@GoddenThomas Thomas Godden

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Social Influence

Social category influence technology brands stocks social networks finance countries automotive brands

Social topic influence robot, robotics, this is, starship, vans, microsoft, twitter, boston dynamics, autodesk, actuator

Top assets mentioned Robot Consulting Co., Ltd. (LAWR) StarShip (STARSHIP) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Optimus (OPTIMUS) Spotify Technology (SPOT) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) SPORE (SPORE) Phoenixcoin (PXC) Wormhole (W)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@jaschawilcox @okthisisnagy Mainly fun / learning. But also I think I can roll my own for like a third of the cost of any of the COTS ones"
X Link 2023-07-10T08:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"For every engineering problem there is a solution that is quick simple and physically impossible to assemble or manufacture"
X Link 2023-08-18T21:33Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements

"Now there's three of them"
X Link 2023-08-24T02:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I love that even the Microsoft Corporation cannot figure out python environments"
X Link 2023-08-24T03:01Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"Printed a new housing and now it backdrives pretty easily. Now need to remember to order the motor"
X Link 2023-08-25T23:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I think I've accidentally semi-reverse-engineered the Handle controller"
X Link 2023-09-10T15:28Z [----] followers, 14K engagements

"@noflightcert Ah yes I did want the app to fall apart when someone saw my video. Perfect user experience"
X Link 2023-09-16T21:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@noflightcert "we're going to make twitter the best video platform ever" Proceeds to only add bugs Refuses to elaborate"
X Link 2023-09-16T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Finally designed my own brushless motor driver Mainly cost optimised; having to pay $100+ per axis on a multi-axis hobby robot adds up quick. I'll open source when I've worked out most of the hardware bugs. 50x50mm 50V at least some amps* and $15 for 10+ units"
X Link 2023-10-13T01:18Z [----] followers, 288.9K engagements

"It's always bugged me that most of the nice plastics either catch on fire or turn into chemical weapons when you laser cut them"
X Link 2023-10-26T03:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@DeveloperHarris I wonder what size spring you would need to store the energy contained in the atoms of a regular sized spring"
X Link 2023-10-30T05:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Having far too much fun with this thing; I think it might be time to make it some friends"
X Link 2023-11-07T03:32Z [----] followers, 23.2K engagements

"@ZyMazza Long term: any random robotics project I'm working on. Short term: I'm trying to build a roughly half-scale version of the boston dynamics handle robot and didn't want to pay a ton for off-the-shelf actuators"
X Link 2023-11-07T03:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@gevan32 It's currently approximate FOC and yep I can measure total current input which can be translated to estimate torque"
X Link 2023-11-08T02:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Tech companies think people want an AI pin but what they really want is a standalone smartwatch with a week long battery life"
X Link 2023-11-10T01:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"To start out [----] here is "Flashing an STM32 over CAN over SLCAN over USB over WebSerial through JavaScript in Chrome" because I thought it would be funny but regrettably it's becoming somewhat useful"
X Link 2024-01-02T06:26Z [----] followers, 27.2K engagements

"@AnoopGadri Ah cool Yeah my long term goal is to set up a nice way to push upgrades out across my CAN-networked stuff. Excited to be done with manually updating everything board by board"
X Link 2024-01-02T06:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"I think the FCC should make it legal to own and operate network jammers around people watching tiktok with the volume on"
X Link 2024-01-04T23:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Very cool to see but I'm going to have to get used to results like this coming from places whose primary goal isn't to generate knowledge. Nothing wrong with that just means that the fun implementation details start to get more sparse"
X Link 2024-01-07T17:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Started building up the cardboard box perception stack for the half-scale Handle. I think automated depalletization of half-scale pallets would be very fun to try and get it to do"
X Link 2024-01-22T04:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The segmentation was done with a Mask R-CNN model finetuned with renders I made in Blender which worked far better than I expected. Churn out a couple thousand images of fake boxes let the model cook for an hour and it's 80% good which is fine for what I need"
X Link 2024-01-22T04:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I do think I'll need to make an extra render pipeline for box stacks; the current system was only trained on random boxes in clutter so it struggles with that"
X Link 2024-01-22T04:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"This is actually a tragedy. One of my favourite facts about Ingenuity is that instead of balance charging their batteries they bought a thousand cells and just manually matched them before building the packs. The whole thing was a fantastic "let's just see what works" project. NASA's historic Ingenuity Helicopter has taken its last flight on Mars. After [--] incredible flights that remarkable helicopter flew farther and higher than we ever thought possible. #ThanksIngenuity https://t.co/eYwO9R6LY1 NASA's historic Ingenuity Helicopter has taken its last flight on Mars. After [--] incredible"
X Link 2024-01-25T19:44Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements

