You may recall that in this post I mentioned I had one on order, well it’s finally arrived and it’s a huge box with a nest of runners and bits and bobs! All looks very exciting, but I’m resisting the temptation to try and quickly build it all without taking as much time over it as I can.
I have put a few pictures into an album on picasa, as you can see quite a bit of kit! Now to get to the local hobby store and get some snips, sandpaper, files and the like 
This thing is amazing, let’s face it they have mapped most of the world using their api now, granted with other peoples data but it’s still an interface which is pretty familiar to most people. With the advent of the updated Google Earth to include the sky and space on it’s display there is now the same data (I assume) but mapped with the maps api! It’s pretty amazing that you can now not only explore your own planet but the space around it and also the other planets. I wonder how long it will be before we can take virtual space tours via Google web delivered software.
There really must be something in their offices. Check it out, BBC News.
For more interesting stuff pop into the lab. labs.google.com/
A few people were making rumblings on irc about a new thing called PicLens which turns out to be a rather awesome Firefox extension for looking at images online by creating a 3d ‘wall’ of images. It’s really worth checking out!
