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BIC Setup Beckman South is always one of the stars of the show. |
Fun with MRI It's not a real machine, of course, but it still looks cool, and the kids like it. |
Bryan and the Immersadesk Showing off our research in the background. |
3D Color Printer Dean was showing off that most excellent of toys. |
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3D Color Printer Output Really, you should try to find one and get a sample print. They're just neat! |
In Line for Tickets CAVE tickets, amongst others, were being given to those that survived the line. |
Hank and the Line He seems to enjoy the whole Open House thing every now and again. |
Laser Lab Lasers make everything better. |
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Laser Lab, II This is just down the hall from me, so it was interesting to finally see the inside. |
Cafeteria Lunch Kids in the front, Jim and John in the back. |
Immersadesk in Use This is good, since it was there to show off our research! |
ITG Staff Or at least I think they are. I should know this kind of stuff, but I don't. |
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Van Our esteemed Second-In-Command. |
BI Staff Lunch We got free food for wearing the shirts. |
BI Staff Lunch, II There's a lot of Beckman employees, you know. |
Pierre the Lecturer Our director helps out for this event too. |
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Drunk Basketball How well can *you* play basketball with impaired vision? |
LED Tiled Walls Becoming higher and higher resolution. Soon you'll be able to play Donkey Kong on your wall! |
Waiting Some day, they'll let him into the CAVE! |
Flight Simulator Well, the smaller one anyway. |
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Flight Simulator Projector Oh, Electrohome, what neat toys you make! |
To the Microscopes! Helena stood guard over the microscopes, or at least kept people out of the deserted sections of the building. |
Driving Simulator Yes, there's a car in the basement of BI. |
From Above There really were a lot of people wandering around the Open House, as you can see. |
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Teaching about Facial Recognition Or at least that's what I recall it being about. I could be wrong. |
Voice Recognition I like that I actually understood the graphs. It's a rare thing in this building. |
Voice Recognition Team Directly below my machine room lie those that want to better recognize voice sounds. |
Back at ITG Don't touch them, you fool! |
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PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH Lots of output from the color 3D printer, again. |
Mom playing Basketball With the drunk goggles. Go Mom! |
Mom and Drunk Goggles Hehe. |
3D Parents Checking out our group's research. |
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Jack and the Immersadesk He really wanted to touch the molecules. |
Jack in the MRI Pressing buttons, for some quick experiment. Fun. |
Jack and BugScope It's a lot of fun wandering through EOH with a nine-year-old. He was so excited! |
Jack and the Self-Healing Polymers There should be a series of adventure books about his journey through Beckman. |
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Newmark Robot Dana used to work in Newmark, so we figured we had to stop by. |
Big Crushing Robots Those were cool presses, and some cool science behind them. But we'll talk about them another day... |
BattleBots 2007 Okay, it had a different name than this, but I don't remember it. |
Random Robot The point was that it was a design competition and face-off. |
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Random Robot, II The robots were meant to move hula hoops and frisbees to baskets in different sections of the main arena. |
Random Robot, III So it was competitive, but not really directly so... |
Battle Begins Okay, enough talking - fight! |
Battle in Progress The robots head towards their targets. |
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Towards the Hoops First of all, let's pull a hula hoop out of their storage. |
Lifting the Hula Hoop Getting it out of there is the first step... |
Successful Lift ...and is worthy of praise on its own! |
Another Way But the frisbees were just as good. |
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Placing the Hoop It was all fairly complicated and neat, and it looked better when the lights went out. |
Real Battles At this point, the robots started fighting directly, which I don't think was within the rules. |
Fallen Robots He fell off and onto his back! What an incredible turnaround! |
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