Cool thing of the day: wheel-legged robots https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/wheels-are-better-than-feet-for-legged-robots
I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen more of them in sci-fi depictions of robots. They seem like a natural combination: you get the advantages of both form factors while mitigating their weaknesses.
In some news of a personal variety: my first published paper as a First Author just got publicly released! It's only a workshop paper, but still feels like an accomplishment.
Open access link, because all good publicly funded science should be publicly accessible: https://github.com/HPCSYSPROS/Workshop20/blob/master/Log-based_Identification_classification_and_behavior_prediction_of_HPC_applications/ws_hpcsysp106s1-file1.pdf
Robots, AutoHotKey
I get if you don't want to make your industrial biorobotics interface code open source (I don't like it, but I get it). But at least give me some APIs or a way to interact with it besides your menace of a GUI. A robust CLI, perhaps.
Otherwise I have to figure out how to puppet it using an AutoHotKey script, and nobody wants that. Not you, not me, not Dr. Steve the biologist who has to rely on my ability to foresee every corner case of interacting with your GUI. Ugh.
@fribbledom Huh. News to me, but this might be relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/i2v3gh/sunlu_spla_filament_printing_issues/
Update: it turns out the problem was with the renderer, and not my bezier patch code. My honor as a Computer/Math nerd is restored.
Update: it's been so long since I've used Unity. I've regressed. Also, they've changed some stuff in newer versions (I think). This'll be fun!
My personal struggle with tech is that I know the coolest, "best" gadgets and software and tech that I have always been passionate about is inextricably tied up in large, amoral, fundamentally profit-seeking and privacy-eradicating megacorporations with incentives that fundamentally do not align with their customer's and user's best interests. But I still love the tech, and then just end up feeling guilty and sad every time I think about it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/159339/biden-democrats-2020-campaign-promise-good-governance
"It is incumbent on those who reject revolution to make the current system not require it" and "simply fix shit and govern well". The most succinct summary of my feelings about the world I could ever hope to synthesize. Seriously, I just want a government that works well for all its citizens.
Either that or on the shaft.
+1 for Eleventy, very easy to get started with and super flexible.
Ryan D. Lewis | I'm a master's student/developer/researcher/roboticist who writes free and open source code in his (admittedly limited) free time.
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