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Issue 43
Tuesday Edition
David Skaife
October 22, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
In this issue
😑📘Koala Teachers Family recap
Koala Go Playground
🛝🛠️Ultimate Hide-and-Seek a Koala Go Playground by Cedar Valley Dyslexia Services
Here is my review of a Playground I wanted to try for awhile now.
Ultimate Hide-and-Seek
Preply
🧑🏽🏫🔮Preply update Oct 2024
Another update to my Preply journey, every month things seem to be changing.
Time Flies
Koala Go Playgrounds
🐨🛝What’s on my workbench these days?
It’s big, but what is it?
Any guesses?
Editorial
✍️🃏Editorial: The incredible shrinking robot
One of the side benefits of conversation classes with a diverse group of nationalities, backgrounds, professions and personalities is where the conversations lead my thoughts.
A thought that keeps coming to the surface these days is robots. Specifically, how fast they are improving and how dexterous they are becoming.
"A mesmerizing glimpse into the future of robotics, as tiny machines construct even tinier marvels." - Image and caption created by Gemini because I asked nicely.
It won’t be long before a robot will (with a few tools) be able to build a copy of itself. We expect this to happen, is this good or bad? I think the jury is still out on that topic.
What has me thinking, is that if the robot has hands good enough to build a copy of itself, why not build a copy 20% smaller, then that smaller robot can build another copy 20% smaller, and so on, it wouldn’t take long before you had very tiny robots that cost almost nothing to build.
Imagine an army of 1 inch tall human shaped robots building incredibly small and intricate machinery and/or electronics. Drones the size of a house fly. Micro surgery that can only be dreamed of today. Or send 100,000 of them to Mars to prepare for the arrival of humans.
How small could they be built before physics prevented motors, sensors and actuators from functioning properly and new technologies would need to be developed?
Is smaller better?
Links
🧐⛓️💥Interesting Links
These are links that I found interesting but haven’t written about, there is simply too much happening these days.
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