Looks good for robotics applications. The power density is comparable to the low end of brushless motors, and it can use hydro-carbon fuels which are about 25 times more energy dense than current batteries. At 3 hp, it…
I have a plan for overhauling/replacing Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing. The way it's done now consumes way too much design time, and honestly is a bit silly considering the inputs and outputs of the system. I'd…
There was no difference between the control experiment and fish exposed to parts made with FDM. Read the article to see how FDM could become toxic/harmful, turns out it didn't.
Very hype heavy article. No mention of Form Labs who is already on the market with a similar product.
So there was a DARPA initiative to do stuff like this back in the 90's/early 2000's: http://archive.darpa.mil/darpatech99/Presentations/dsopdf/ds... Turns out it's easy in controlled environments, and doesn't work at…
After the single lethal attack in 1945: "Several Japanese civilians have visited ... to offer their apologies for the deaths that took place here, and several cherry trees have been planted around the monument as a…
Ah, well here is where I could use some advice. I disagree with the way they have gone about their hardware both in the sensing electronics and the hive box itself. I don't want to go into it here; I'd feel a bit rude…
It's hard to say with CCD being so large and varied. One thing we know is that beehives exposed to certain pesticides [1] are much more likely to collapse. [1]…
We certainly have a microphone. There is such a richness in the sounds a colony produces. Our minimal sensing package also contains temperature and humidity sensing. We're shooting for collecting a labeled data set this…
One of my side projects is building a sensing electronics package to monitor the health and activity of beehives. The idea is to make it easier for someone just starting to maintain their hive. Any one have feedback on…
Neat. Looking forward to it.
This looks great! I'd like to use it to ease up the tech overhead for some mobile robotics applications. Is there anyway that the user's position in the world frame can be accessed? i.e. can this do SLAM over longish…
So this has popped up on HN before, and again I would caution that this is snake oil. The sparse technical details they give are misleading, and they still haven't shown that their fiber reinforced parts are anything…
Kinda disappointed the total emphasis is on him being a "hell of a good pilot" instead of the control engineers who allowed the plane to compensate for losing a wing. There's no way that plane would have stayed in the…
I did my undergrad with Jon Clark! Great guy. It's cool to see a few bio-robotics people on HN
What about convolutional neural nets? They weren't mentioned, but that's really what most of the deep learning approaches use...
Shall we not forget the MIT cheetah: http://biomimetics.mit.edu:8100/wordpress/ I like the design much better than BD's weighty quadrupeds.
(wheels are fine) I disagree with this. Try constraining yourself to a wheelchair for a week or so, and then tell me nothing can be gained from a good set of legs.
Looks good for robotics applications. The power density is comparable to the low end of brushless motors, and it can use hydro-carbon fuels which are about 25 times more energy dense than current batteries. At 3 hp, it…
I have a plan for overhauling/replacing Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing. The way it's done now consumes way too much design time, and honestly is a bit silly considering the inputs and outputs of the system. I'd…
There was no difference between the control experiment and fish exposed to parts made with FDM. Read the article to see how FDM could become toxic/harmful, turns out it didn't.
Very hype heavy article. No mention of Form Labs who is already on the market with a similar product.
So there was a DARPA initiative to do stuff like this back in the 90's/early 2000's: http://archive.darpa.mil/darpatech99/Presentations/dsopdf/ds... Turns out it's easy in controlled environments, and doesn't work at…
After the single lethal attack in 1945: "Several Japanese civilians have visited ... to offer their apologies for the deaths that took place here, and several cherry trees have been planted around the monument as a…
Ah, well here is where I could use some advice. I disagree with the way they have gone about their hardware both in the sensing electronics and the hive box itself. I don't want to go into it here; I'd feel a bit rude…
It's hard to say with CCD being so large and varied. One thing we know is that beehives exposed to certain pesticides [1] are much more likely to collapse. [1]…
We certainly have a microphone. There is such a richness in the sounds a colony produces. Our minimal sensing package also contains temperature and humidity sensing. We're shooting for collecting a labeled data set this…
One of my side projects is building a sensing electronics package to monitor the health and activity of beehives. The idea is to make it easier for someone just starting to maintain their hive. Any one have feedback on…
Neat. Looking forward to it.
This looks great! I'd like to use it to ease up the tech overhead for some mobile robotics applications. Is there anyway that the user's position in the world frame can be accessed? i.e. can this do SLAM over longish…
So this has popped up on HN before, and again I would caution that this is snake oil. The sparse technical details they give are misleading, and they still haven't shown that their fiber reinforced parts are anything…
Kinda disappointed the total emphasis is on him being a "hell of a good pilot" instead of the control engineers who allowed the plane to compensate for losing a wing. There's no way that plane would have stayed in the…
I did my undergrad with Jon Clark! Great guy. It's cool to see a few bio-robotics people on HN
What about convolutional neural nets? They weren't mentioned, but that's really what most of the deep learning approaches use...
Shall we not forget the MIT cheetah: http://biomimetics.mit.edu:8100/wordpress/ I like the design much better than BD's weighty quadrupeds.
(wheels are fine) I disagree with this. Try constraining yourself to a wheelchair for a week or so, and then tell me nothing can be gained from a good set of legs.