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Re: Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project?

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Post by infinitone »

whataretensors wrote: post #41

I've been working on my generative adversarial network. It's a fascinating type of ML that can learn from both supervised and unsupervised data. In essence, given data it will create a generator of that data. Right now my datasets are mostly images. I have tried on audio data and that does start to work - then diverges. I'm still trying to find a configuration that works really well: https://github.com/255bits/hyperg…

This is really interesting. How much data does it require to build a generative model with say 60% accuracy for story type data?

Re: Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project?

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Post by Gruselbauer »

I have a friend who builds kite buggies out of carbon fiber. Amazing, gifted inventor and craftsman, zero love for computers. Going to build a raspi based automatic tempering and ventilation system with him as well as seeing to getting him some crowdfunding.

Other than that, I really want to turn my, ahem, indoor flower growing project into a test environment to familiarise myself with sensor based programming. Thinking something like a bubbleponics setup with automatic nutritient dispensing and stuff. Zero human input being the goal.

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Post by hobolord »

colorcoded wrote: post #8

I'm building a two person research submarine with some friends. Targeted diving depth: 100m I have an electronics/IT background so building something so mechanical is a fun learning experience. http://ubaad15.org

that's awesome, how do you plan on waterproofing all the openings?

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Post by getAidlab »

I am working on programmable J.A.R.V.I.S.

Currently, it could help with stress reduction, recognizing heart illness or overtraining detection. It's also an "open" device. Open to communicate with, and open to create apps full of health information for anything that supports Bluetooth 4.0+. Soon, I'll extend Aidlab with simple A.I module and gesture recognition, so mobile phones or the smartwatches will not be mandatory.

Site: http://www.aidlab.com (`For Developers` might be very interesting for YC community)

Blog: https://medium.com/@Aidlab

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Post by jimnotgym »

ohstopitu wrote: post #46
skanga wrote: post #26

A Flying Car. Anyone with CAD, CFD, aerodynamics skills wanna help?

me and my friend are working on something similar. We prefer to call it a drone though :$ My friend was looking into the material strength and feasibility while I was looking into the software. We intend to use a 3d printer to build a small scale model and progressively keep making it bigger. We would love to collaborate if that's ok with you. Based in Canada (Toronto) and we put ~10 hrs/week max on this project.

The only person I ever saw get a human off the ground was this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k and several build vids. He would have really benefited with some fly by wire help

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Post by ohstopitu »

jimnotgym wrote: post #66
ohstopitu wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

me and my friend are working on something similar. We prefer to call it a drone though :$ My friend was looking into the material strength and feasibility while I was looking into the software. We intend to use a 3d printer to build a small scale model and progressively keep making it bigger. We would love to collaborate if that's ok with you. Based in Canada (Toronto) and we put ~10 hrs/week max on this project.

The only person I ever saw get a human off the ground was this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k and several build vids. He would have really benefited with some fly by wire help

that + [0] + [1] inspired us to get started...

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yn2uyQJ1jc

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAdCt6qgj9k

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Post by colorcoded »

hobolord wrote: post #64
colorcoded wrote: post #8

I'm building a two person research submarine with some friends. Targeted diving depth: 100m I have an electronics/IT background so building something so mechanical is a fun learning experience. http://ubaad15.org

that's awesome, how do you plan on waterproofing all the openings?

The port holes will be acrylic windows in a window frame with O-ring seals. The O-ring will be placed on the side facing away from the water such that when the pressure rises on the window, the pressure on the seal rises as well, making it even more water proof. Same idea for the hatch.

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Post by contingencies »

badabimbumbam wrote: post #54

A very trivial implementation of TCP running atop RS232 USB converters connected back-to-back so you can run SSH over USB (or RS232) at around 3Mbps. For tunnels and stuff. 5000 LEDs drilled into 30m^2 worth of plywood, wrote a kernel driver to present the LEDs as a frame buffer on an RPi with Chromium, we (small team) mounted whole thing onto concrete slabs standing in a lake. Another RPi receives SMS text messages…

Have you seen Linux's own IP over USB support? No need for an RS232 layer. http://superuser.com/questions/593757/the-best-way-to-do-tcp...

You could even combine this with multiple cables to multiple ports (eg. 2x cables to 2x ports on each node) using the bonding driver.

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Post by tonteldoos »

badabimbumbam wrote: post #54

A very trivial implementation of TCP running atop RS232 USB converters connected back-to-back so you can run SSH over USB (or RS232) at around 3Mbps. For tunnels and stuff. 5000 LEDs drilled into 30m^2 worth of plywood, wrote a kernel driver to present the LEDs as a frame buffer on an RPi with Chromium, we (small team) mounted whole thing onto concrete slabs standing in a lake. Another RPi receives SMS text messages…

Nice projects! Do you have any photos/blog post/etc of your LED stand?
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