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Re:Self-Stabilizing Boat’s Deck Is Always Flat, Even in Roug... by wiwiw on Monday November 03, 2014 @03:56PM (#8553440)
The inventor, David Hall, is an interesting guy. He started off making subwoofers and among other things he invented the 3D Lidar system used by the winners (and second place) of the DARPA Urban Challenge. Also used in the Google self driving car.
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Re:Self-Stabilizing Boat’s Deck Is Always Flat, Even in Roug... by pontifier on Monday November 03, 2014 @08:55PM (#8554787)
I met him at the first DARPA challenge. Before he did the Lidar thing he had an interesting realtime stereo vision system powered by DSPs. I'd say he's a modern day Edison in his tenacity when it comes to solving problems.
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Re:Self-Stabilizing Boat’s Deck Is Always Flat, Even in Roug... by rasz_pl on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @08:11AM (#8556298)
Edison? you mean he has a team of engineers that invent stuff for him? and all he does is slap his name on their creations?
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Re:Self-Stabilizing Boat’s Deck Is Always Flat, Even in Roug... by ak217 on Monday November 03, 2014 @10:30PM (#8555017)
Wow. I never realized Velodyne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velodyne_Inc.) was a family-owned, 90-employee operation. Somehow I assumed the world's most sophisticated lidar maker would be a bigger company.
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