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by hugs 13y ago
I spent the last hour trying to get the example programs on the front page of the libCello site to compile on OS X (10.8.4). I discovered I was missing some include flags. This is what finally worked: $ gcc -lCello -std=c99 -fnested-functio
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by hugs 13y ago
The other lesson is: Use open source solutions. If a company drops support for something that's open source, you have the option to pay someone else (or DIY) to continue that support going forward.
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by hugs 13y ago
If you live in the future, you know more work is and will be done by robots. However, there will be human jobs for designing and programming robots... So, start a robotics company!
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by hugs 13y ago
My solution to the "what to print" problem is construction toys. (The current crop of consumer-grade printers are already good enough for this.) I'm creating an entire toy system ala Lego Technic that's meant to be printable. I call it "bit
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by hugs 13y ago
This is awesome! It's a shame this didn't get more votes or more comments when originally posted. (Sometimes I wonder if HN just isn't the right place for 3d / maker stuff.)
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by hugs 13y ago
Wow! Awesome! Sorry I missed it when you posted this the other day. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5775859 ) OpenSCAD in JavaScript is worth a top-post all by itself. I know of OpenJSCad and CoffeeSCAD, but I prefer the simplicity o
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by hugs 13y ago
I see the opportunity. :-) Which is why I'm creating a 3d printable system compatible with LEGO Technic that I call "Bitbeam". Printing my own beams is about 1/7 the cost of buying Lego bricks, and I can design parts that Lego doesn't make,
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Dillinger, the Last Markdown Editor ever(dillinger.io)
2 points by hugs 13y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 13y ago
Dillinger. It's open source, so you can also run it locally or on your own server. It's also a web-app, so it's cross-platform, too, of course. http://dillinger.io/
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by hugs 13y ago
Oh, hey! That's my bot. :-) Tapster is usually powered by Arduino, but I modified it to run on Raspberry Pi for PyCon this year. The source files (3d printable files and code) are on GitHub. https://github.com/hugs/tapsterbot When I'm in-
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A Robot on Every Desk(bitbeam.org)
1 points by hugs 14y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 14y ago
There are plenty of non-bros in Chicago. I live in Chicago, and have no problem successfully avoiding them.
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by hugs 14y ago
I choose to live in Chicago, but have lived in NY and the Bay Area. SF and NYC are awesome and I love to travel! :-) But I choose Chicago for a lower cost of living, which means my personal financial runway is longer, which means I can take
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by hugs 14y ago
The first live Glass demo wasn't a bunch of people at a cocktail party. It was skydivers, skateboarders, and bicyclists. Glass is going to be very popular as a sports accessory. I can see Google inking a deal with the NFL to equip every pla
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by hugs 14y ago
That's why most VCs get away with it. :-/
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by hugs 14y ago
Yes, you are misreading. Harjeet wrote a clever piece of satire mocking the insincerity of most VCs.
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MacLeod’s hierarchy, the Technocrat, and VC startups(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
5 points by hugs 14y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 14y ago
Trucks. http://allthingsd.com/20130109/steve-jobs-was-right-tablets-...
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"The Art Of Not Sucking"(gapingvoid.com)
1 points by hugs 14y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 14y ago
http://sauceio.com/index.php/2012/08/apple-sauce-android-sau... https://github.com/saucelabs/mac-osx-on-kvm
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by hugs 14y ago
I don't know why they wouldn't work on a Mac Mini. I'm not the one who did the work, so I'm not sure about upstream status. Best people to ask are Alexander Graf and René Rebe. But if anyone wants to grab the patches and advocate for them u
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by hugs 14y ago
We used QEMU/KVM at Sauce to build out our OS X / iOS cloud.
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by hugs 14y ago
That's what I'm doing with my open-source Bitbeam project. I design the Lego Technic-compatible parts in OpenSCAD. Then the parts are lasercut, milled, or 3d printed. I've shipped several Bitbeam-based robots via Tindie already, and I'm loo
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by hugs 14y ago
... and leave room for new entrants at the low-end. (This is why I think (someday) the Maker/3d-printer market will be trouble for LEGO (someday).
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by hugs 14y ago
No ETA for Android, but it's very high on our list.
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by hugs 14y ago
If you're into LEGO Technic, this is exactly why I started the Bitbeam project. http://bitbeam.org/pages/about
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by hugs 14y ago
I'm working on something very similar. I'm making a 3D-printable LEGO-Technic compatible version called "Bitbeam". http://bitbeam.org/arduino-mounting-plate I started the Bitbeam project because I was prototyping some things in LEGO, but
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by hugs 14y ago
Yes, totally. ROS support is definitely on my watch list, especially for getting an OpenGL virtual representation of what the bot is doing. I like the idea of ROS -- a publish/subscribe hub of messages between every thing on a robot -- howe
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by hugs 14y ago
"all of the parts exist to create robots". Yes, Arduino handles the software and electronics, but as I created the robot, I also realized there was another missing piece -- a low-cost open source building platform for the physical mechanics
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Robots at the Intersection of Cool and Useful(insights.wired.com)
33 points by hugs 14y ago|4 comments

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