I spent Sunday afternoon with Professor Perkowski, his high school crew, and their parents in a conference room in the ECE dept in the Fourth Ave Building. They had a lessen on fuzzy logic and discussed its basic relationship to quantum computing for robotic operations. I haven't been around this kind of stuff in a long time, and it was a little weird. It felt familiar and really foreign at the same time. I was drawing in my notebook at one point. Everyone was really friendly, and they are really bright kids. They are all working on robots for a play written by Sriddhar about Einstein, Bohr, and Schroedinger cat. I haven't read it yet, but it sounds interesting. So, after the lesson, there was a brief demonstration of the robots. I learned some basic logicstic problems, like powersupply issues. Also, design points, and I saw that things are operating off of a network of microcontrollers, mastered by C based software.
There seems to be a lot of ways I might be able to help them out. They want to have a summer program and get more people involved which requires a brochure. I might be able to help out with the content and design, etc. Also, they have a problem with the head of Niels Bohr, and I think this might be more my thing. Everyone seemed very excited and relieved at the idea of me taking that over. He is pictured on the right above. The head has at least 4 degrees of freedom I would need to account for - eyes, head left & right,head up & down, jaw. I didn't have a lot of time to check him out, but enough to see that the proportions are definitely weird, and that this will probably be hard, but worth it. Below is Niells Bohr, the Nobel prize winning Physicist, famous for his work on atomic structures and quantum mechanics, and his, for now, faceless robotic replication.
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