Just hacking away on https://qvault.io mostly. Thinking about raising some cash and going full time on it.
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#182Trying to figure out how to build a commercial viable CRM for real estate niche as someone who works in fintech - C#/Java backend guy. Nailing down on unique UI/UX is hard.
As a primarily backend C# guy myself, I'm curious if you considered Blazor? I find it intriguing and if I had the motivation for a personal/side project I'd likely do an initial proof of concept with it.
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#183Hah this thread is perfect. I just finished building my new four axis robot arm design. It’s all open source. Three months ago I started playing with a new planetary gearbox concept, where the first stage is in the middle with second stages on both sides. The first sun is driven by a shaft that goes through a hole in the second stage sun. The result is a very balanced joint design with parallel outputs. A good config…
Wow awesome. This is one of the most impressive arms I've seen.
How much did it cost you to build?
About how many newtons can you excert when fully extended? / What weight can you lift?
What is your experience with backlash?
Definitely considering forking
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#184I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…
Happy birthday! No great answers to meaning of life, but work focused on societal contributions helped me. In 2009 I was burned out on consulting for banks and telcos, switched to focusing on public sector challenges. Lots of needs for purpose-driven design, dev, product. Also coaching and mentoring, especially for social innovation. Have yet to hit lottery, and make less than I could with industry clients, but better for my sense of making a difference.
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#185Getting back into 3D modeling (not professionally, I'm a data engineer by day).
Working on some assets for a new scene. Here's my most recent render: https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/qiklmf/practicing_...
Along with some of my other recent work: https://rupsis.gumroad.com/
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#186Launched https://caratdrop.com/ - a secondhand diamond marketplace - a few months back but don't have the audience and marketing to such a small and hidden sliver of customers is difficult. Rethinking the idea, maybe as a discovery website for people to find custom jewelers, with an emphasis on ethical and sustainable practices. If anyone thinking about buying an engagement ring, happy to chat! roger[at]caratdrop.com…
Don’t forget about those of us who wouldn’t mind spending a few hundred on diamonds pretty regularly but dropping $10k is a once in a lifetime event. We also likely have kids who would spend less but non-zero for mother’s day etc.
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#187Hah this thread is perfect. I just finished building my new four axis robot arm design. It’s all open source. Three months ago I started playing with a new planetary gearbox concept, where the first stage is in the middle with second stages on both sides. The first sun is driven by a shaft that goes through a hole in the second stage sun. The result is a very balanced joint design with parallel outputs. A good config…
Wow awesome. This is one of the most impressive arms I've seen. How much did it cost you to build? About how many newtons can you excert when fully extended? / What weight can you lift? What is your experience with backlash? Definitely considering forking
Thank you! I had all the parts lying around and I’ve not put together a full BOM to calculate costs. But it’s two odrives and four brushless motors plus maybe $100-150 in bearings from AliExpress, then some screws and a couple kilos of PETG. So maybe $850 if you built it from scratch?
I haven’t done testing of its capabilities yet as I just got it working today. Also I am running at 24v but I want to try 48v when I can upgrade my odrive controllers to the 56v version.
Not sure about backlash either except joint 3 has bad backlash not due to gearing but from a fixable issue with the way the output connects to the frame.
But I am very happy with this design! I think it’s pretty promising.
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#188Hah this thread is perfect. I just finished building my new four axis robot arm design. It’s all open source. Three months ago I started playing with a new planetary gearbox concept, where the first stage is in the middle with second stages on both sides. The first sun is driven by a shaft that goes through a hole in the second stage sun. The result is a very balanced joint design with parallel outputs. A good config…
Wow awesome. This is one of the most impressive arms I've seen. How much did it cost you to build? About how many newtons can you excert when fully extended? / What weight can you lift? What is your experience with backlash? Definitely considering forking
In the beginning of the pandemic I've attempted to build a 6 axis arm from this project https://www.anninrobotics.com/
Overall great documentation, and the author also sells hardware kits so you don't need to source all gears by yourself.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow awesome. This is one of the most impressive arms I've seen. How much did it cost you to build? About how many newtons can you excert when fully extended? / What weight can you lift? What is your experience with backlash? Definitely considering forking
In the beginning of the pandemic I've attempted to build a 6 axis arm from this project https://www.anninrobotics.com/ Overall great documentation, and the author also sells hardware kits so you don't need to source all gears by yourself.
Fun! In my case all the gears are 3D printed so there’s no sourcing issues. Tho those designs are more finished than mine!
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#190I've been contributing to the IRC ecosystem again. Working on bringing some IRCv3 [1] features to The Lounge [2] right now.
Tryna do some neat things with the virtual tabletop I've built (Shmeppy [3]) as well. Getting its renderer off of the 2D Canvas API and onto WebGL, as well as some of its more perf-sensitive code onto WASM.
[1] https://ircv3.net [2] https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge [3] https://shmeppy.com