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  • Arvind Shastri published a blog post Unit 5 Learning Diary in the group COMP 266 November 29, 2024 - 12:51pm
    Please view the .zip file for Unit 5 here: Unit 5 - Google Drive Work Done For This UnitIn this unit, I added 3 high level JavaScript functionalities to my website. This started with me generally submitting ideas to the TA on what...
  • Alleeyah Madho commented on the blog Useful Piezo Buzzer sounds November 28, 2024 - 2:02pm
    Hey Michael, Thanks for sharing these valuable resources on using piezo buzzers for more dynamic alarm systems. The links to the Rickroll project and the GitHub repository with compiled songs are fantastic additions! I agree that...
  • Yiming Zang created a wiki page Final project November 23, 2024 - 2:57pm
    Background:   I have always been captivated by electronic pets, particularly iDog, because of the unique way they bring joy and entertainment to people’s lives. These devices were not just toys; they were interactive companions that...
  • Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 13 November 23, 2024 - 2:56pm
    Food for thought   While the potential for robots to help people is vast, some people believes that instead of creating technology that replaces human labor, we should focus on training people as providers of those services. With the...
  • Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 12 November 23, 2024 - 2:36pm
    Unit 12 Learning and Robots   Unit 12 made a strong impression on me, as it closely relates to my previous experience in an AI course. During that course, I worked on supervised learning and specifically applied algorithms like Naive Bayes....
  • Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 11 November 23, 2024 - 2:28pm
    Unit 11 Navigation and Group Robotics   Food for thought    Ants are tremendously effective at dead reckoning, finding their way in the vast open spaces of the desert through odometry. They seem to be much better at it than...
  • Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 10 November 23, 2024 - 1:08pm
    Unit 10 Unexpected Outcomes and Emergent Behavior   Food for thought    Besides wall-following, or following (servoing to some target), which is a natural behaviour to produce via emergence, can you think of others you might want...
  • Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 9 November 23, 2024 - 12:43pm
    Unit 9 Robot Control 5 — Coordination    Food for thought    Does it ever happen to you that you can't decide between two options?What do you do? Theories from cognitive science and neuro-sciences say that human...
  • Yiming Zang created a wiki page Unit 8 November 23, 2024 - 12:31pm
    Unit 8 Hybrid and behavior-based control   Food for thought   Is there an alternative to hybrid systems, or is that all there is in terms of intelligent, real-time robot behavior? Can you think of another way that a robot can be able...
  • Arvind Shastri published a blog post Unit 5 Pseudocode for JavaScript Ideas in the group COMP 266 November 22, 2024 - 10:11am
    Below are the variables, functions and program flows in pseudocode for the three ideas I have to implement in JavaScript: 1. Form Validation PseudocodeVariables:form, reference to form elementname, email and message, reference...

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