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Macleod Sawyer

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Roboticist × Technician [ 26 ] :: I tend to break things, usually for the greater good. I started a robotics laboratory (DNX Industries), don't even get me started on how hard that is. .[ macleodsawyer.com - dnxi.org ].
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At the art space "StandBy" [..], the installation "Paldarium Tachiko & Yasutoshi" is being held by the creative group "AMKK (Toshin, Flower and Tree Research Institute)" that pursues new values of flowers and plants. On display in this exhibition are a group of works in which pine bonsai are placed in a miniature version of the paludarium, a miniature greenhouse that was popular as a pastime for aristocrats in 19th century England. By incorporating the function of artificially incorporating water, wind, light, and sound with modern technology, we have created an environment where plants can grow regardless of the external environment.

Yknow I think that if you took someone from around 1500+ years ago to a modern electronic music artist's show you could easily convince them it was religious because look at this

that's just an ethereal being up there

Yes my ego is massive. It is entirely justified. I'm cool as fuck and tired of pretending otherwise.

If it helps I promise you're cool as fuck too.

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In the 1960s, NASA had a bunch of dummies working to bring humans to space. Well, it was just two dummies, really. Each ‘Power Driven Articulated Dummy’ was a 230-pound robot that NASA engineers designed to test space suits. One of the dummies now resides at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and the other was auctioned off.

Popular Science wrote about the dummies back in 1967. Controlled by an operator and driven by a circulatory system of oil inside tubes, each android could mimic 35 human movements, from arm and hand flexing to twisting at the waist. [x]