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How would you categorize the MITS Altair 8800 (and other very early microcomputer kits): education, entertainment, utility, or something else? Put another way, if someone bought one, did they mainly do so because the…

I'm manufacturing robot development kits out of my garage, and I'll be all set to start taking orders in just a few weeks after the design is completed and functional. Is beta testing worth my time? I suppose it lowers…

Is there a good way to cheaply deploy a CNN on a embedded device, such as a robot? Perhaps, are there cheap, arduino-like micro controllers with GPUs that are powerful enough to work for sophisticated models? I guess…

i.e. which batch were they in?

I've started a company to build a mobile, consumer robot to do your laundry. The vision is that you'll be able to put your dirty clothes in a hamper, and when you get back from work, the robot will have washed, folded,…

I'm starting a robotics company and currently raising seed funds (also applied to YC S2017). I'm building a robot that can do the entire laundry process autonomously. A close relative had agreed to give me seed funding…

I'm probably overthinking this, but how best do you pay your personal bills (i.e. rent, utilities, food, etc.) while starting a company? In my mind, there are only a few options: (1) work part-time at another company,…

A month ago while getting my feet wet with deep learning, I realized that it's a pain to find pre-trained models for use and inspection, so I've been working pretty hard to build a tool to host these models that are…