My beautiful MC is ready, her hair is like a weeping willow.
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Oh. Oh there’s a lot of fellow Metal Fighters on this site. Um…
Big mistake…?
Okay, think positive, think positive… Maybe some of them are friendly? And won’t just…out…me?
-sigh- What am I gonna do? Someone’s bound to notice and I don’t want them coming here. Not while some others are keeping me safe from Eggman…
Wait. Oh, there’s someone now! My first follower! Seems unfamiliar, though. Who could that be?
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mm-8b (2017) by Shinichi Yamashita, Japan. The mm-8b “Camera Mouse” competed in the 2017 All-Japan Micromouse Competition but it had to retire in the qualifying round. The first images above provide a plan-projection point-of-view from the mm-8b running the maze in the preliminary round. The second graphic is derived from the mm-8b’s runtime log showing maze walls as they are detected. Notice how it peeks over the top of the walls ahead.
“In the 2017 tournament, I was able to complete the qualifying round with the improvement of camera image processing and driving control. However, I didn’t make it to the final because the time was too slow. The shortest path had been calculated, so I ‘borrowed’ the maze after the preliminary round, and I was able to run it in 17 seconds and 5 seconds. The mm8b camera works at 1280x720 30fps. The 1280x720 image is converted by software in real-time, calculating a 64x64 pixel image as it would be seen from above. On the left is the brightness image, and on the right is the red color difference image [picking out the red tops of the maze walls]. The 2017 tournament venue had good lighting conditions and the bright and uniform lighting made it easier to recognize the walls. I added a headlight in case the light was dim, but it was not necessary. Even so, it seems that the detection of some walls was wrong.” – Shinichi Yamashita.
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Эффект «зловещей долины» в действии: в Китае представили робо-девушку Moya
Китайские инженеры вышли на новый уровень реализма. Их новая разработка Moya настолько похожа на человека, что становится не по себе.
В чем фишка:
✅ У робота есть система терморегуляции — температура тела такая же, как у человека (36,6 °C).
✅ Силиконовая кожа имитирует человеческую, а пропорции и мимика проработаны до мелочей.
✅ Moya может быть консультантом в магазине, горничной или просто «компаньоном» для общения.
Продажи стартуют уже до конца года.
📌 Будущее, где роботы живут среди нас, официально наступило. Вы бы решились на такого «сожителя»?
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Murder Drones Twins Adopt (OPEN)
》Sylveon Chaotic Twins Disassembly Drones
▪︎LF: $17 USD/Euro (Paypal) or 48 BRL (Pix) - (Art or Ocs ONLY as an add-on!!)
•Art and design by me!
》 IMPORTANT!!
•Payments must be made within 24 hours (if not on hold), otherwise I will put it up for offers again.
•This is a two-in-one, meaning you are buying two characters at the same time. It is strictly FORBIDDEN to separate both characters (leaving them as unrelated characters) or to sell them separately.
•You MUST have a Toyhouse account to purchase any character from me. If the person does not have one, I reserve the right to refuse the offer.
•Can resell the character only after a week.
Only resell for a higher value ONLY if you have extra artwork. Characters gained for free or in trades can only be sold for some value if they have extra arts purchased
•DON´T make major changes to the design that make it unrecognizable from the original design!
•Holds are accepted for up to one week, MAXIMUM two weeks. After that, the oc will return to offers.
•If you own a design of mine, please DON´T delete it from Toyhouse. Just leave it as “Only me”
•For more information, read here: https://toyhou.se/~literature/239546.tos-terms-of-service (T.O.S)
If you have any questions, just ask!
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mm-8a (2016) by Shinichi Yamashita, Japan. The mm-8a “Camera Mouse” competed in the 2016 All-Japan Micromouse Competition but didn’t get through to the finals.
“In the 2015 MM-8, I was unable to suppress motor cogging, resulting in unstable operation. Therefore, I decided to build my own motor. A 5-megapixel camera is mounted facing upwards, and a mirror (front view) tilted at approximately 42 degrees captures the view ahead. The camera’s horizontal field of view is approximately 40 degrees, but the mirror is slightly bent into a cylindrical shape to enlarge the horizontal field of view. Additionally, two small mirrors (side view) are provided to view the left and right sides of the main unit, enabling detection of walls located one cell away. The drive system consists of two synchronous motors mounted on the left and right sides of the outer rotor, with d-Nano tires fitted over the rotors and used as the drive wheels. The motor used in the 2015 MM-8 was an AD-C5, which I obtained from HobbyKing. This is an outrunner 3-phase brushless motor for RC airplanes and drones. This motor is designed to achieve high torque at high rotational speeds, so it’s not suitable for direct drive use in the drive wheels of a mouse. In particular, it has a large cogging torque, which is a problem. … Therefore, for the 2016 competition, I decided to build a motor from scratch, aiming for minimal cogging. I retired in February of this year, and as a retirement gift, some of my colleagues presented me with a small CNC machine, the KitMill-Qt100. I decided to use this to machine metal parts. … In the motor I built, I reduced the gap between the stator magnetic poles and further tilted the gap relative to the axis (by adding a skew) to minimize the change in magnetic resistance associated with the rotor’s rotation. This significantly reduced cogging.” – Shinichi Yamashita.
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March of Robots - Day 16: Baring
For day 16 of March of Robots I decided on another quick one, this time it’s a Fakemon from my own Pokémon region.Baring is a common steel type Pokémon that likes to help humans, especially during the industrial revolution by powering up certain machines while hoping to be treated like friends in return.
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The Weakness of Flesh
Your imperfections will be smoothed over and turned to chrome.YCH won by scarlet-rose.
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mm-8 (2015) by Shinichi Yamashita, Japan. The mm8 “Camera Mouse” competed in the 36th All-Japan (half-size) Micromouse Competition in 2015 and is the first mouse in the half-size competition to be equipped with a camera.
“Unfortunately, it lacked stability and retired in the preliminary round but was allowed to advance to the finals. Of course, there was no way to improve much in the night leading up to the finals, and I had to retire in the finals. Still, we got the ‘special prize’ by incorporating a half-size camera and being able to drive to some extent while recognizing the image of the wall in a bend. There are several reasons why it was not stable this time, but the main reason is that the brushless motor used for the motor has a large cogging, and it was not possible to suppress it.” – Shinichi Yamashita.