"@GeorgeWHerbert @BestCoastBrian For things with low current discharge it makes sense but I think this was a pretty demanding load. I believe they used a surprising amount of COTS stuff as well which was cool"
X Link 2024-01-26T02:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Ton of controls work to do but it's alive"
X Link 2024-01-29T00:25Z [----] followers, 17.5K engagements

"Today I learned that the "kcmil" or kilo-circular-milli-inch is not only a real unit but is part of the NEC standard for wire gauges"
X Link 2024-02-05T05:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@lysandrou_ I often go straight to the bandsaw with them out of pure spite"
X Link 2024-02-08T04:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"This is hilarious. If a fairly generic $200 board can defeat the security on a $75000 vehicle perhaps restrictions should be placed on the security standards of the vehicle and not on the sale of a the small radio with an MCU attached. Criminals have been using sophisticated tools to steal cars. And Canadians are rightfully worried. Today I announced we are banning the importation sale and use of consumer hacking devices like flippers used to commit these crimes. 🔗: https://t.co/K4MA3u68kP Criminals have been using sophisticated tools to steal cars. And Canadians are rightfully worried."
X Link 2024-02-09T19:06Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements

"@a_ankenb Omg yes; legged wheeled robots for the win. Have you tried transferring any controllers yet (you're doing RL right)"
X Link 2024-03-10T05:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"It's funny that if you gave the specs of human muscles to anyone building humanoid robots they might not pick them because on paper they look sort of bad. (poor absolute position low continuous force time delays tons of nonlinear damping and series compliance) @neuro_morphic @Christo25568024 @nyxtelius the human motor system has a servo bandwidth of like [--] Hz @neuro_morphic @Christo25568024 @nyxtelius the human motor system has a servo bandwidth of like [--] Hz"
X Link 2024-03-10T19:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@matbogus Yeah I'd argue that they're all features (or downstream of features). My take is that places are currently trying to build humanoids with requirements and methodology ported from industrial robotics which is often pretty different from what's needed in a non-industrial settings"
X Link 2024-03-10T21:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I know there's probably also engineering reasons for having these but it makes me happy that there's a group within SpaceX who figured out how to get high quality cameras mounted to starship. Insane stuff. Ship in space https://t.co/ge5vJ0q9jW Ship in space https://t.co/ge5vJ0q9jW"
X Link 2024-03-16T01:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@macjshiggins If they were't super messy; hydraulics are fantastic. I think there was a period where boston dynamics was essentially a pump and valve R&D company that also happened to also build robots"
X Link 2024-03-20T13:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I think label makers are highly underrated tools. The ability to put any words on anything you want Incredible"
X Link 2024-04-13T17:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"As the company that's been explicitly not selling their humanoids for over [--] years now it's really cool to see Boston Dynamics leapfrog the "let's replicate the human physiology roughly 1:1" spot a lot of the humanoid startups are in right now"
X Link 2024-04-17T13:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"One of the projects I worked on @ImperialDyson / @thrishlab is getting published We designed a print-in-place compliant wheel that passively transforms when encountering obstacles. Video with more details: Early access paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10502024 https://youtu.be/oZbZZlDDEncsi=CxhQ8qWzM3jVwJSe https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10502024 https://youtu.be/oZbZZlDDEncsi=CxhQ8qWzM3jVwJSe"
X Link 2024-04-28T15:45Z [----] followers, 412.6K engagements

"@3DX3EM @ImperialDyson @thrishlab Due to TPU experiencing work softening instead of hardening the cycle life is pretty high (our rough estimate was a million). The failure mode would likely be a flexure joint getting over-strained on an obstacle but we didn't see any failures due to that in our testing"
X Link 2024-04-28T22:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@MikellTaylor @Robotics_Summit I'm so jealous"
X Link 2024-05-02T15:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Since most carriers now have unlimited talk but limited data plans I think it's time to bring dial-up internet back"
X Link 2024-05-02T15:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"It's cool they're able to do this and I understand starting simple but we're achieving levels of "this could have been a 2-axis gantry" I didn't think were possible. New Optimus video 😮 Sorting battery cells using end-to-end NNs; recovers autonomously from failures. Currently being tested at one of Tesla's factories with a continuously decreasing rate of human interventions. It's also taking regular walks around the office. https://t.co/EaEooMMKR0 New Optimus video 😮 Sorting battery cells using end-to-end NNs; recovers autonomously from failures. Currently being tested at one of Tesla's"
X Link 2024-05-05T16:31Z [----] followers, 48.2K engagements

