Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped

Very interesting. This might have some military applications as well. Could be used for recon footage in difficult environments. Such as, mountains and deserts.

Re: Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped

#5

Post by zxexz » Wed, May 27, 2020, 2:49 AM UTC

Cool project! Code is quite easy to follow, IMO.

Somewhat off-topic, but I find the name somewhat amusing. I would never seriously hold a name against a project, but I’m always curious when one is named something a bit...edgy, without an obvious reason - and at the expense of making it harder to find!

Re: Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped

#6

Post by TheSpiceIsLife » Wed, May 27, 2020, 2:58 AM UTC

zxexz wrote: post #5

Cool project! Code is quite easy to follow, IMO. Somewhat off-topic, but I find the name somewhat amusing. I would never seriously hold a name against a project, but I’m always curious when one is named something a bit...edgy, without an obvious reason - and at the expense of making it harder to find!

On the front page at the moment are projects named:

Bear - minimal blogging platform - it's a play on bare

Venom - all terrain quadruped - snakes are all terrain?

Zoox - self-driving-car tech - half the other self-driving-car companies have nonsense names

Facebook - I still find this a smart name for the service

Looking Glass - 3D display - confused me for a second with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_server

Surfboard - audio feature extraction using ML - nonsense name

Plywood - cross-platform C++ framework - nonsense name, okay I sort of get it

I work in the steel fabrication / construction industry, so the material / construction technology related names catch my attention a lot and I wonder about them.

Naming things is hard. Naming things that didn't exist last week must be even harder!

Re: Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped

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Post by ge96 » Wed, May 27, 2020, 3:14 AM UTC

what is "all terrain" eg. snow, I guess if the snow is packed

still that's an arm chair comment from me, I have not personally built my own walking robot

Re: Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped

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Post by ge96 » Wed, May 27, 2020, 3:14 AM UTC

ebg13 wrote: post #3

Why does it move so slowly?

probably because it's not using special brushless actuators rather regular servos also the platform design does not seem fast eg. compared to the shape of a dog or a human

Re: Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped

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Post by lsc » Wed, May 27, 2020, 3:15 AM UTC

zxexz wrote: post #5

Cool project! Code is quite easy to follow, IMO. Somewhat off-topic, but I find the name somewhat amusing. I would never seriously hold a name against a project, but I’m always curious when one is named something a bit...edgy, without an obvious reason - and at the expense of making it harder to find!

Eh, I don't really care about 'edgy' but it bothers me that so many projects, especially when those projects are computer commands, are hard to search on. Like, ss or ip. I mean, in those cases, they're central enough to my world (I'm a sysadmin) that it's worth just memorizing to the point where I rarely need to look it up, but looking up an 'ip' command is way harder than looking up an 'ifconfig' command. Not everyone writes "Iproute" before pasting their 'ip' command.

I mean, I think it's less of a problem for projects that are not commands... really my whole complaint is that a lot of the commands in my universe used to be super unique; you aren't going to get a lot of off the wall results for lsof or ifconfig; but ss and ip? yeah, even when you limit it to my work context, you get conflicts on those.

Re: Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped

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Post by smokelegend » Wed, May 27, 2020, 3:19 AM UTC

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #6

zxexz wrote: post #5

Cool project! Code is quite easy to follow, IMO. Somewhat off-topic, but I find the name somewhat amusing. I would never seriously hold a name against a project, but I’m always curious when one is named something a bit...edgy, without an obvious reason - and at the expense of making it harder to find!

On the front page at the moment are projects named: Bear - minimal blogging platform - it's a play on bare Venom - all terrain quadruped - snakes are all terrain? Zoox - self-driving-car tech - half the other self-driving-car companies have nonsense names Facebook - I still find this a smart name for the service Looking Glass - 3D display - confused me for a second with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_ser…

"Naming things is hard. Naming things that didn't exist last week must be even harder!"

Indeed, this is not something many people appreciate...

Salute!