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This post presents several upgrades to the Leica MPi, a Leica M2 with a Raspberry Pi-powered digital back. The most notable upgrade is a larger sensor capable of capturing daylight…

From the post: Blossom is an open-source robot platform for human-robot interaction (HRI) research that I developed during my PhD. I’ve used Blossom for research in design, machine…

Thanks! There is a guide available in the repo's wiki: https://github.com/hrc2/blossom-public/wiki Our contributors' forks and extensions may also be useful: https://github.com/int…

Plugging my own robot: Blossom is an open-source social robot made from 3D-printed or lasercut parts and a crocheted / knit cover. https://github.com/hrc2/blossom-public It's basic…

I've been working on a redesign of a small robot platform I designed in grad school ( https://github.com/psychomugs/r0b0 ). We designed the robot as a small robot construction kit …

Not an official startup, but I developed an open-source laser cut and crocheted social robot platform during grad school. We ran a few workshops for ~middle schoolers to build it a…

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

I've been making origami bookmarks since elementary school [1]. Recently I've been making them out of ephemera, e.g. old coupons, the receipt for the book itself. [1] https://www.w…

Sounds project-y.

> "hell is other people" Also, from the same author, "heaven is each other."

That great guy sounds like a great guy. Wish I knew someone like them.

Fish rarely know what water is.

Now more than ever, it would behoove photo-makers and -viewers - i.e. everyone - to read Sontag's "In Plato's Cave" as a reminder that there is nary a thing as a real photograph. h…

BetterSnapTool is the first thing I install on macOS.

As an Asian American, yes.

I wonder what captcha-like mechanism they'll use for annotating this new dataset for their self-driving cars. Gamifying the videos post-drive with AR?

The HBO show is great, but his Vimeo is better IMO. I particularly like 'The Road To Magnasanti' and 'How To Remain Single.'

John Wilson, the mastermind behind HBO's Nathan Fielder-produced "How To With John Wilson," shot some beautiful scenes of Vegas' Pinball Hall of Fame. https://vimeo.com/180067392 (…

> bully each other at a scale A phrase I didn't know I needed to learn.

Behind my phone, the Fuji XF10 - their answer to Ricoh's GR - is probably my most-used camera out of a cabal that includes the X100V, X-T3, and X-Pro2. It's a shame that this pocke…

"The idea of opportunity costs presumes the fungibility of human experience: all our activities are equivalent or interchangeable once they are reduced to the abstract currency of …

Thanks! I imagine this would drop in unmodified on the M3, which may actually yield a nicer experience thanks to the the increased magnification of the viewfinder compared to the M…

As simple as grabbing it off with tweezers.