"For everyone who sees this and thinks I'm anti-ML for robotics this is mostly non serious. I'm joking about the specific task they chose to demo and not the overall approach to solving manipulation problems"
X Link 2024-05-05T16:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Very therapeutic to get to the point in a design where you get to go back and fillet all the edges"
X Link 2024-05-06T19:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@zahi_kakish Yeah the new base M2 model is like $600 (you can get used previous gens for much less) only downside is it's 8GB ram because dumb apple pricing tiers"
X Link 2024-05-11T01:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@0xmmo Sure but it can run docker and therefore can run everything"
X Link 2024-05-11T02:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"So I bought two AGV robots from now-defunct autonomous agriculture startup Iron Ox. The plan is to do a teardown/documentation on one and try to get the other up and running"
X Link 2024-05-17T21:38Z [----] followers, 152.6K engagements

"Weekend one of teardown on the Iron Ox Grover robot"
X Link 2024-05-20T00:17Z [----] followers, 73.9K engagements

"For context as to what this robot did there's a pretty good video CNET produced last year: The tl:dr is this is an AMR that lifted and moved hydroponic grow tubs for a semi-automated indoor farm. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=B6BMg4B0_Mg&t=148s&pp=ygUMY25ldCBpcm9uIG94 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=B6BMg4B0_Mg&t=148s&pp=ygUMY25ldCBpcm9uIG94"
X Link 2024-05-20T00:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"To start removing the shell. At first glance this appears to be moulded but due to part sizes wall thicknesses and geometries; I am pretty confident these are SLA printed and then painted (I don't think anyone sells an SLS machine with this print volume)"
X Link 2024-05-20T00:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The drive covers are held on by magnets and pop right off. The drive modules pivot to keep the drive wheels in contact so these need to be separate. There are machined parts that mate with pins on the robot"
X Link 2024-05-20T00:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Today I learned that SIM cards have a decently powerful MCU on them and run Java"
X Link 2024-06-01T03:34Z [----] followers, 1.3M engagements

"I'm also now learning that Java Card runs most bank cards and is the main reason Oracle can claim that "Java runs on [--] billion devices""
X Link 2024-06-01T03:53Z [----] followers, 90K engagements

"@_one334 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card"
X Link 2024-06-01T03:54Z [----] followers, 37.8K engagements

"Kind of funny that the phone number which summons every emergency service is nearly the same as the one you call to ask if you can dig a hole"
X Link 2024-06-02T18:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"What's interesting is there's actually only a handful of geometry kernels under the hood: NX Shapr3D Plasticity Onshape Solidworks all run Parasolid from Siemens Open source runs Open Cascade Creo and CATIA both have their own kernels Autodesk uses their own; ShapeManager There's a ton of misunderstanding around CAD terminology within the industry. What is Parametric History Based or Direct Modeling Which CAD packages do what I'm attempting a source of truth. First a chart of all the competitors including their functionality and cost: (1/3) https://t.co/P8rX5J2VMM There's a ton of"
X Link 2024-06-04T13:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I was so excited to go on BART and then the train immediately broke"
X Link 2024-06-14T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Sheet metal for one of the handle legs arrived Need to machine a few shafts but hopefully I'll be get to testing the knee linkage / spring counterbalance this week"
X Link 2024-06-22T22:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Official onshape darkmode"
X Link 2024-07-19T19:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"oh yeah here we go"
X Link 2024-07-20T04:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@joebarnard I love that the AWS sticker feels like the wildcard in this assortment"
X Link 2024-07-21T18:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Slowly putting together an outrunner version of the actuator for the handle legs. Worse rotor inertia but a tad more torque and much better control fidelity (more pole pairs)"
X Link 2024-07-27T04:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"It's actually not fair that the rest of the world gets to have 220-240V straight from their standard residential outlets"
X Link 2024-07-27T23:59Z [----] followers, 24.8K engagements

