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by hugs 11y ago
The iPhone 6S is rated at 172.8 GFlops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_mobile_application_proce...
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by hugs 11y ago
"Investors, founders, managers and, often, employees have stakes that are delineated by carefully drawn contracts, rather than shares of the sort that trade on exchanges." The article doesn't go into more detail about this. W
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by hugs 11y ago
I'm trying to drive the cost down to $1-2 per pin. It's obvious the MIT team did not optimize for cost. At $20/pin (from the SparkFun link), a 28-pin display (the minimum you'd need for a 4 digit, 7-segment display clock
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by hugs 11y ago
A regular threaded-rod would be slower, but you could speed it up by using a different thread profile with a longer pitch. If speed was the top goal, though, a belt-driven system could be as effective as pneumatics, but quieter. (But then y
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by hugs 11y ago
A threaded-rod works, too.
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by hugs 11y ago
I've been working on something similar for several years. (Alas, I don't have MIT's PR budget.) I call it "PinThing" and implement the pins as DC motor powered, 3D printable linear actuators. I use limit switches to
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by hugs 11y ago
Too early (or poorly executed) happens often enough, that I don't think it's irony -- it's expected. See also: Windows for Pen Computing and the iPad.
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by hugs 11y ago
Well, they now have a business case to write that test. And if I was in test automation there, I'd enjoy working on this one.
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by hugs 11y ago
I've wanted to do this for a long time. Have you posted anything online about how you planned your trips, or have any favorite planning sites/books?
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by hugs 11y ago
I make and sell Tapster, a delta-style robot that is programmable, 3d printable, and open source. I designed it for testing apps on iOS and Android. If you have more time than money, you can download the plans and make one yourself. Otherwi
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Tindie Becomes a Part of the Hackaday Family(hackaday.com)
3 points by hugs 11y ago|1 comments
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by hugs 11y ago
I'm sure it's possible, but one way to avoid it -- turn the constant into a method: > robot.keys.ENTER() (Not great for key combos, though...)
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by hugs 11y ago
The magic of Sikuli is its use of the OpenCV library under the hood (and Tesseract for OCR). You could skip the Sikuli part and just use OpenCV and Tesseract directly. (Not easy, but theoretically possible.)
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by hugs 11y ago
Yup, Selenium has been around since 2004, and is now the basis of the W3C standard [1] for browser automation. Most browser vendors now officially support the spec. (Disclosure: I started the Selenium project. AMA.) [1]: https://
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by hugs 11y ago
I'd go for as short (but still readable) as possible. > robot.keys("Type a string") > robot.keys(ENTER) // ENTER is an integer key value (I've been thinking about this while trying to make an
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by hugs 11y ago
Not all VC. :-) Indie.vc has a cash distributions (aka dividends) option in their investment terms.
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by hugs 11y ago
It's also big enough that an actual insect could get in there and cause a bug.
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by hugs 11y ago
Compared to AutoCad/Inventor, cost and licensing are two huge differences. Antimony is open source: https://github.com/mkeeter/antimony/blob/develop/README.md
619.
by hugs 12y ago
One through a warm intro from a mutual professional acquaintance. And another through an awesome project they posted to HN.
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“Manufactured under license from Arduino”(blog.adafruit.com)
2 points by hugs 12y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 12y ago
For me, LulzBot. I own 3 of their machines (2x AO-101, 1x TAZ 3), and have been printing for two years. A big reason why I support them is because of their support of open source: https://www.fsf.org/news/lulzbot-taz-3-
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by hugs 12y ago
I didn't deride his statements because they didn't fit my worldview, I derided them for making no sense. He was the one that kept coming up with new explanations. His latest (which I quote in the post) is other-wise known as the O
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by hugs 12y ago
It wasn't just layoffs. "Stratasys also announced a $100 million write-down on Makerbot’s valuation in February." Link: http://makezine.com/2015/04/17/makerbot-lays-off-100-employe... But you h
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by hugs 12y ago
Yup, I only buy LulzBot printers (I own 3 now), pretty much a direct result of MakerBot's decision to go closed.
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by hugs 12y ago
(Author here.) I agree with you, there are several factors at play in what happened to MakerBot. I believe Bre learned the wrong lesson -- going closed might have looked like the obvious solution to their drop in sales. But the one huge adv
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What doomed MakerBot? The Osborne effect(hugs.io)
159 points by hugs 12y ago|84 comments
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by hugs 12y ago
I was annoyed with TinkerKit's wire arrangement for their 3-wire connectors. The wire order for most standard hobby servos (e.g. Hitec) are [signal, +v, g], but TinkerKet went with [+v, signal, g]. That means I couldn't easily use
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by hugs 12y ago
The biggest benefit of a stable paycheck for a few years at a medium-sized or big corp is building your cash reserves. Even if you learn nothing in that job, having 1-2 years of savings in the bank before quitting and starting your startup
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by hugs 12y ago
I have a hunch the author read someone's explanation of "machine learning algorithm" and the author changed it to "self-correcting code" along the way.
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by hugs 12y ago
I didn't really understand why tau was "better" than pi until I understood the relationship to radians. Figure 8 [1] in the Tau Manifesto was the eye-opener for me. With tau, instead of pi, I now have a more intuitive sense o

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