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Post by azaydak »

jressey wrote: post #481
joshuaheard wrote: post #308

Scuba diving computers have become a necessary part of diving. Current models have indecipherable interfaces that hang from dongles or are worn as bulky wristwatches. I have developed a scuba diving computer HUD with a simple graphical interface placed in the diver's mask and is easy to learn and use. Also, scuba divers must maintain neutral buoyancy during the dive. The current method is manual, making it a difficul…

This is cool stuff and I wan that HUD, but I take pause with the following statement: > With these two innovations, you would not need a certification course to dive safely. There is a lot more to diver certification than learning how to control buoyancy and how to read your computer. You need to be comfortable breathing through your mouth, you have to know how to share air, you need to know how to configure and conn…

I agree. I remember doing my basic certification. 1/3 of the class almost failed just from the test that requires you to take your mask off underwater then put it back on and clear it. The second they closed their eyes while underwater they would freak out.

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Post by aakram »

noahsark769 wrote: post #534

I'm working on an Amazon Alexa app that can send your phone arbitrary push notifications. Ever since I bought a dot, I've been frustrated with the relatively high friction of sending data from the dot to my phone (why do I have to open the Alexa app to see the full weather forecast? why can't Alexa send me a link to a full Wikipedia article? why can't Alexa start composing a text for me? etc). The solution is to buil…

check this https://alexa.devpost.com/?ref_content=featured&ref_feature=...

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Post by gavanwoolery »

demonshalo wrote: post #37

Prime Factorization - Just as a fun side project. I do not expect that I will ever be able to solve it but at least once a week I learn something new about math! I've Been working on it for 3 years now and It's getting more and more fun every day. In fact, I have rediscovered so many things on my own that I thought never existed. My biggest "Eureka" moment was when I discovered factorization via the difference of squ…

I used to spend a good deal of my time looking for patterns in prime numbers - and similarly re-discovered many older theorems. It is an addictive activity for certain :)

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Post by Grustaf »

durkie wrote: post #179
Grustaf wrote: post #163

We're building a new type of wind turbine that generates energy using significantly less material, making it cheaper to install. We do this using huge fixed wing kites made of carbon fibre. Reqd more qnd follow our progress on http://kitex.tech

This is awesome! Are you hiring/accepting volunteers/do you need help? It's a really interesting project.

Thanks! We like it too... We're not hiring at the moment, but if you drop a line to "kugel at [companyname] dot tech" maybe we can find some common ground! (Except that I've also briefly been a fruit picker in Japan, great project btw!)

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Post by kevinrpope »

abraham_o wrote: post #146

http://www.eathow.com/ EatHow is a web app that helps you plan your meals and gives you recipes you can make with the food you already have. Long term Id like to completely automate grocery shopping and meal planning so all you have to do is a one-time setup where you set a budget and diet preferences and Eathow takes care of planning everything else. While anyone who cooks at home would find it useful, it would be p…

Out of curiosity, how do you get and maintain what food the user has on hand? Obviously in the long-term you'd do everything so it'd all be in the app already, but short-term do I need to enter everything I have in my kitchen into the app, and update it every time I make something or go shopping?

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Post by m-j-fox »

ncantelmo wrote: post #29

Problem: The process of getting thoughts from your head into an organized, written draft form isn't as fast or accessible as it could be. Project: I'm building a conversational UI / bot ( https://writing.ai ) that helps people write faster. The basic idea is that it asks you a series of questions about a topic, asks follow-up questions for more detail as needed, and when it's done outputs a completed draft. You're st…

Cool. I need a conversational AI to help me make good decisions about my to do list.

Orgbot: I'm sorry Dave, you won't have the energy for 3 meetings and a Meetup on Monday. Let's spread the meetings throughout the week and find something you can do in your pajamas while hung-over.

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Post by ifend »

nedwin wrote: post #266
ifend wrote: post #74

Problem: Kickstarter et al founders not communicating shipping information. I'm looking at you Antsy Labs! Project: Crowdsourced backer shipping data. A backer can share their order date, delivery date, and optionally their order number. This allows other backers to see when (if!) orders are being shipped and delivered. We can then estimate when backers should get their order. Audience: Kickstarter and Indiegogo back…

Nice! I saw someone spin up something very adhoc but similar when the Mavic drone was released and delayed. I can imagine something similar being helpful when the Tesla 3 launches but not sure how to get the shipping data...

For Kickstarter I'm accepting shipping data from founders but other than that it's going to all be crowdsourced. It will be tricky to keep the data reliable. If anyone has ideas I'd love to hear them.

I'll add the Tesla when we launch. Should be fun to see what happens!

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Post by ilaksh »

dheera wrote: post #90

Everyone is writing about their startups. My startup makes self-driving delivery robots ( http://robby.io ). But that aside, one of the things I'm working on is trying to use RNNs to create a better digital piano. Even the best digital pianos out there are far inferior to a even a YouTube recording of a concert grand piano. One of the biggest problems I notice is the complete decoupling of resonances between strings;…

Are you sure that you are comparing with the best digital pianos? I mean they have been working on more life-like digital pianos for decades, going back at least to the Kurzweil stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzweil_Music_Systems

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Post by thomastjeffery »

lloeki wrote: post #85

Problem: unsatisfied with package management on OS X / macOS Project: rekindle an old project of mine [0][1] Caveat: definitely works (as in I'm using it daily), but not ready for real public prime time as some meta+infra stuff still needs to be figured out. Will post instructions to get things running if some daring folks are interested. [0]: http://www.arch-osx.org / http://www.archmac.org [1]: https://github.com/a…

I wonder how mature Nix is on OS X.

I don't have any Apple hardware anymore, but I just wanted to mention how fantastic this package manager is. NixOS quickly became my favorite OS, simply because of the sheer power of Nix.

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Post by hullsean »

Setting up MySQL to redshift replication pipeline using Kafka. Debezium provides a stream interface from binlogs to Kafka. Cool stuff.

Need to build a monitor or component to handle missing on delete cascade records.

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