Thursday, June 21, 2012

Bandwidth as Currency

If every citizen had portions of the spectrum divided amongst us, We could use that as a currency.

We could sell it to media companies, and they could use it for their shows.

We could each have a DVR like device that combines these packets into shows.

This could be a basic welfare system.

This could potentially provide a check on our media companies that have so much power.

This could also provide assurance of free speech. (The Internet has fully tracked speech)

super long actively dampened high precision robotic arm.

I would like to make a huge 3d printer with cheap parts.

From discussions with people, the main problem is knowing where the robot is at any given time.

Then, because I want to control where the resin-extrusion-head is at all times, I have to make appropriate feedback loops...

I have to make the counter movements be very quick-- I was thinking about predicting vibrations and movement related twists and complexities.

I could do this with many strain gauges, and possibly piezo crystal sensors.

I was thinking that machine learning could help me adjust the feedback loops. From some discussions at maker spaces,  It sounds like this might not be neccessary.