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I am currently trying to get scoring for a little two lane community center going. I would love to get up with you and learn how this works. I was toying with writing it myself with the help of AI but I haven't gotten it off the ground yet. I would like to pick your brain about it. Happy to take it off HackerNews.
Heh - do you have a "blog" (ala jwz's DNA Lounge)? (This is the kind of retiring from IT tale that I love to read and follow the trials and tribulations of over the years - good luck, thanks for open-sourcing your work!)
man I haven't thought of that blog for like 20 years. crazy how many old blogs and web comics that I used to check every day that I've mostly forgotten about.
My dailies continue to be; Antipope (Charlie Stross), Whatever (John Scalzi), Contrapositive Diary (Jeff Duntemann) and the aforementioned jwz...
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It does. But it's nothing special. This isn't "software engineering applied to a physical system". This is just software (and some hardware) engineering. This is just engineering. Making things to do things. You want to do something and you make a machine that does it.
Fair point. I think what I found interesting was using modern, affordable hardware to replace an expensive proprietary system.
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I once expected an aftermarket industry to pop-up to hybridize old cars. Old rear-wheel drive manual cars sound easiest. Generator attached to the flywheel instead of the starter motor, and then find some way to squeeze a drive motor by the rear diff (probably more complicated, but surely not impossible). I thought something might pop up once companies like Bosch started making generic e-axles for manufacturers to us…
We had a guy give a talk at our local nerd meet-up about doing this to an old landrover with the hopes of commercialising it. Did a good job, but it was only for someone with money to burn. Looks like he did commercialise it: https://www.jauntmotors.com/series I recognise some of the photos from back then.
Still very cool to see and I hope it goes well for him. The more options the better.