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I used company money on it. I was hoping I could massage it along enough to get a workable test fixture out of it. I wanted to put together a simple hardware-in-the-loop tester for…

Adafruit probably did a review of AI PCB tools. I've used Flux.ai before; it was a pretty bad experience. After about 50-100$ in tokens a couple of times, I couldn't get more than …

If you want something more industrial Chinese arms that ape UR are 10-20k.

I'm tired. I've been at it since '89' when I was 15. Everything being on fire all the time (in the world and in my current robot project) is just burning me out. Most of my curiosi…

Is there a way to translate these into friendlier names? It would be nice if something like lidar-front.robot1.yada-fleet.bar could be made.

I’ve been doing a lot of work with ros2 lately at work. Been seeing some moves with VLA models driving robots with text prompts. I think I’m going to focus more of my “free” time o…

This seems kind of like teleport without the logging and remote infrastructure.

https://www.youtube.com/bpsspace Does some pretty informative work with amateur rockets.

I've been "Vibe Coding" this weekend with the vibe of a micromanaging tech lead or PM. Actually, it's not terrible if you just accept that you need to treat the AI like a year 0 en…

It's fairly nice just to build a simple embedded UI. There is also a useful editor now, though I haven't used it. It was implemented as a stand-alone program, I would have preferre…

What computer is Harper talking about here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7ZHpKuqZg&t=375s

I think it’s just nudging the wheel that is going away. Attention detection via camera is still in effect for FSD. And it won’t start FSD without being able to see you.

I'm not sure if this is good or bad. I use an M5Stack tough for one of my products. It works ok, but I really wish M5 had some more OEM friendly options.

I need to make a little MQTT communications system for some field devices. I should probably just give up with AWS and Azure for IoT and just roll my own. Though they did have some…

My guess would be barring some metallurgical mistakes the stainless surface is getting contaminated during production. We do a decent chunk of stainless steel production where I wo…

I'm sure the technology will work fine when everything is perfect. But much like autonomous cars, when things are imperfect they will probably start to fall apart.

There were other boat launches in Frankfort and Empire they could have used, maybe 20 minutes away. That river is not very traversable as it has a weir on it.

Seems like the same sort of whinging people do about traction control. “Trust me bro I need total control and traction control makes me unsafe” etc. Same sort of thing with people …

Same, now I want one.

The one thing I would really like for ethernet is a smaller connector. But one that is still able to handle self-made cables. So something like just throwing a Type-C connector at …

People have waaaay too much faith that motorized devices won't injure or kill them. Even motorized lie flat seats in an aircraft can probably break something. Many of these devices…

I had a manager that loved these things. He would shoe horn eBay one’s into any gambling backend he did. It was terrible, impossible to support and made accomplishing anything a ch…

They kind of came to be when the Bush financial meltdown happend. Unemployment was getting high in the late 00's. People were trying to develop new skills or build cottage industri…

China won't be able to unless they develop the tech domestically.