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> ideas are EASY That's true. I see a few things behind the monitor right now. 1) Trees. Let's do something with them, like planting them at scale, maybe mess

> ideas are EASY That's true. I see a few things behind the monitor right now. 1) Trees. Let's do something with them, like planting them at scale, maybe mess with their DNA, WCGR? 2) The window has birdshit on it. Let's build window cleaning drones. 3) Ceiling lights. These are really crap make a really smart, well designed one for office environments.

joshspankit 7y ago
3) Surprisingly enough (to me); Unifi has done just that. https://store.ui.com/collections/led/products/unifi-led-panel https://store.ui.com/collections/led/products/unifi-led-pane...
- wayoutthere 7y ago
  Their whole business model seems to be "take quality white box hardware and build a management suite around it". It's not even particularly expensive when compared to white box gear. They already covered the traditional IT MSP model with voice, data and video; so it makes sense they would branch out into facilities management (since a lot of non-tech shops are pulling office IT infrastructure under facilities anyway).
- Tharkun 7y ago
  Not fond of their colour temperature. If they had an option to change it, I'd install them all over my house.
  - joshspankit 7y ago
    Hundred percent agree. Especially if they upgraded it with >95 CRI and adjustable colour temp based on separate warm-white LED chips (not an array of RGBs).
avip 7y ago
There are multiple companies building and selling window cleaning robots. Drones are... terrible for this use case.
- MS90 7y ago
  You know, I never realized until I read your comment that "drone" seems to specifically refer to a UAV, and "robot" to a terrestrial type. Which is strange to me, since when I hear "drone" the first animal that comes to mind is an ant. I thought it'd just be a catch-all term for any kind of bot.
  - yaj54 7y ago
    A drone ant is a (fertile, male) flying ant.
- tiborsaas 7y ago
  I didn't mean a flying thing and I know multiple companies exists. Good ideas doesn't need to sound novel at their core. I can't recall now where, but heard the word drone used for robots. Maybe the boundary is getting blurrier?

joshspankit 7y ago

3) Surprisingly enough (to me); Unifi has done just that. https://store.ui.com/collections/led/products/unifi-led-panel https://store.ui.com/collections/led/products/unifi-led-pane...

wayoutthere 7y ago
Their whole business model seems to be "take quality white box hardware and build a management suite around it". It's not even particularly expensive when compared to white box gear. They already covered the traditional IT MSP model with voice, data and video; so it makes sense they would branch out into facilities management (since a lot of non-tech shops are pulling office IT infrastructure under facilities anyway).
Tharkun 7y ago
Not fond of their colour temperature. If they had an option to change it, I'd install them all over my house.
- joshspankit 7y ago
  Hundred percent agree. Especially if they upgraded it with >95 CRI and adjustable colour temp based on separate warm-white LED chips (not an array of RGBs).

avip 7y ago

There are multiple companies building and selling window cleaning robots. Drones are... terrible for this use case.

MS90 7y ago
You know, I never realized until I read your comment that "drone" seems to specifically refer to a UAV, and "robot" to a terrestrial type. Which is strange to me, since when I hear "drone" the first animal that comes to mind is an ant. I thought it'd just be a catch-all term for any kind of bot.
- yaj54 7y ago
  A drone ant is a (fertile, male) flying ant.
tiborsaas 7y ago
I didn't mean a flying thing and I know multiple companies exists. Good ideas doesn't need to sound novel at their core. I can't recall now where, but heard the word drone used for robots. Maybe the boundary is getting blurrier?