I'm looking for an accountability partner to meet with for 30 minutes once per week for the next few months over Zoom. I have a cert that I'm working towards completing and am procrastinating on. The way it goes is we schedule a weekly meeting where I tell you what I'm going to have completed by our next meeting, and then you do the same. At the next meeting we ask each other how that went and repeat. It's honest and transparent, but we don't judge or try to fix it. I'm available during North American hours.
Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
#152I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engine…
This is a great project. Orbi systems are so expensive. Are you basing your work on any open source mesh projects? Do you have a project site or GitHub where people can follow along?
Great question. The *WRT (OpenWRT primarily) communities are clearly the winning universe around this and we should take (with generous attribution) what we can from that world, but I've yet to see a real DIY hardware implementation. These Orbis are honestly very powerful individual routers, so I suspect there's a real thing around their hardware, but I bet DIY can find a way... what do you think?
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
#153I have a project that I've been noodling around for many years, never really making much progress (life is eventful, eh?) What I really need is your attention. I tend to lose motivation if I'm working in a vacuum. Please let me know you find this interesting or even inspiring.
I want to make large flying buildings.
- Large: several kilometers or even larger.
- Flying: they spend most or all of the time in the air.
- Buildings: containing people and infrastructure.
How do we make them? There are two areas to address:
- The methods of manufacturing them.
- The path from here & now to full production and deployment.
The last time this "Who wants to Collaborate?" thread went by (last month) a couple of people were interested, so I posted an old site talking about it to https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/ It still needs some clean up and updating. I also set up an IRC channel on libra.chat and have been hanging out there: irc://irc.libera.chat/#MagnusMotive
The basic idea is to make huge geodesic cellular kites with Magnus effect propulsion and lift. https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/Cellular-Fracta...
Two other aspects of the project would be good to mention here: First, the primary motivation is to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (and other ocean gyres) by collecting and reprocessing the plastic etc. that's floating out there. Second, I want to make and use extremely simple computers systems to control these robots (the cellular geodesic flying machines are made out of swarms of geodesic flying drones.)
I know this probably sounds crazy, but I've been over it and over it and I don't see anything insurmountable or even challenging. It's all off-the-shelf technology, and as time goes on hardware and software improvements make it easier all the time. One biggie is that I thought I would have to recruit an army of volunteers to drive the trash collector robots but now the recent advances in machine learning (et. al.) make that task (identifying trash) much much easier to scale up, eh?
Anyhow, to sum up:
Large flying buildings made from cellular swarm robots that assemble themselves into vast geodesic networks, collecting and recycling oceanic (and other) trash, using simple "provably correct" computer systems.
More details and some graphics at the website: https://phoenixbureau.github.io/MagnusMotive/ or come on by the IRC channel (libera.chat #MagnusMotive) and say hi!
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
#154How crazy would it be to create an alternative to Locast, but using P2P tech to stream volunteer antenna video data? I was thinking to encode it in mpeg4/HLS and use webtorrent to distribute the stream -- that way a non-profit org could reasonably set it up and not have to charge money for bandwidth costs.
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
#155I've been developing web crawlers for the better half of a decade. They are used for various purposes such as cataloging sentiment/bias in news media, finding new tv shows to watch, or mapping out the Tor hidden service directory. Currently, I am writing a web crawler application framework in golang. Always looking for help or new ideas on what to crawl next! Emails welcome, check my profile.
I had posted this on Ask HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096235#30096410 ) a few days ago. Your crawler perhaps could be customized to crawl and publish an index of all available Progressive Web Apps. A naive way would be to check for sites that have a PWA App manifest file in their root folder. Let me know if you are interested in collaborating.
This looks very possible. It would only require a two modules for analysis and frontier management. It would be great to collaborate on something like this!
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#156I'm a front-end developer / artist / father. I'm trying to make a software application for families common in my situation. I have an 8 year old daughter who is very autistic and there is a huge lack in tools I feel that a family and kid can communicate with. To that end - I am trying to make a communication board tool. In my mind think of Trello board but there's not much in the way of words only symbols. Right now…
Just wanted to jump in and say this sounds like an amazing project and I hope the best for you! Make sure to do a Show HN when you get it far enough!!!
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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
#157I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engine…
Please reach out to Eric, the founder of wakoma.co
He is working on this exact thing and I'm certain he would love to collaborate.
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
#158I'd love to work with people who want to create free educative games for kids, games fun enough to keep kids playing while developing their brains in positive ways. Most games I found are infested with ads (hence not free), sprinkled with lots of dark patters and the games are not good enough I'd even pay for them. Maybe there are some free gems out there already but are quite hard to find. My kid is 4yo and it has b…
I wrote an online single player strategy game called Trek and released it on GH pages a few days ago. Link is here: https://vivegi.github.io/Trek
It is free and online. No user registrations. No trackers. No 3rd party scripts or dependencies and the entire web app is self-contained. Just HTML/CSS/JS + media assets.
It is based on interactive 3-SAT solving although I deliberately made a point of not mentioning it on the game's home page to keep it appealing to the widest possible audience, not just CompSci/SAT folks.
Would love to hear what you and your 4/yo think of it.
Of course, open to collabs.
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
#159I've been developing web crawlers for the better half of a decade. They are used for various purposes such as cataloging sentiment/bias in news media, finding new tv shows to watch, or mapping out the Tor hidden service directory. Currently, I am writing a web crawler application framework in golang. Always looking for help or new ideas on what to crawl next! Emails welcome, check my profile.
What's your opinion about YaCy: https://yacy.net?
Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
#160I'd love to work with people who want to find ways to build low cost 802.11ax mesh implementations. Think high powered raspberry pis (or their equivalents) being customized to compete with the crazy high costs of Orbi implementations. And I absolutely have zero interest in the monetary value here. RPi + wifi shields + fun is what counts. If you're interested, I'd love to team up! And I bring all kinds of nerdy engine…
This is a great project. Orbi systems are so expensive. Are you basing your work on any open source mesh projects? Do you have a project site or GitHub where people can follow along?
On the current place to collaborate, there's actually nothing. And at your suggestion, here's where collaboration can start: https://github.com/pavgup/meshitup/. Empty repositories are all opportunity. PRs welcome!