# IRC Log Summary - May 27, 2010

Based on the IRC log, there were very few substantive discussions on this day. The main points of interest were:

• A user shared a link to Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Giovanni_Alfonso_Borelli), suggesting he might be considered "the actual father of robotics" for his early work on biomechanics.

• There was a brief discussion about RepRap and MakerBot 3D printers, with one user mentioning they had spent about 2 months building a RepRap from scratch but hadn't yet printed their first part.

• MakerBot was noted to be looking for an electronics engineer, with one user commenting that "at least makerbot admits they don't know what they're doing wrt electronics."

• A user shared a YouTube link to Willow Garage demonstrating their PR2 robot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0ovUb_LVs).

• A user described Google's Earth Cave installation - a sphere made of LCD panels with a 6DOF joystick in the middle that allows users to navigate Google Earth by standing inside and manipulating the view through the joystick.