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Re: Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?

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Post by cr0sh »

I'd like to see this project revived and expanded:

https://github.com/omni360/assemblino.js

There used to be a site to try it out, but now you'll have to clone it and start it up locally yourself.

It's basically a javascript/node webgl robotics simulation kit; you can even interface your simulation to an Arduino to have the simulator control a real robot.

There's various "parts" models (wheels, servos, etc) included, which are just javascript object definitions; plus a variety of basic components that can be "glued" into larger assemblies.

I'd like to see it enhanced and expanded; from that perspective, I'd like to see:

1. Additional "real world" platforms supported (raspi, beagleboard, etc)

2. This could arguably be done via integration with something like http://johnny-five.io/

3. Add the ability to use models built via https://openjscad.org/ (?)

4. Perhaps integrate things with https://github.com/octoblu ?

Basically build it out into a really neat toolkit for robotics, iot, and ai/ml research and fun (to that later end, perhaps add on something like http://propelml.org/ and other libraries?)...

Re: Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?

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Post by vram22 »

nextos wrote: post #5

A Linux mobile operating system (i.e. revive Mer & Maemo). PostmarketOS is trying this, but they would benefit immensely from the above 2 getting tons of help as they are basically dead.

>A Linux mobile operating system (i.e. revive Mer & Maemo).

Agreed. I had mentioned the N900 in a recent HN thread about Linux handhelds, and someone mentioned there is a new project called Neo900.

I did not know about Mer, what is it?

Re: Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?

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Post by Yetanfou »

sensen wrote: post #28
smnscu wrote: post #19

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb

It breaks my heart to see that the last blog post is from July 17, 1017 along with all the stagnant information on the community page. I had some hopes that momentum would develop after the project transferred to community governance.

This can probably be explained by the enormous effort it took to create a single blog post in 1017, just getting the right stone could take weeks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#/media/File:U_1...

Re: Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?

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Post by panda888888 »

Not quite an abandoned project, but if you want to be helpful, see if your local government publishes any data and do something helpful with it.

Here in Seattle, the OneBusAway bus tracker app was originally built as a side project, but is has substantially evolved into into its own company. https://github.com/OneBusAway

This project attempts to put a dollar value on car accidents: :http://seattlecollisions.timganter.io/collisions

Or this, which automatically scapes videos of city council meetings and transcribes the audio: https://github.com/OpenDataLiteracy/jksn-2017/tree/master/CD...

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