jonmrodriguez

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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
In the USA at least, a lot of factories can give tours if you have a friend who works there. For example, you could tour the SpaceX rocket factory in Hawthorne, CA, which is AWESOME.
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
> In an interesting twist, the factory boss suggested that we could build the precision molding tools in China and then send these tools to a US shop for running production. > This role reversal is an indicator of how the technology,
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
That's been done too! (different lab) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odJxJRAxdFU
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Completely agree. My grandma is afraid of driving & flying but she loves to watch travel TV shows. I think a VR headset with travel content would be great for people like her and would really improve her quality of life.
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
The robot hardware was the very simple part. Each leg only had 1 degree of freedom and was binary, just contracted or extended with no in-between. It was the Stiquito robot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiquito , whi
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
My 8th grade science fair project studied a very simple version of this problem! I used genetic algorithms to have a 6-legged robot relearn to walk after 1 leg was injured. It won 1st grand prize in Texas in 2004 :)
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Injection molding refers to a specific manufacturing process that Amazon is not using. http://www.vulcanmold.com/uploads/image/plastic-injection-mo...
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
As one commenter said on the comment thread of the article: No two ways about it, this IS a wire(less) tap.
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Next time it wouldn't hurt to share your son's wonder and just enjoy such amazing aspects of the world!
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Israel Bombs Gaza's Only Power Plant(freespeech.org)
13 points by jonmrodriguez 12y ago|13 comments
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
I love the story, and am currently waiting for the next installment. One very tiny nitpick is about the title; the story is (at least currently) intended for web-based distribution, and in Chrome (Mac), Chrome (Windows), and Firefox (Mac),
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
In today's world, it's valuable / necessary to teach a 2nd style of soldering as well: using a heat gun and solder paste to manually reflow surface-mount components. It's just as easy as using a soldering iron, and for
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
WTF. Blinding lasers aren't even allowed in combat during war, they're considered inhumane and banned under international law.
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Yeah, holy crap, not fracking specifically but it would be terrible to have a Deepwater Horizon kind of incident, and cause a water flood!
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
That is a brilliant idea to use a hot mirror and IR camera like that! This is probably today's most accurate technique to use for VR eye tracking, right? And it looks super cheap for any company or project to produce this assembly in-
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
@fiatmoney's comment seems like very good advice. Here's a link since it's very far below the fold: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7849734
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Concrete sounds too expensive anyways, just cap it with a big flame-proof tarp. Wouldn't cost more than $10k or $20k I'd imagine.
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
In regards to your second paragraph, I think you would love starting a hardware startup. :) That's what I did. Although I did study CS in school, in terms of electrical engineering I'm almost entirely self-taught, learning by &q
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
I'm guessing that the reason this was downvoted was that I communicated poorly. Here is a better wording of what I was trying to say: In the Navy you sink a ship from far away. It's more abstract; you don't see the enemy up
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
I would highly encourage you to record another interview!
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Most likely there was a huge difference in that regard in navy vs army...
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
There is more! A full hour! :-D At some point I may post the rest, I just got the recordings back from a data recovery shop; they were on a hard drive that crashed 4 years ago with no backup... Talk about lucky The hissing is just the noise
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
My grandpa, Richard Williams, lived next door to me when I was a kid, and he helped raise me like a parent. He taught me carpentry, plumbing, and electricity, and through countless days together in his workshop he was the one who got me exc
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World War II in the Pacific, narrated by my grandpa(soundcloud.com)
74 points by jonmrodriguez 12y ago|44 comments
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
On the other side of the coin, I think people should be allowed to opt-in to such an experiment if they are fully informed and not being financially coerced. E.g., if someone's body is dying and they want their brain to live a little
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
If you connected through a silicon interposer you could use an FPGA or something similar on the silicon to rearrange and possibly even transcode the signals as needed. Some sort of precise robot similar to a wire-bonding machine could make
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Yeah, and "by all measures, normal" was also bullshit, the monkey was paralyzed from the neck down with no spinal connection! I can't believe we have so little regard for the rights of species very nearly as intelligent and p
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
2 can be fixed with better optics. 5 will be solved when there's a killer app.
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
> Is this an artifact of the camera scanning line-by-line relatively slowly? Yes!
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by jonmrodriguez 12y ago
Forgive my beginner question: Since a reformat was done to the affected machines, does this mean that researchers' datasets, drafts of papers, and other IP were lost? Or were researchers' machines not affected?

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