"@chianlihang @pipedream_labs Grand theft vault"
X Link 2024-08-08T16:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"It feels like there was a period around 2018-2020 where the Spotify UI was perfect and everything after that has been downhill. I would gladly pay them to stop adding features"
X Link 2024-08-10T16:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Opening MATLAB and questioning my life choices"
X Link 2024-08-16T00:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Re-learned how to set up LQR today. Not quite as flashy as trajopt or RL but still fun. Cool that this is all just linear feedback"
X Link 2024-08-25T23:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"One of the downgrades of living in the US is when I do a "request a copy of your data" companies send a small fraction of what they actually have. Everyone gets annoyed at the GDPR cookie popups but the laws around personal data were pretty good"
X Link 2024-08-26T00:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@lysandrou_ I am in fact still mooching of my student licence and need to finally yeet it haha. I wish more of the robotics tools had good support for Julia; it's a fun language"
X Link 2024-08-26T04:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Got [--] boxes from oshcut and [--] conveyor rollers. Today is a good day"
X Link 2024-08-27T20:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"OneDrive acting as if you're using it like Google photos is so funny. I get notifications like "remember this fun time" and it's a brick wall texture I used in a render [--] years ago. Apparently my spore files are backed up to onedrive bc I started getting emails like this https://t.co/dDc1bwt3pT Apparently my spore files are backed up to onedrive bc I started getting emails like this https://t.co/dDc1bwt3pT"
X Link 2024-08-28T19:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"My new favourite McMaster part are these sprung handles that they sell for weirdly cheap ($7.24)"
X Link 2024-09-05T17:31Z [----] followers, 66.4K engagements

"I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when they decided the standalone iron needs it's temp adjusted through a web interface because it feels like something their own teardown people would immediately call out as being somewhat ridiculous. A new era for soldering is coming. Pre-order the FixHub Power Series Portable Soldering Station Smart Soldering Iron and Soldering Toolkit. https://t.co/DqxsOEV6co #iFixit https://t.co/JORz1GGc5z A new era for soldering is coming. Pre-order the FixHub Power Series Portable Soldering Station Smart Soldering Iron and Soldering Toolkit."
X Link 2024-09-14T16:38Z [----] followers, 38.2K engagements

"Also the power station being essentially a $170 usb-c pd battery pack is insane"
X Link 2024-09-14T16:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The web adjust appears to use web serial which is still experimental has poor compatibility and notably does not work on any mobile browsers. IFixit makes good stuff but this feels like a pretty big miss"
X Link 2024-09-14T16:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Ok so this is at least a few months late but I finally brought the electronics box from the Iron Ox robot back to my apartment so here's the electronics half of the teardown"
X Link 2024-09-15T22:57Z [----] followers, 18.4K engagements

"Some more pics of the PDB. Fuse: Littelfuse JLLN110 110A Motor contactor: Omron G9EA-1-B 30A 24V Control contactor: G9EA-1-B 60A 48V Circuit breakers: Phenoix Contact TMC81C 30A Diode: Vishay 70A Not sure why the rating on the motor contactor is lower than the control one"
X Link 2024-09-15T22:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"For monitoring battery status there is a victron energy BMV-702 mounted on the top cover of the control box with a current shunt mounted on the underside of the PDB. This connects to the main computer via their USB adapter. https://www.victronenergy.com/display-and-panels/bmv-702 https://www.victronenergy.com/display-and-panels/bmv-702"
X Link 2024-09-15T22:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The enclosure is connectorised pretty well with M12 connectors or cable glands for external wires"
X Link 2024-09-15T22:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Logic and computer power are provided by two Phoenix contact 24V 5A supplies: PoE power is provided by a 48V 2.5A Meanwell supply. https://www.meanwell-web.com/en-gb/dc-dc-ultra-slim-industrial-din-rail-converter-ddr--120c--48 https://www.phoenixcontact.com/en-us/products/dcdc-converters-quint-ps48dc24dc-5-2320144 https://www.meanwell-web.com/en-gb/dc-dc-ultra-slim-industrial-din-rail-converter-ddr--120c--48 https://www.phoenixcontact.com/en-us/products/dcdc-converters-quint-ps48dc24dc-5-2320144"
X Link 2024-09-15T22:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The safety controller is made up of SICK FLEXI Soft modules RLY3-OSSD1 - Brake relay FX3-CPU0 FX3-GEPR - LIDAR FX3-MOC1 - Encoders FX3-XTIO8 - hooked up to E-stop radio lift sensors motor drive enable motor power contactor brake relay https://www.sick.com/us/en/catalog/products/safety/safety-controllers/flexi-soft/c/g186176 https://www.sick.com/us/en/catalog/products/safety/safety-controllers/flexi-soft/c/g186176"
X Link 2024-09-15T22:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Out of an abundance of copyright paranoia I am probably not going to publish this unless I go get explicit approval (some of the IP was transferred). But I might do a "here's the shape of the software" breakdown at some point going over their ROS graph"
X Link 2024-09-15T22:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Anyway hope someone found some of that interesting feel free to ask for more info / pictures of anything"
X Link 2024-09-15T22:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Interesting development these are 35% cheaper on McMaster than direct from the manufacturer which is completely backwards to how it normally is. My new favourite McMaster part are these sprung handles that they sell for weirdly cheap ($7.24) https://t.co/rQide1XvDF My new favourite McMaster part are these sprung handles that they sell for weirdly cheap ($7.24) https://t.co/rQide1XvDF"
X Link 2024-09-19T22:33Z [----] followers, 20.6K engagements

