will continue trying new and unusual things, pacing the Big Brain, making some small discoveries, and growing the artistic, creative edge. There are future treats in store for those following along...

At the second year anniversary, the Big Brain machine's state was described.

A working massive Machine Brain with over 100 Parallax Propeller chips. The Big Brain is simply a fun hobby project to run experiments and play with endless possibilities. Over 16,000 MIPS, over 3,200 I/O ports. 3 Partitions - the 3rd is a Magic Partition - holds any number of props from 1 to 50, allows removal & loan to other projects. Talk, sing, dream, learn, evolve, demonstrate Life, color TV, hearing, speech recognition, keyboard, mouse, 2 LCD displays, host boards, compatibility (Stamps, Props, PCs, Macs), sound out, mic in, stomach, Brain Base, Brain Spans, Brain Stem, EXOskeleton, multiple languages, over 100 x 64K distributed RAM/ROM, LED enabled, crystal/EEPROM supported, Mac/PC support computers, 3 TeraByte hard drives, Neural Matter Injector syncs & load props in parallel. Developed ParaP, AtOnce, EnhancedChip technologies - parallel-parallel operations, loading @ once, increase p^N, inject 100,000 Simplex Neurons. Expanding Array. Created modest RTOS - handles cogs, loading, timing, neural matter distribution. Cloning. Executes all-chip-multi-enumeration in a second. Expanding Arrays. HYBRID interface (Serial Communications, Daisy Chain Token Ring Topology, Prop to Prop, Parallel), RI Reduction Interface, AE Automatic Enumerator, Waveform Reliability Filter, No Parts Technology to reduce cost. Addendum: Medical doctor/ Human Genome Project. Offspring: Brain Child, Baby Brain, Bit Brain, and Brain in a Jar. Supporting Mac/AMD add 724 processors. TeraFLOPS computing power just under PetaFlops."

FORWARD FROM Year Three
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/search?q=anniversary

Propeller Brain Three Year Anniversary

In the beginning: Brain Stem with BS2 and Prop

PROPELLER BRAIN THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

The first post made specifically for the Big Brain project was on August 5th, 2010, by humanoido. This led to a total of 1,763 posts which have received a total of 200,089 views at the Parallax site as of Monday, July 29th, 2013.

1st Big Brain board

On January 3rd, 2012, the Parallax Forum was filled and no longer had space for Big Brain posts. The project was moved to its own blog site. The current blogging site has added another 525 posts. The new site was up and running shortly after January 3rd, 2012 and has remained in full operation through 2016.

The first posted photo of a Big Brain board was on December 21st, 2010 (see photo above). It shows the robotic Brain Stem which was constructed first. The Brain Stem handles the nerve sending ability for robotic motor and various motion control functions. It uses a protected interface that communicates between the 5-volt level of the BASIC Stamp and the 3.3-volt level of the Propeller chip. A serial software interface joins processors and enables inter-board communications. The Lab's first Robotic Brain Stem is created from Parallax processors and designed to communicate motion mobility commands to a Giant Brain. The HBP Hybrid Brain Processor is programmed in two languages.

At the 1st year anniversary, a celebration party was held. Below is a portion of the original post. 
The first multi-brain was made from several Parallax Stamps placed into a humanoid robot built from Parallax Toddler robot parts. The Big Brain's official first post was on August 5th, 2010. The Big Brain uses Propeller chips. Out of respect to its heritage and to remain compatible with ten years of development, a BASIC stamp is designed into its Brain Stem. In building humanoid robots, they were consistently lacking in two things - a long lasting battery and a powerful brain. I wasn't interested in working with battery chemicals so I chose to develop a brain. The brain began by many suggestions from Parallax Forum members. The Brain has many supporting projects posted in the Brain thread. The most recent is a Brain Wave Monitor that can see and hear the thinking of Propeller chips. The Brain led to offspring, several smaller brains, even including a two prop brain in a jar that won Parallax's Project of the week...

