Brick Labs

At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR — all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s incredible technical success.

Cool video… some great intro’s to some of these robots… Google the robot for more details.  :)

Right around 12:23 – Dennis talks about how he gets some of his ideas.  What I find amazing, isn’t the fact that he keeps a journal by his bed, to write down ideas he gets while trying to sleep (lots of folks have done that…. Dennis has a cool LED pen he uses to not wake-up the wife).  What I find amazing, is that he talks about what he does with those ideas afterwards.  Some ideas are junk… sometimes his journal is blank.  Sometimes… he has a nugget. 

Watch the video to find out what he does with that nugget…