"The bulk of the sheet metal for the half-scale Boston Dynamics Handle robot came in today from @sendcutsend Huge thanks to @jimbelosic for sponsoring the sheet parts for this; the whole team there is fantastic"
X Link 2024-09-21T03:33Z [----] followers, 14.6K engagements

"Why has no one on the internet posted dimensions for the Costco hot dog"
X Link 2024-09-23T00:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"What I'd give for a Car Talk style show with a mechanical electrical and software engineer all arguing about which domain they thought a system's problem came from"
X Link 2024-09-28T00:26Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements

"Leg linkage / spring counterbalance seem to mostly work"
X Link 2024-10-02T02:53Z [----] followers, 46.4K engagements

"Certified microsoft moment. The completly seperate (new) app is practically the same except slightly worse"
X Link 2024-10-06T15:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Turns out I was absolutely spamming the shutter out of excitement so here's a landing collage. Cool to see how much the TVC gimbles to pitch the booster back to vertical before lowering onto the tower"
X Link 2024-10-15T00:44Z [----] followers, 1.5M engagements

"An optimal trajectory with just the end-conditions would probably spit out something that has you finishing the main decell right next to the tower which is risky if you're not following it exactly"
X Link 2024-10-15T00:59Z [----] followers, 10.9K engagements

"Updating based on comments: main landing trajectory targets out and up from the tower they shut down to just [--] engines while vertical check if they're within the envelope to actually land and then proceed if so. I might have to play with my old starship landing sim this week"
X Link 2024-10-15T04:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Got one of the legs running; ignore the fact that the actuator sounds like it's grinding rocks"
X Link 2024-10-28T01:16Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements

"@KyleMorgenstein cc @macjshiggins"
X Link 2024-10-30T17:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"USB-C PD isn't given enough credit for basically killing the concept of brand-locked laptop chargers"
X Link 2024-11-12T14:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"To anyone I've had the wheels vs feet argument with. wow. https://t.co/wE4taYndAw wow. https://t.co/wE4taYndAw"
X Link 2024-11-12T18:26Z [----] followers, 63.4K engagements

"Sure the launch was cool but getting to witness the fastest banana delivery ever was awesome"
X Link 2024-11-20T00:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Built up another hip actuator today the mini lathe remains undefeated despite my best efforts"
X Link 2024-11-24T22:45Z [----] followers, 14.5K engagements

"Was wondering why my Mac had run out of storage and turns out After Effects seemingly never deletes it's cache files and had 114GB just laying there"
X Link 2024-12-01T18:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@bitvapor Ah yes you're probably thinking about the starship landing trajectory optimisation stuff: Reminds me I need to do an updated version at some point. https://thomas-godden.medium.com/how-spacex-lands-starship-sort-of-ee96cdde650b https://thomas-godden.medium.com/how-spacex-lands-starship-sort-of-ee96cdde650b"
X Link 2024-12-02T05:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@R2rule1 Hi did you check what robot I'm building before writing this thread It uses wheels"
X Link 2024-12-07T15:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Hexhawk_2 Current setup is Mac for laptop windows for desktop then parsec to remote into windows if I ever need it. I'd ditch windows entirely if I could unix-like stuff is just wildly better"
X Link 2024-12-07T22:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@brandonkxo Two 20V knock-off dewalt drill batteries"
X Link 2024-12-08T03:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Wrote a quick controller to prove to myself this thing can balance itself. Next up on the path to the real control stack is setting up state estimation. I'm going to do some low level fixes / clean up first so probably last full robot update for a bit"
X Link 2024-12-09T06:01Z [----] followers, 14.4K engagements

