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by msadowski 4y ago
People are quite sure the government is involved in some way, either by this being done by a government-owned companies that were stuffed with their own as soon as the current party got in power, or some of them allowed it to happen and the
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by msadowski 4y ago
I had a call with a Polish government last year to get access to one of the government portals and they were asking me to move my head to the side and also move a palm of my hand very slowly in front of my face. Interesting times.
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Ask HN: Best way to source control multiple repos building upon each other
1 points by msadowski 4y ago|1 comments
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by msadowski 4y ago
Initially I had a lot of luck on UpWork and managed to find some clients that I worked with for over a year. Initially, I was getting 90% of job requests from Upwork and 10% from my blog and LinkedIn, but about year ago the proportions flip
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by msadowski 4y ago
I think this post is a treasure trove of good advice. I’ll have to do some deeper reading of this as the advice seem solid. Since I’ve quit my last job in 2018 I feel like I’ve tried it all when it comes to revenue sources: * consulting - s
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by msadowski 4y ago
This idea reminds me of LiGo batteries ( https://ebikes.ca/product-info/grin-products/ligo-batteries.... ). I think when it comes to the car this idea could be viable but I think the risk is potential change with th
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by msadowski 4y ago
My only advice would be create good content and make it consistent. Each of my issue title is: “WR: Issue #X” and consistently I get an open rate of around 45% consistently, because I hope people find my work useful. I also make the newslet
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by msadowski 4y ago
Back in 2018, Zephyr stayed in the air for close to 26 days: https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-08-ai...
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by msadowski 4y ago
Hi HN! Recently while working on my newsletter [0] I came across Zipline using microphones on their fixed-wings for aircraft detection, creating a very informative blog post in the process. I'll be curious to seeing if they manage to g
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Using Sound to Unlock Instant Logistics at Scale(medium.com)
2 points by msadowski 4y ago|1 comments
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The Future of Robotics Is Now and It’s Open-Source(adinkratech.com)
1 points by msadowski 4y ago|0 comments
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by msadowski 4y ago
I love the Orbital Index! It’s my only resource on space news and every week I’m learning a ton!
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by msadowski 4y ago
I’ve been working on a robotics newsletter for close to 4 years now. Maybe someone here will find it interesting https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/
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by msadowski 5y ago
Yes, and for me to do that the client needs to sort out their payment issues first. I'm glad I'm not dependent on timely payments from this platform but if I was I would be livid.
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Tell HN: Be careful when using Upwork for consulting work
12 points by msadowski 5y ago|2 comments
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by msadowski 5y ago
One more to the list: GITAI is hoping to send a centaur-like rover with a robot torso in mid-2020[0]. Given that the current version is using some off the shelf sensor I have no idea how realistic is this timeline though. [0] https:/&
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Guitar Bot(youtube.com)
2 points by msadowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by msadowski 5y ago
I’m so excited about the SteamDeck. My hope is that I’ll be able to install Ubuntu on it and turn it into an ultimate robot controller. If I can also dock it to my screen, keyboard and mouse then I can see myself doing some light developmen
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by msadowski 5y ago
It depends what you are interested in. My latest find from this week is the Introduction to Autonomous Robots open source book: https://github.com/Introduction-to-Autonomous-Robots/Introdu... . If you were looking for n
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by msadowski 5y ago
I’ve been rubbing it for over 3 years now and I’m approaching 3k e-mail subscribers. I feature it quite a lot on LinkedIn and Twitter and sometimes I would share some issues on /r/robotics or HN. So far the best way I’ve found for
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by msadowski 5y ago
I run a robotics newsletter: https://weeklyrobotics.com/
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Show HN: Robotics in 2021(weeklyrobotics.com)
2 points by msadowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by msadowski 5y ago
I’ve occasionally posted some issues on hn and /r/robotics. Every week I share the issues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. From these LinkedIn seems to have brought the most interactions so far. On a couple of occasions I traded
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by msadowski 5y ago
3 years ago I started a newsletter about robotics ( https://weeklyrobotics.com/ ) and about month ago I opened it to advertisers and started earning about $600 a month from ads.
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by msadowski 5y ago
What kind of robots are you interested in? Or is it just about the framework? I’ve been working as a ROS consultant for over 3 years now but never properly considered tutoring. You can check out my blog ( https://msadowski.github.
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Ascento Pro (a wheeled-bipedal mobile robot)(youtube.com)
1 points by msadowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by msadowski 5y ago
This story reminded me of a case of a 25 tonne deep sea mining robot that got detached at a depth of 4km: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/mining-robot-st... . I can't imagine how stressful this m
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by msadowski 5y ago
I don’t have any in my RSS feed, but if you were to search for them I would try finding some describing iRobot Root or Mindstorm projects. If videos could do then perhaps the Brick Experiments Channel could have something interesting: http
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by msadowski 5y ago
Here are some that I've been following why working on my newsletter ( https://weeklyrobotics.com/ ). These will be mostly robotics oriented, and some of them might be inactive: * [Robots&Chisel]( http://www
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by msadowski 5y ago
I think they were considered a moonshot project? That’s probably one way you can justify a massive funding.

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