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MAKE pal Jean interviewed Garnet Hertz (we covered his work in MAKE 02)"Aside from exhibiting a dead frog with a miniature web server embedded in it ( allowing web visitors to re-animate it's limbs! ), this quest has more recently lead him to using a living roach atop a modified trackball to control a 3 wheeled robot, infra-red sensors providing navigation feedback to the cockroach, with the hope of creating a pseudo-intelligent system with the cockroach as CPU!" Link.
Cyborg Roach-Man
MAKE pal Jean interviewed Garnet Hertz (we covered his work in MAKE 02)"Aside from exhibiting a dead frog with a miniature web server embedded in it ( allowing web visitors to re-animate it's limbs! ), this quest has more recently lead him to using a living roach atop a modified trackball to control a 3 wheeled robot, infra-red sensors providing navigation feedback to the cockroach, with the hope of creating a pseudo-intelligent system with the cockroach as CPU!" Link.
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Feb 9, 2006 03:54 PM
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