"Pondering of the day is how do Bluetooth earbuds keep their audio synchronized. Maintaining a sub-millisecond sync between two wireless devices is actually pretty impressive"
X Link 2024-12-15T22:58Z [----] followers, 27.2K engagements

"Playing the impossible game of "do I pack more clothes or more random project parts into my suitcase for Christmas break""
X Link 2024-12-16T03:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"It's been a while since I've updated the python calculator; playing around with adding dependency information"
X Link 2024-12-22T17:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I really want to have it spit out a full graph display but while it would be cool I have no clue what I'd actually do with that information"
X Link 2024-12-22T17:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I think one of the nerdiest things I do is make app color schemes based on this one frame of the Nostromo UI from Alien"
X Link 2024-12-26T19:56Z [----] followers, 736.3K engagements

"Twitter annoyingly compresses the colors so they don't look quite right but I did one for vscode a while back"
X Link 2024-12-26T20:05Z [----] followers, 31.8K engagements

"Oh huh people like this. I'll throw a version on GitHub tomorrow"
X Link 2024-12-26T23:24Z [----] followers, 27.8K engagements

"Since people seemed to enjoy these here's the KiCad schematic theme and a vscode theme based on some of the landing GUI on the Nostromo from Alien: vscode theme: Source for both and KiCad install instructions: https://github.com/LegoYoda112/nostromo_ui_themes https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/itemsitemName=thomasgodden.nostromo-ui https://github.com/LegoYoda112/nostromo_ui_themes https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/itemsitemName=thomasgodden.nostromo-ui"
X Link 2024-12-27T21:15Z [----] followers, 111.4K engagements

"@estebs Ah yeah I was doing stuff as pre-release; you can manually select that or wait like [--] mins and I'll publish a release version"
X Link 2024-12-27T21:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Turns out if you use BGA components JLC X-rays the assembled boards and sends you the images. Pretty sick"
X Link 2024-12-31T01:16Z [----] followers, 18.4K engagements

"@chubicki Interesting that we've got generally-available realistic AI video tools potentially years before off the shelf home robots more advanced than a roomba. Probably would have lost that bet a few years ago"
X Link 2024-12-31T02:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

""ripped off by china" is such a funny take. The whole point of academic research is to share new ideas. My take is: actuators aren't crazy hard the thing we should be making more of tho are rotor / stator pairs. If you're building custom stuff; that's the bottleneck right now. Behind the story of the modern limbed robotics configuration is an American actuator design ripped off by china. Ben Katz and the MIT biomimetics lab https://t.co/33gcDAZgtq Behind the story of the modern limbed robotics configuration is an American actuator design ripped off by china. Ben Katz and the MIT biomimetics"
X Link 2025-01-13T02:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"To that point; the original mini cheetah actuator design probably wouldn't have happened without hobbyking motors"
X Link 2025-01-13T02:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Every time they push the New Glenn launch I keep saying I'll only stay up another [--] minutes and now it's been one and half hours"
X Link 2025-01-13T07:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"There's a timeline where this kind of money would also be getting dropped on things like nuclear plants and rail infrastructure but I guess the world really needs some more computers right now. Announcing The Stargate Project The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure Announcing The Stargate Project The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four"
X Link 2025-01-21T22:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Commuting to work today through The Wormhole"
X Link 2025-01-29T03:32Z [----] followers, 24.3K engagements

"I've joked about wanting a Linux tablet a couple times but discovered last week you can just obtain these things on eBay for pretty cheap"
X Link 2025-02-23T17:04Z [----] followers, 226.1K engagements

""Can we go to Home Depot" no we have Home Depot at home:"
X Link 2025-03-10T17:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The first robotics championship continues to be the coolest event ever. In related news I am going to be asleep for the next week"
X Link 2025-04-20T21:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@pronounced_kyle @physical_int I grew up in San Diego so it's good to be back. Would love to sneak into Astranis if you ever have tours"
X Link 2025-05-31T19:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I have spent a total of [--] minutes on san francisco craigslist and have already found an automatic house ignitor"
X Link 2025-06-24T03:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Asked at home depot if they had metric drill bits and the manager looked at me like I'd asked to buy something illegal"
X Link 2025-06-30T18:39Z [----] followers, 15.5K engagements

