Quadruped Robot Tsuki Is ROS-Enabled and Completely Position Controlled

Autonomous Systems Scientist (A&K Robotics) Lingkang Zhang has designed and built over a dozen robots over the years that range from bipedal and quadruped to rovers and drones. His latest creation is Quadruped Robot Tsuki — an ROS-enabled, highly dynamic robot that builds off his previous quadruped design (Quadruped Kaze), only it’s stronger, faster, and more robust. It’s also wholly position controlled, with no contact sensors on its feet, or any IMUs for that matter.

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Magnetized Body Hair Gives You a Sixth Sense

While your body hair can help keep you warm, that’s not its sole purpose for modern humans. In fact, most of us likely aren’t gaining any meaningful amount of warmth from our body hair—at least over most of our bodies. Instead, our body hair helps to enhance our sense of touch. It can help us detect weak air currents, or light touches.
As researchers from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland in New Zealand have demonstrated, we can augment our body hair to gain additional senses.

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All-New Fire HD 10 Tablet “2019” Review – The New Budget King?

The All NewAMAZON Fire HD 10 Tablet is here with an all-new 8 Core 2.-GHz CPU promising a 30 Percent increase in perforce from the 2017 Fire HD 10. Is it True? Let’s find out.
In this video we take a look and test out the new 2019 Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet, Run some benchmarks like Geekbench,3dmark and Antutu, I also test out some android games like Call of duty mobile and PubG mobile, and finally runs some emulators like Redream for Dreamcast and PPSSPP for PSP.
Could it be the new android Tablet Budget King?

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Newly-Released Raspberry Pi 4 USB 3.0 Firmware Drops Power Draw, Heat Output on All Models

The hot-running Raspberry Pi 4 now has a new firmware which tames its heat output a smidge by enabling power saving on the Via Labs VL805 USB 3.0 host controller chip — after developers fixed a flaw in an earlier build of the firmware which could cause selected USB 3.0 devices to perform incredibly slowly.

The Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer is an impressive beast, with up to 4GB of RAM hanging off a quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A72 CPU and shiny new Broadcom VideoCore VI GPU inside Broadcom’s custom-designed BCM2711B0 system-on-chip. Its power, however, comes at a price: As well as drawing more power than any of its predecessors, the board generates considerably more heat – enough, in fact, to hit the processor’s thermal throttle point and pull down its performance.

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A simple guide to electronic components.

By request:- A basic guide to identifying components and their functions for those who are new to electronics. This is a work in progress, and I welcome feedback from you guys on whether I should break it down into more manageable chunks. I’ve kept the math to a minimum, since it can be off-putting to someone just getting started in electronics. The idea of this video is to slot in some more of the jigsaw pieces involved in learning electronics, when you start to recognize components, but aren’t quite sure what they are or what they do.

OmniVision sets Guinness world record for the smallest commercially available image sensor

Forward-looking: OmniVision recently made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for “the smallest commercially available image sensor” called the OV6948. The sensor has a size of 0.575 mm x 0.575 mm, features a 1/36-inch optical format and an image array that can capture 200 x 200 resolution video at up to 30 fps.

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New Shield TV Pro and Shield TV First Look Unboxing Benchmarks Comparison

The New 2019 Nvidia Shield Android TV is here! well actually two new models, the Shield TV Pro and the Shield TV.
In this video, I take a look a both, with an unboxing, spec overview and I also run some benchmarks like GeekBench 3d mark and GFXBench, unfortunately, ANTUTU just keeps crashing on both devices. Coming in at $199 for the Nvidia Shield Pro and $150 for the Nvidia Shield which one is right for you?