maker Faire Bay area is next weekend, as well as you understand what that means: we’re having a meetup on Saturday night. If you’re in the area, it’s highly suggested you attend. It’s a blinky bring-a-hack with booze. You can’t beat it. I heard the OPShark is showing up. All hail the OPShark. You’re gonna want to RSVP if you’re going k thx.
It only took twelve years, however [ladyada] lastly got herself on the cover of Make.
Nvidia has the Jetson, an extremely powerful single board computer + GPU meant for machine learning, imagifying, as well as robotics applications. If you want to do elegant ML stuff with low power devices, I’d extremely suggest you inspect the Jetson out. Of course, the Jetson is only the brains of any type of machine discovering robot; you likewise requirement some muscle. To that end, Nvidia released the Isaac robotic simulator. It’s a simulator for common bits of hardware like quadcopters, hovercrafts (?), robotic arms, as well as yes, selfie drones.これは何を意味するのでしょうか？ Standardized hardware means somebody is going to create 3rd celebration hardware, as well as that’s awesome.
This is just an observation, however fidget spinners are just now hitting the mainstream. We didn’t understand what they were for a year ago, as well as we don’t understand now.
A Hebocon is a shitty robot battle. DorkbotPDX just had their very first Hebocon as well as the results were… just about as shitty as you would expect. since this is a shitty robot battle, a MakerBot made an appearance. This robot, SpitterBot, was designed to strike extruded filament around its opponent. Did the MakerBot win? Yes, SpitterBot won the ‘Poorest Quality’ award.
Supplyframe, Hackaday’s parent company, holds monthly-ish electronic get-togethers in the San Fransisco office. The focus of these meetups is to discover somebody great who developed something remarkable as well as get them to talk about it. The March meetup featured [Pete Bevelacqua] who developed a Vector Network Analyzer from scratch. The video is worth a watch.