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One thing that comes to mind is checking the timestamps across sensors and other topics. Two cases come to mind: * I was setting up Ouster lidar to use gos time, don’t remember the…

In my case, it’s definitely the data triage. Once I see the signal, I usually have ideas on what’s happening but I’ve been doing this for 11 years. Maybe there could be value in si…

Full disclosure, I work at Foxglove right now. Before joining, I spent over seven years consulting and had more than 50 clients during that period. Here are some thoughts: * Combin…

Location: Prague, Czech Republic Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: ROS, Python, C++, Robotics, Px4, Ardupilot, Pixhawk Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mateus…

Anyone has any stories on companies overusing AI? I’ve had some very frustrating encounters already when non-technical people were trying to help by sending AI solution to the issu…

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Prague, Czech Republic | Robotics Software Developer I'm a robotics software developer with experience leading teams and integrating software on various pla…

I’ve been consulting for close to 7 years in robotics now, robotics being a niche field I guess it has been a bit easier for me to find clients. I never had a period without a clie…

Same experience here. I also found that if they haggle on the price at the beginning they turn out very difficult to work with.

Schedule link: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/ - you will find the online stream on the page of each room.

There was a ~€20k electric car from the VW group. It was called Skoda Citigo iV but they axed it. Seems like they are walking in circles.

One thing I learned really quickly renting in Europe is to take pictures of the rental before driving off. Last time I rented a car there was a huge scratch on the side that wasn’t…

Hi HN! After close to 6 years I’m taking a break from writing a newsletter (https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/ for the interested). It was an interesting exercise in consistency (I pu…

Can you recommend any resources on nix?

I maintain a list of interesting robotics projects ( https://github.com/msadowski/awesome-weekly-robotics ). You will find a simulator section there but whether they are useful for…

Fun fact: this project might or might not have started as an open-source smart robotic gripper that you can build yourself: https://punyo.tech/

Hi HN! I recently set up DMARC for my domain as recommended by the platform I use for sending out e-mails, and now I receive ~40 e-mails a week with DMARC reports. How do you handl…

My journey is a little bit opposite to the author’s: I studied robotics and started learning programming by myself to create software for robots. There are two observations I have …

I’m about to buy all the appliances to a new place in Europe and could use some more horror stories and learn which brands to avoid. So far I’ve been told to stay away from Samsung…