Found this today, nice to see M$ getting it's back-side kicked. I wonder how much this will cost everyone in Europe.

I'm sure you all probably know about this already, but I thought these images are truly stunning.

I was reading today about Robots Warriors being used to fight wars as opposed to Regular Soldiers etc. I just hope they find a way of programming these thing to reconize the difference between civilians, forced to carry weapons and unarmed adversaries hiding behind them.

I've decided to change my NAS drive (would work just as well for a USB drive) into a feature. Rather than a black box sitting by my PC. This is one of the sites that inspired me.
I'm going to change it into a tank/trash compactor robot loosely based on mek-quake from 2000AD comic.
My first challenge is to build a box big enough for a 3.5" drive (externally 4", why not a 4" drive?) and small enough for a 1/35 scale tank.
What I really need is a workshop but failing that I have just done my first bend of alumin(i)um sheet. This was a test to see if I could do it with what I have to hand and it was fairly successful. What I now need is a vice, large hacksaw and mole grips or just some time in a well equiped workshop.



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Found this by accident, the boffins really had their thinking caps on for this one:

I'm not sure about this one, sounds like sheer lunacy to me:

http://news.sky.com/story/1057890/mars-mission-tito-project-seeks-married-pair

The US agency DARPA to make a new X-Plane to investigate improved VTOL capabilities:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130228-x-plane-plans-for-radical-takeoff