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Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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I'm building a new controller board for Apple Wireless Keyboard (A1314) so that I could have complete control on what each button does and add new functionality (e.g. switch b/w devices quickly, fast blutooth connect/reconnect, longer battery life, mouse control).

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Interesting. What technologies did you use here?

Go, React, es6. Swift for the mac app. .NET, Winforms and CefSharp for Windows app.

Thanks for this. So you are native on both platforms - the screenshots look really nice :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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A substitute for the conky part in my $ conky | dzen status bar. It's practically a learning exercise. I was inspired by posts like this one [1] to give the free monad a spin and after ~300 lines i'm almost done. But then I found other posts that talk about free and cofree [2] that I still can't really understand so I guess there still is some room for improvement. [1] http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/06/you-could-h…

I'd say try and finish before making further improvements.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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Not exactly a product, but I worked on building a programming community in Berkeley and helped it grow to 1,200 members. We meet twice per week. Our 100th meeting was yesterday. If you like programming, feel free to stop by.

http://www.meetup.com/codeselfstudy/

http://codeselfstudy.com/edu

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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I've been having fun the last few months by creating and launching! The latest of which seems to have struck a chord: MailScope http://www.mailscope.io adds profile data to your existing mailing list. Why? Well, if you don't ask for firstname and lastname on signup, you'll get increased conversion. But if you then want to get increased open and click rates when you actually send email, you should start personalizing…

Why not list pricing?

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Cool! I tried to sign up and keep getting an error about my password not meeting your requirements.

You can email me if you're still having issues, otherwise it requires one of the following classes A-Z, a-z, 0-9.

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently building?

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post #145

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The only real failsafes I have are overcurrent detection on the blade motor (when you hit something bad, current will spike) which triggers immediate shut-off, as well as a big red emergency stop button that will be on top of a pedestal at between knee and waist height. Otherwise I intend to implement naive obstruction avoidance to start where I detect proximity to an obstruction and simply steer away from it when I'…

Are you looking at ROS?

I have been, yes. I don't know if I'll start off with ROS, but as soon as I start attempting to use the camera for nav purposes, I'll certainly go that way.
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