Very much worth reading. www.ntsb.gov/news/press-r...

Aaeon Boxer (Jetson Nano w/ 4GB RAM for $36 NOS) and some web cams. Doing low power motion detect to trigger more expensive image reco for a local (non-cloud dependant) security system. Educational. Complex, but not impossible. github.com/JamesNewton/...

Look closely. www.msarnoff.org/millitext/

So good! An unknown history. Did textiles cause agriculture? How many people spent all day spinning? Connects with the AI robot scare. An amazing eye opening subject. And Hank having to admit he screwed up. LOL. youtu.be/e4dYGdjgsz8

A end of year progress summary from the rotoforge project youtu.be/IB_5AZWfhG4

So amazing! @adrianbowyer.bsky.social have you seen this?

TIL about the compose key en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose... (also, had to enable the right-alt to be the compose key under Keyboard -> Layouts -> Options... -> Position of Compose key, 'cause that wasn't defaulted on) Now all the special characters just make sense. Like ũ is Compose ~ u. Easy huh?

Has anyone else run into that ad for COX cable where they feature guy singing BADLY? Has anyone run into it on music.youtube.com while trying to listen to... music.... I actually tried to block an ad for the first time in my life. We will see. Wow advertisers are sooo out of touch...

After 15 years, and many millions of safe miles driven, a Google/Waymo car finally caused a fatality: They ran over a cat. 😢

Interesting... Go to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Un... and search the page for the word " gain".

Very nice comparison of design options for custom Wave Drives. Low cost, only 2 bearings w/balls/pins. Some 90% efficiency, backlash < 0.1', useful strength. See also his later videos for refined versions. And his web site has a design tool for further customization. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRo...

All the signs of life found on Asteroid youtube.com/shorts/stbcn...

so.... Gemini popped this up for no apparent reason this AM: I had left the tab open overnight, and just came back to it. I had not asked any questions, or added any device to my google account. Can't find any mention in any search engine of this. I'm a bit weirded out and not sure what to do.

Just realized "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" would be much better with the sound off and no captions. Guessing I can write better dialog on the fly in my head...

utterly fantastic tool for designing off grid systems! I'm SO amazed by the ease of use and "game" ethos of this: disruptivelyuseful.github.io/simbiosis/ Source code, raise issues, help contribute, etc... github.com/Disruptively...

Hilarious: `traceroute bad.horse`

So, cool! We can have fish in our zero g caves in asteroids. youtube.com/shorts/I8rID... #oyebeltalowda

No, no, no... flamy end DOWN, not up! LOL. Fun to see when it's Russia and hopefully no one died... although if I was in charge of that program, I would stay away from windows on upper floors.

Happy illegal immigrant day!

This is completely hilarious and fun. youtu.be/iz9m9b0LaX8

ROFL.

So... ok... ok... hear me out. This guy: www.instagram.com/antikythera_... is recreating "The Writer" automaton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJX... And MY idea is... actuate the Hideyuki Sawada vocal track from cams, in the same way! youtu.be/F99sAApGySk Huh? Huh!? Wouldn't that be amazing! :rofl:

Motive is so critical. The extension of goal fulfillment into motive to answer questions of why is indeed... satisfying. writerofminds.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-...

TIL that if you turn a boat upside down, you can wear it as a hat... Because it's... capsized. 😀 (sorry, sorry, couldn't help it)

The bad news: The /official/ Arduino products and brand, irrelevant for years, are now no longer open source. The good: The Arduino /ecosystem/ is alive and well, powerful, open, welcoming, and widely supported at lower costs than ever.

PanSpermia is looking better and better. Moss for the win. www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...

If you're interested in #robotics and #AI research, check out this impressively low-cost leader arm on Kickstarter (useful for collecting training data). The creator invented a new type of magnetic encoder to make it happen! www.kickstarter.com/projects/del...

Good lord that's cool! It's like the Falstad Sim in real life.

CONGRATULATIONS BLUE ORIGIN NEW GLENN! We have now doubled the number of real (tail landing) rocket boosters!

Sometimes projects need a little LCD user interface, which can distract from the project. This is a dirt simple FOSS nextron with human readable commands. e.g. `1i 10x 20y 40h 50w #f800C R` Sets up a clickable red 50 by 40 rectangle at 10, 20. if clicked, a "1" is TXd. github.com/JamesNewton/...

Stunningly funny www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8C8...

I'm watching a video about "misshapen livestock paintings" That's how bored I am. Help. Please. 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNk...

I just backed Discrete Mechatronic | Delta Track on @kickstarter.com Moving robots can be easy. www.kickstarter.com/projects/del...

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

Anyone I know going to Hackaday SuperCon Halloween weekend? I'm soooo excited!

Smh gonna give ME a USB C without the CC resistors?!

Just a lovely feature. If you don't wokwi.com you really should check it out. Ultra fast proto sim and colab. And now you can more clearly copy that to reality via Jumperless. Obviously you would have physical components on the BB; this is just a wire color demo. www.crowdsupply.com/architeuthis...

Found a really lovely article about 3D house printer I provided the electronics for back in 2013/14 (Andrey started printing in his garage in 13, finished the castle in 14). Now we just need to get the industry to take another leap (cables, hyperadobe, etc...) 3dprint.com/12933/3d-pri...

Alan Kay's part of this (ques up for you) is smashing. So very well said. Really worth hearing and thinking about.

Steve Mould is legend youtu.be/NtZaP8VMv0c

I just found out that the podunk "Williams General Store" (Williams, OR) where I grew up has a payphone inside still. These are ALL modern pictures. It looked /exactly/ like that when I was 11 years old (50 years go). Just wow. Somethings really do not change.

For some strange reason, I've been invited to speak at the Las Vegas Robotics Meetup on the 23rd, on the topic of Robots in Space. I've tossed this outline together and would welcome feedback on it: docs.google.com/presentation...

Not sure how many people will know this name, but Robert Murray Smith ended his misery. His wife Patty had passed a year and a half ago and he was living in pain. I will deeply miss looking forward to his next crazy device or idea or example. He was an inspiration.