"Truly the worst feeling to find that something you'd been excited to figure out how to make is in fact available to be purchased for $10"
X Link 2025-07-12T04:31Z [----] followers, 29.9K engagements

"I'm integrating a small server rack into my workbench and I was going to custom make some rack rails that screw into a wooden frame but turns out (unsurprisingly I guess) you can just buy them"
X Link 2025-07-12T04:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@CalebChamberla6 Someone in the robotics lab at my university made this for one of their class projects swearing and all"
X Link 2025-07-12T22:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"If you're at OpenSauce with a robot I Will find you and say hi"
X Link 2025-07-19T17:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Ayaan362 @FangSystems Lol so replies like this are part of why I don't post in-progress stuff as much anymore: this is probably the stiffest part on this robot see fig [--] (significantly worse cantilever order of magnitude more load) Please do the math before posting"
X Link 2025-07-27T17:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Discovered "yes" today and I think it is one of the most beautiful Unix commands. Echos "y" to the terminal so fast you can pin a cpu core at 100%"
X Link 2025-08-09T02:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"There might be some correlation between this and why games can render [--] million moving triangles and update thousands of agents while CAD platforms will take [--] seconds to perform a basic fillet operation and then the UI locks up. Wait so people don't use multithreading in gamedev at all You just try hard to ensure that every game loop iteration runs faster than 16.67ms Wait so people don't use multithreading in gamedev at all You just try hard to ensure that every game loop iteration runs faster than 16.67ms"
X Link 2025-09-01T03:28Z [----] followers, 49.3K engagements

"Pushing this a bit further; for [---] extruded squares: NX - 11s Onshape - 3.5s Fusion - 1.5s (I'm sorry Autodesk I was unfamiliar with your game) If someone has access to CATIA I'd be curious to see roughly where that lands. @jordannoone @zoodotdev I'm excited for true parallelized gpu modeling but here's extruding [--] cubes in Zoo NX Onshape and Blender. Even fast cad platforms are still at least an order of magnitude slower than something built like a game engine. https://t.co/JkBkzSjGPE @jordannoone @zoodotdev I'm excited for true parallelized gpu modeling but here's extruding [--] cubes in"
X Link 2025-09-01T07:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@nk Apologies for the game generalization here. More of a jab at legacy CAD. Extruded cuboids felt like the most basic operation I could scale that should just use the program as a direct line to the kernel and yet there's surprising discrepancies so I'm probably wrong there"
X Link 2025-09-01T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@cragbot1 Top [--] this old tony video"
X Link 2025-09-06T22:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Today I ran 100Mbit Ethernet through one of my fingers. Today I ran Gigabit Ethernet through a series of Wago connectors and to my horror it just worked. Today I ran Gigabit Ethernet through a series of Wago connectors and to my horror it just worked"
X Link 2025-09-24T01:45Z [----] followers, 23.8K engagements

"Housing needs to be resin printed but. what if. magnetic tag connect with super cheap amazon parts. I am not convinced on magnet strength but it's worth a try. I have decided that tag connects are actually a bit annoying and what I really want is a magnetic debug connector. I have decided that tag connects are actually a bit annoying and what I really want is a magnetic debug connector"
X Link 2025-10-11T02:34Z [----] followers, 30.6K engagements

"Has anyone tried to build an E-bike that uses the toyota hybrid style differential system"
X Link 2025-10-12T22:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Noticed a company offering ".pdf" as a CAD download option and sure enough when you open it up there's the full 3D model embedded you can spin around. pdf is the wackiest file format"
X Link 2023-05-22T17:27Z [----] followers, 119.6K engagements

"Fixed a bug in the AHRS fusion code that resulted in weird behaviour on inversions; it's much more stable now. Need to write a CAN comms layer and then it's finally back to actually doing stuff on the robot"
X Link 2025-02-17T02:31Z [----] followers, 47.3K engagements

"@byte_thrasher @chris_dalke @macjshiggins There's an STM that runs as a USB/CAN converter and also does the screen. The esp was a future feature to allow for bluetooth debug. We mostly used it as a battery monitor and a "can alive" display (had an led that blinked for every rx-ed frame)"
X Link 2025-08-20T15:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Just quoted some pcbs from US fabs out of curiosity and. is there a material reason (labor chemicals etc) it's an order of magnitude worse or are they just tooled really inefficiently"
X Link 2025-10-19T01:23Z [----] followers, 10K engagements