At the second year anniversary, the Big Brain machine's state was described.
A working massive Machine Brain with over 100 Parallax Propeller chips. The Big Brain is simply a fun hobby project to run experiments and play with endless possibilities. Over 16,000 MIPS, over 3,200 I/O ports. 3 Partitions - the 3rd is a Magic Partition - holds any number of props from 1 to 50, allows removal & loan to other projects. Talk, sing, dream, learn, evolve, demonstrate Life, color TV, hearing, speech recognition, keyboard, mouse, 2 LCD displays, host boards, compatibility (Stamps, Props, PCs, Macs), sound out, mic in, stomach, Brain Base, Brain Spans, Brain Stem, EXOskeleton, multiple languages, over 100 x 64K distributed RAM/ROM, LED enabled, crystal/EEPROM supported, Mac/PC support computers, 3 TeraByte hard drives, Neural Matter Injector syncs & load props in parallel. Developed ParaP, AtOnce, EnhancedChip technologies - parallel-parallel operations, loading @ once, increase p^N, inject 100,000 Simplex Neurons. Expanding Array. Created modest RTOS - handles cogs, loading, timing, neural matter distribution. Cloning. Executes all-chip-multi-enumeration in a second. Expanding Arrays. HYBRID interface (Serial Communications, Daisy Chain Token Ring Topology, Prop to Prop, Parallel), RI Reduction Interface, AE Automatic Enumerator, Waveform Reliability Filter, No Parts Technology to reduce cost. Addendum: Medical doctor/ Human Genome Project. Offspring: Brain Child, Baby Brain, Bit Brain, and Brain in a Jar. Supporting Mac/AMD add 724 processors. TeraFLOPS computing power just under PetaFlops." 

For the 3rd year anniversary, it's become more challenging to describe all the programs conducted by the Big Brain Initiative.

Principally the Big Brain is doing its own projects which have become greater, more sophisticated and all encompassing. For example, a series of very powerful telescopes are now created, and numerous machines that can see with inference engines, molecular constructs, and gravity are in effect. The Humanoido Labs were internationally expanded to handle more of the Big Brain's work. Work progresses on a new Spin Brain and a manned space program has explored Near Space and deployed a Tiny Space Telescope. Recently a space flight was unexpectedly positioned above a rainbow and discovered that rainbows are shaped in a complete circle.

The Big Brain has already written a scientific paper, and has now progressed to writing a book about itself and Propeller circuits. The Big Brain was enhanced several times. The most recent added enhancements include Supertronic abilities and conventions. As of the third year, many of Big Brain's children, like Bit, have grown up. The Spin Brain is one example of a more mature brain.

The third year budget was greater than the previous two years, owing primarily to summing the increasing resources from NASA, related NASA agencies and continuing investments by Humanoido Labs to keep the Big Brain Initiative running. The largest part of the budget involves the overhead in keeping the Tropical Island Laboratory open and running, such as the cost in running and maintaining two air massive conditioners day and night used to maintain Big Brain operating temperatures within normal parameters, and the use of dehumidifiers and other equipment. Purchase of transportation this past year was also a priority to enable an immediate path to more expeditiously acquire Big Brain parts and related items.

Budget also involves continuing Big Brain projects like the human exploration of Near Space, space launches, acquiring equipment and adding on operations to include the Tiny Space Telescope, Radio Telescope and SETI program, test equipment and providing the time for additional operations, and Propeller and supercomputing R&D.

(The stretch of this time has analyzed black holes and looked at more dimensions beyond space and time, including the quantum arena, particulate entanglement, and numerous other effects.)

One continuing goal is to increase the number of processors inside the Big Brain, as the core density is directly proportional to the given intelligence level of the machine. The push is to lead from a processor density around 200,000 to one million in order to move from a semi-cognizant state to a fully aware state. The exact requirements to accomplish this are unknown at this time, and it's likely the Big Brain itself will be a part of the process in determining its own new state.

In a nutshell, three years of study and experimentation with the brain's propeller chip has led to more discoveries and greater enhancement. In the third year, the Propeller has moved far beyond its original specs, operates faster, can do more, and has more processors. It has more algorithms and has grown up to become a supercomputer, making discoveries about the Universe and beyond. It's now poised on horizon's edge of new science and technology. We cannot begin to fathom what will come next.

