Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Devil's Triangle and other devil stick tricks

 i was looking for another oldschool circus act but instead remembered of this gem

A had a chance to play a similar build few times and it was super hard, super weird, a lot of fun and lots and lots of possibilitys. I´m pretty sure there are more interesing shapes out there but i´m to lazy to make them so if anybodys in the mood i´d love to see:  S-shape, + as well as + shaped handsticks, circles, squares, a pentagram and 4 small (halfdevilsticks) combined in a center so that all non center endings are as far away from each other as possible











Monday, September 8, 2014

More Robot Sticking

I was pretty excited yesterday when i found out there´s are Devilstick Robots out there so i was writting an email to the puplishers of the "real time learning with locally weighted statistical learning" and got an answer from Stefan Schaal with a link featuring videos of the robot learning to hold a balance on his eight try and mastering the idle in about 50 trys.

here is the link

http://www-clmc.usc.edu/Resources/ResourcesMoviesRobotLearningOfMotorControl


as you can see, it´s totally awesome... thank you Mr Schaal

Sarcoman Robot with Luna Sticks





What... this has been out there since 2006 and i havent found it yet ? well thats over now omg so awesome





Sunday, September 7, 2014

Devilsticks in Science

Well jugglers been researching Devilsticks for quite some time but it
turns out that there are actually scientists researching Devilsticks
too.

i guess you´ve seen some of the juggling robots
that have been developed and it looks like someone in Tokio is working
on Devilsticks too. It seems to be a pretty early stage and the motion
shown in the videos is far away from an robot doing a real Devilstick
Propeller but still im excited


http://www.sc.ctrl.titech.ac.jp/SCHP/research/index.php?lang=e&page=DevilStick


then theres this paper called: "real time learning with locally weighted statistical learning" featuring a robot who, if i understand everything right" was able to learn a idle/tictoc and maintain it for several hundred tics.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/svijayak/publications/schaal-ICRA2000.pdf

here is a longer article which features a picture of the Robot

http://wwwiaim.ira.uka.de/users/rogalla/WebOrdnerMaterial/JugleLearning.pdf


the other thing i found is a puplication called "Feedback control of enduring rotary motion of devil stick" it´s super sciency and focussing on the propeller instead of the idle/tictoc

you can find and read the whole thing here

http://www.researchgate.net/publicatio/4057544_Feedback_control_of_enduring_rotary_motion_of_devil_stick


researching a bit more i remembered two videos featuring science and devilsticks

first we have a Devilstick Drop Test, which basicly tells you when you´ve
dropped which i believe to be pretty useless but hey... science




then we have a professor doing an awesome job using a flowerstick to explain the center of gravity to his students

 

NOBODY NEEDS MORE SHITTY FLOWERSTICK TUTORIALS

When it comes to Devilsticks i´m a nerd, part of beeing a nerd is to regulary check youtube for new videos i missed somehow (which rarely happens).
I´m doing this for quite some time and week after week there are new so called helpful tutorials showing usually a boy between the age of 8 and 15 doing a tic tac with very bad form (handsticks hold at the end , bad posture, ne pendulum movement just hitting those damn sticks) to then explain random moves they obviously haven´t mastered themselfes yet.

And often enough it´s not even one single video but a few posted within few days in between as if the 6 clicks the video got so far would be a clear signal that the world needs more shitty devilstick tutorial. I first realised this trend two years agowhen a friend got into a discussion with one of these brats after commenting on of these aand giving some advice.

Assuming on average one of these tutorials are uploaded each day this means that there are at least 1000 of these. Now the thing is with a few exeptions nobody seems to watch them, actually there have to be hundrets of these, that haven´t been viewed by anyone... but me.

The poor me that just have to go sure to leave nothing unchecked and also using the opportunity to once again get mad. And thats what i´m going to do now.

A. IF YOU ARE USING A FLOWERSTICK DON`T CALL IT A DEVILSTICK BECAUSE IT`S A FUCKING FLOWERSTICK

B. IF YOU DON`T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY THEN SHUT UP INSTEAD OF MUMMBLING STUPID SHIT

C: DON`T HOLD YOURE FREAKING HANDSTICKS AT THE END HOLD THEM IN THE MIDDLE

D: DON`T CALL YOURSELF A PRO, because it´s neither nice nor are you a professionel actually U SUCK, i´ve seen DOGS DOING MORE IMPRESSIVE STICK MANIPULATION

E: ITS NOT GETTING BETTER IF YOU USE SLOWMOTION

F: IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A HELI TUTORIAL WHY DON`T SEARCH IF THERE IS ONE ALREADY (hint there a several and most of them suck, if you have one uploaded, yes your´s propably sucks too)

G: NOBODY CARES (well i do but not the way you planed it) SO DON`T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH  THOSE CRAPPY NEITHER FUNNY NOR BEAUTIFUL VIDEO EDITING BULLSHIT.

H: WHATS WRONG WITH ALL UR BODYS, UR ONLY DEVILSTICKING THERES NO NEED TRYING TO LOOK LIKE FUCKING GLĂ–CKNER OF NOTREDAM

I: DON`T CALL YOURSELF AMAZING EITHER, YOU SUCK AND IF YOU REALLY WERE A DEVILSTICK MASTER THEN I`D PROPAPLY HEARD ABOUT U BEFORE

J: IF YOU ONLY HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR AN HOUR; A DAY OF A WEEK WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE NEED TO SEE IT

K: EITHER USE NO MUSIK OR EDIT GOOD MUSIC BUT SHUT UP THE SHIT YOUR RADIO OR YOUTUBES PLAYING RIGHT NOW AND HOW ABOUT HOLDING THE DAMN CAMERA STILL FOR ONE SINGLE SECOND


L: IF YOUR THE PARENT OF ONE THESE KIDS, DONT GIVE EM THE PERMISSION TO SUBMIT IT TO YOUTUBE, DON`T ENCOURAGE THEM, DONT HELP THEM DOING IT AND DONT DO IT YOURSELF SERIOUSLY WHAT ARE YOU THINKING... AND IF YOUR

M: IF YOU`RE AN ADULT AND MAKING THESE VIDEOS.... FUCK YOU, I HATE YOU

allright i guess thats it, at least i´m feeling better know, sorry if i offended anybody but i´ve been dealing with this for to long


PS. no video examples because they are children after all and insulting them in such a way really wouldn´t be nice, i you havent seen some allready they are all over Youtube, you´ll find them there