Welcome to the Claytronics Project

This is the test directory. Please look into hardware and software and work on the src-* files. Each src-* file will be converted into a .html file by a perl script, that at this point only runs on my computer. I know, that is going to make this hard. But, please try and work on it. If you work on the src-* file in place I will run my script whenever you email me so you can see what it looks like. The src file has a semi-coherent format.

Information is set off with <tag> tags as in html, but they are all illegal html tags. The list of tags is:

• <pageurl>
  The url of the page that this file refers too.
• <pagetitle>
  The title that should be displayed in the browser. Please change this to eliminate the "CMU" part and replace the "CMU" part with "claytronics".
• <headerimage>
  The image that will be in the header. I left these the way they were. If you want to pick a different one, go ahead.
• <breadcrumb>
  You will notice the path pointing to this page just above the middle column text. This is the text that should represent this page in the horizontal list.
• <parent>
  This is the name of the parent in that list. This is used to build the navbar on the left. So, if you are creating a new page from scratch, pick where you want the parent to be. Probably, for now, just "software" or "hardware".
• <articleTitle>
  This is the title of the article that will show in the middle gray box.
• <article>
  Here comes the article text. Just use regular html. If you want to place pictures and have them float left or right, etc. Look at one of the pages already done for an example. Othewise, it is pretty obvious.
• <pub>
  At the bottom of the middle column is a place to reference talks and papers. What is currently in the src-* file are the titles of what currently exists. please replace this with the bitex keyword from the claytronics.bib file. You can get the bibtex keyword for all entries already in the bib file from the bibtex entries on the publications page. I realize this format is broken, for example, if you want to put a reference to talk slides or something. I will fix that. So, for entries which do not have a corresponding bibtex entry, please just put in the title and we will fix later.
• <person>
  This is a list of people working on the project. Feel free to add people as necc. If you feel that someone is listed who shouldn't be, remove them, etc.
• <videoboximage>
  On the right of the page, under the people, is a mustard yellow box which is meant to contain pointers to videos or other multimedia that complements the article. The format of this box is:
  • A square image at the top
  • A list of videos
  • A title at the bottom
  Videoboximage is the tag for the image. The format of this tag is

  <videoboximage>"complete-path-to-image", "alt text for this image"</videoboximage>

  Notice quotes.

• <video>
  FOr every video you want listed in the box have one of these tags. Format of this tag is:

  <video>"complete-path-to-video", "title for the video you want to appear in the box"</video>

  Notice quotes.

• <videoboxtitle>
  This is the title for the bottom of the box
• <greenboxitem>
  Finally, some pages have extra stuff. For every item of extra stuff you want, put one line here. Whatever you put here will be listed, one entry per line. See the planar catom page for an example.

 

 

 

To understand the future of claytronics, watch the concept video [.mov] created by Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center.

Use the links to the left to see a list of publications, some videos and photos documenting our progress, a partial list of talks we have given, and people working on the project.