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Renaissance Roboticist

WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
edited 2015-04-18 07:53 in Robotics
Leonardo da Vinci was not only an artistic genius, architect, scientist and inventor. He was an honest to goodness Renaissance Roboticist! He essentially designed mechanical devices that were "programmable" using interchangeable cams. Worth wasting some "Googling" time on...

Here is a link to a post on my blog about connecting da Vinci's robotic knight with the robotic's club at my children's school. Their mascot is the Warriors and they use a knight... By the way, they have a really good robotic's club... It is a Catholic school, but maybe they need a little Episcopal support!

See http://www.roboticsunderthestole.blogspot.com/2015/04/renaissance-roboticist.html

Comments

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,257
    edited 2015-04-17 10:45
    Yup, Leonardo de Caprio, oops, da Vinci would definitely be on my "dream dinner guest" list. As are you, Whit+!
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2015-04-17 10:55
    Very nice blog post, Whit! (of course, it cost me $13.99 to read it - darn Amazon links!!)

    Leonardo (the important one) would be a fascinating dinner guest. I imagine you would be need to be careful where you took him, today's world would be incredibly distracting to him. A night of, "S
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,257
    edited 2015-04-17 11:14
    mindrobots wrote: »
    ... today's world would be incredibly distracting to him.

    Agreed, I could see him becoming fixated on doing robot figure 8's, and how a sideways 8 is also the symbol of infinity...

    He might like the "Robot Revolution", too : http://www.cnbc.com/id/102592037 Nice ant and bartender in there.
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2015-04-18 07:53
    Once erco introduced Leonardo to ebay - we'd really be in trouble!
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