boatzart

The history of robotics is littered with the corpses of companies whose plan was to waive their hands until an app ecosystem appeared.

I dove headfirst into rebuilding an engine recently with basically zero practical experience. The amount of possible detail in the project is mind boggling. What's even more amazing though is that I'm able to just keep on chugging through the problems as they come up. I occasionally have bouts of vertigo as I stare into some abyss of minutiae, but then I just shrug my shoulders, wrench on some more bolts and keep going.

I played in a band for years in Los Angeles and I loved being able to fit all of our gear into my truck on the weekends. Everyone was bummed when I finally sold the truck and bought a Prius. The Prius is surprisingly spacious and I could still fit my small drum kit and an amp or two but not our whole setup. Admittedly _much_ better for the weekday commute though.

I'm so happy they finally moved the official documentation to Doxygen (http://docs.opencv.org/master/index.html), which appear to be a huge step up from their old Sphinx docs (http://docs.opencv.org/).

I've never heard of Jiddu Krishnamurthi before today. Can you recommend a book of his?

Wow, it's going for $3,115.00 (+ $3.99 shipping & handling) on Amazon. Put this next to Sled Driver on my list of books to buy when I win the lottery.

Check out the AIO Zeus: http://www.zeus.aiorobotics.com/

The way the crow::black_magic::get_parameter_tag works is very impressive. I don't think I ever would have thought to do this with a recursive constexpr like that. I'm a huge fan of providing compiler errors whenever possible, so I'm glad to be able to add this trick to my toolbox.

Why not just make a web site for this? If this really affects 2%-10% of the population, then it should be pretty easy to determine if the source is internal or external with enough data.

Is the Structure Sensor actually doing all of the SLAM computation on-board, or is it just shipping the RGBD images off to the iPad?