This is all about an experiment I started back in July 2009, called TwiBots. Initially it was supposed to be a simple 24/7 online tweep (Michael Davis) saying a bunch of stuff randomly. But then we (Michael and I hehe) started picking out certain topics, feeding content from certain RSS feeds, filtering all content by keywords and regular expressions. When the new Retweet API came along, I wrote...
Twitter Robot in PHP: Twibots Draft
As I promised quite some time ago, I’m putting out a draft of the Twitter Robot I wrote. Make sure you read Create Your Own Automated Twitter Robot in PHP before going on. The current functionality is as follows: Tweets around the clock Tweets from RSS feeds, supporting prefix and postfix text (for adding hashtags) Retweet via the Twitter Search API and build conversation lists Shoot random...
Automated Twitter Bot in PHP: Remote Control
Hope you’ve all read the first part of this series – Create Your Own Automated Twitter Robot in PHP and got your own prototype up and running. Today we’ll be adding a remote control feature to our robot. It’ll be working through direct messages and running in crontab every 5 minutes or so. You can extend this as far as you want (adding retweet capabilities...
Create Your Own Automated Twitter Robot in PHP
The ultimate guide to creating your own personalized twitterfeed clone! Kidding… Actualy this is just a mockup, a simple prototype, which is way too fresh for any actual use. We’ll take this forward step by step. I’m not going to give out all my sources but I’ll guide you through authentication, rss lookup, parsing, thanking for retweets, and shooting random stuff at...
More on Robotics: AR-600 Moscow (March 2009)
Y’all know Russian, don’t you? Kidding.. The guys in the video talk about the development of robotics in Russia, why people are afraid of robots and why they shouldn’t be (the three laws of robotics by Asimov). This “thug” (AR-600) can now make some steps back and forth then side to side (though they don’t show them on this exhibition, cause it requires a...
AR-600 in Moscow
Okay, these are kind of old from an exhibition in Moscow in like December 2008. Previously hosted by Flickr, and today I decided to have duplicates here, ’cause Flickr will not display more than 200 photos from my photostream, so here’s probably a safer place (unless my hosting provider messes up). This is an android robot, similar to Honda ASIMO. It’s called i-Van and the model...
Robotics in Russia
Hey, just had another exhibition here in Moscow, and we’ve finally presented the new AR-600 android robot. It looks a lot like ASIMO, but it’s totally new. It doesn’t know how to walk yet, but that’s only a matter of time – the mechanics are strong enough to hold that 100 kg robot on one leg! If anybody’s interested, be sure to check out the photos and videos...
A Robot Playing Ping Pong!
Woah. This is wicked! I wrote a ping pong game that had an AI player about two or three years ago in C++, the algorithm isn’t very difficult to figure out, but here’s one built-into a robot! RoboCup claims that they’ll win the international soccer championship by 2050, and I think table tennis will be much easier (because japanese are the best in robotics AND table tennis ;)