"The CNCed part price difference I mostly understand but the price and turnaround discrepancy is so comically bad on bare pcbs that I can't quite wrap my head around it"
X Link 2025-10-19T01:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Sure you're allowed to step on the box but just wear shoes ok"
X Link 2026-01-03T02:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The DHL yellow is one of my favorite colors and I hope they never change it. Fedex white is boring amazon grey is mediocre UPS brown is pretty good and while USPS white vans they've got sick racing stripes so they're ok"
X Link 2026-01-06T02:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Ran out of room on my workbench so was forced to create a cnc keyboard positioner"
X Link 2026-01-31T21:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Made a door today. This is going on the "do not annoy my upstairs roommate" device"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I guess I've started project posting again with no context so here goes; I'm building a mill that's almost all laser cut sheet and tube (from fabworks/sendcutsend). Are there enough shims in the world to make this thing square Let's find out"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"gantry is alive"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I will continue to put my keyboard on the z plate until it isn't funny anymore"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Currently being perceived at the Austin airport"
X Link 2025-04-23T18:24Z [----] followers, 58K engagements

"Some small cnc updates. - Accidentally made a very small E-stop - Door actualy works as a door now - Made a "sound maze" wire passthrough; seems to work reasonably well. I'll probably throw another one on the bottom for ventalation"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I have created something out of cardboard that should never be made out of cardboard"
X Link 2021-03-09T20:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Waiting on a fixture plate and some workholding to arrive so alas no chips this weekend. but we're getting close"
X Link 2026-02-15T03:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I love opening a zip and finding a file from [----] feels like doing archeology"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"gantry is alive"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I will continue to put my keyboard on the z plate until it isn't funny anymore"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Dual axis keyboard positioner"
X Link 2026-02-05T07:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Made a door today. This is going on the "do not annoy my upstairs roommate" device"
X Link 2026-02-01T03:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Ran out of room on my workbench so was forced to create a cnc keyboard positioner"
X Link 2026-01-31T21:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The amount of neuron activation I get from this clip is off the charts. This is only two imagine a continuous stream of them going at 60mph. We're a couple years in and this is my favorite Pipedream clip by a mile. Can't wait to make thousands of these little guys https://t.co/bYDVcv3JvX We're a couple years in and this is my favorite Pipedream clip by a mile. Can't wait to make thousands of these little guys https://t.co/bYDVcv3JvX"
X Link 2026-01-29T04:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"We're a couple years in and this is my favorite Pipedream clip by a mile. Can't wait to make thousands of these little guys"
X Link 2026-01-28T01:19Z [----] followers, 22.1K engagements

"We've built a first of its kind grocery store in Austin. Introducing Goods➡"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:49Z [----] followers, 1.4M engagements

"Big fan of the "don't rip the door off the plane by accidentally raising the jetway" sensor"
X Link 2026-01-23T20:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Shout out to @fabworks_guy for some amazing customer service. - noticed an issue with a tube part at 11pm yesterday - fabworks responds to my email at 10am - new part is produced by 11am and on a truck by 3pm scheduled for morning delivery tomorrow"
X Link 2026-01-23T05:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I have to admit I used to order exclusively from UPS for domestic stuff because I preferred the color of the vans"
X Link 2026-01-06T02:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"RT @mycoliza:"
X Link 2026-01-05T16:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"USB CAN FD Analyzer https://t.co/DHQjP0YKuO USB CAN FD Analyzer https://t.co/DHQjP0YKuO"
X Link 2026-01-05T16:04Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements

"USB CAN FD Analyzer"
X Link 2026-01-05T09:45Z [----] followers, 23.2K engagements

"RT @jimbelosic: Its been an honor @emm0sh 🫡"
X Link 2026-01-04T00:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Its been an honor @emm0sh 🫡 day four of increasing the complexity of this CNCd part until sendcutsend tells me to stop https://t.co/ClkTunAxjE day four of increasing the complexity of this CNCd part until sendcutsend tells me to stop https://t.co/ClkTunAxjE"
X Link 2026-01-03T23:39Z 14.7K followers, 990.2K engagements

"day four of increasing the complexity of this CNCd part until sendcutsend tells me to stop @emm0sh Day four @emm0sh Day four"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:35Z [----] followers, 1.4M engagements

"Sure you're allowed to step on the box but just wear shoes ok"
X Link 2026-01-03T02:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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