LINKS 
2ND YEAR ANNIVERSARY
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/07/big-brain-2-years-ago.html
INDEX on current blog
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/p/index.html
1ST FORUM THREAD at the parallax site
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/124495-Fill-the-Big-Brain?highlight=Fill+Big+Brain
CURRENT BLOGGER at the current big brain site
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com
Download Big Brain 1st Anniversary Proceedings (offsite)
http://forums.parallax.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=83945&d=1313056167 
BRAIN IN A JAR
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/132716-Propeller-Brain-in-a-Jar
BRAIN STEM
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/127310-Robotic-Brain-Stem

New Year 2013 Spectacular

Creative pinwheel by Taiwan Masters is spectacular!

NEW YEAR 2013 SPECTACULAR CELEBRATION!!!

You've never seen Taipei 101 like this before!!! - Welcome to Taiwan!!!

This year, Taiwan officials in charge of managing New Years fireworks at Taipei 101, one of the tallest sky scraper buildings in the world, came back with a spectacular display of fireworks, one so great - it defied the imagination!

The display solved the challenges from an earlier year when the great fireworks and amazing choreography ended up producing smoke which rose from the ground level upwards, and blocked out some of the fantastic fireworks shot and launched from the side of the 101 building.

Today, the new millions of dollars display, seen by crowds of millions of people at ground level, was ever more spectacular. Obvious visuals included perfect timing and position, as fireworks launched outwards in patterns with synchronization where the smoke quickly dissipated. The breeze was also cooperative and the weather was perfect, the brilliant Moon high in the sky to prove the excellent conditions.

For the multi-days holiday, it appeared that pollution completely vanished when the island's manufacturing plants, and possibly those located in Mainland China, shut down.

PHOTO 1 Take a look at our most spectacular introduction photo. Look carefully and closely about two thirds of the way up, in the center, where you'll see the dimly glowing two Chinese characters proclaiming New Year good luck. How this was master-minded so perfectly is beyond belief!

 photo 2

CLICK ON THE SMALLER PHOTOS TO SEE THEIR FULL SIZE
Nothing burned down, not like what happened in Mainland China the other year when a new skyscraper completely burned out, a fire caused by the abundance of amateur lit fireworks during Chinese New Year!

Taiwan is very regulated during the Gregorian Calendar's New Year and has a climate that's always damp and humid which helps create an evironment rather perfect for launching fireworks.

 photo 4

 photo 3

Note the creative pinwheel, Christmas Tree, spirals, colors and other remarkable shapes and displays, with impeccable calculated timing, spread, position, color, duration, intensity, contrast, and backed by a literal textbook of mathematics in motion producing great fireworks stature so precise that no one could have expected such spectacular results this year!

 photo 5

 photo 6

These are definitely good luck photos as my clock was 20 minutes early due to a run down battery. When I turned on the TV, fortunately I saw there was a countdown with only 24 seconds left to the New Years beginning.

 photo 7

 photo 8

I had to run and hurry to start up the camera. Unfortunately I had yet to take a movie with the new camera and could not find the setting. However, the still images still turned out great, imo, even though I had to brave the cold, standing outside on the deck in only PJs.

 Photo 9: A burst of green color

 photo 10

This deck has served as a platform for taking a few astronomical photos of star fields and selected objects (see previous blogs), and the brick building side was a good steady base when I remembered to use it.

Photo 2 shows the shape of a big Christmas Tree.

Photo 3 is one of the most spectacular with intermixed colors and shapes, which are glowing and scintillating beyond belief.

Photo 4  is a mind meld of real time spinning motion from bottom to top of 101, with a special rotating messages display (seen towards the top). This may also periodically show advertising sponsor messages and graphics. It took special processing to bring out the delicate contrast of these characters that were located behind the blazing fire and brimstone!

Photo 5 demonstrates the pinpoint accuracy of the charge placement.

Photo 6 shows a simultaneous multi-color display of spectacular proportions with parallel launching arches.

Photo 7 To see this spinning around, like a dazzling toy top in real time, is magnificent.

Photo 8 is the proprietor of many discretely placed fireworks charges all along 101 from bottom to top.

Photo 9 is an example of erupting color - a green mix predominance unlike anything seen before at Taipei 101.

Photo 10 is a final shot showing the 101 building as it appears to glow hot beneath the rising smoke after the fireworks had ended.

 Photo 10: Taipei 101 looks hot & molten after fireworks!