The Podbot
You may have heard of some buzz words lately: “Blogging” and “Podcasting”. Although they are simple concepts they can be very addictive 
Anyways, my good friends Mack Male and Dickson Wong are going to Gnomedex 5.0 in Seattle this week. The have been working with Podcasting for a while at www.blogosphereradio.com. A few months ago they came up with an idea to make podcasting more mobile! In doing so, they wanted to create a robot to display at the Gnomedex 5.0 conference to help in podcasting and promote some of their software tools.
I worked on the robot with the two of them and Andrew Ng. I build the embedded system, Andrew did the mechanical work, and Mack and Dickson worked on the tablet to tablet software and podcasting tools. Below are some pictures of the robot..yes i’m leaking them! haha No one but the four of us and Tod Maffin (CBC Radio) has seen it. There is a big buzz going on right now on many blogs of people anticipating the release of the robot at the conference…some excited…some skeptical.
The robot in my words is HOT! It handles like an RC car but has the capabilities to podcast over a wireless network! (I’m such a geek). Its got ground effects and metallic trims (…it looks like we took it to China town and supped it up)!
The Podbot has been getting quite a bit of publicity lately at Gnomedex 5.0. Check out the related links below for articles.
