Every once in a while, one of our hens will feel broody and sit on a clutch of eggs. Usually she gets bored after a day or two and wanders off (leaving a pile of soon to be rotten eggs), but every once in a while, one of the girls sticks with it long enough to bring chicks to…
NRC 2026 is just around the corner (April 16, 17 & 18), and our students are very excited. For the past several 6 years my wife and I have hosted and coached a robotics team out of our house for middle and high schoolers. This year our students are bringing a total of 8 bots to…
Part of the goal with this post is to test the functionality of YouTube videos embedded in-line with blog posts. Are you familiar with the music of Stromae? If not, he's well worth your time. His song "Papaoutai" was my introduction to him, and I find it to be excellent:…
Read more →So I've wanted to have a new blog for a long time, but I haven't fully settled on architecture until now. I had an idea today for using Github Actions to build a dynamic-feeling website using Issues and Comments on a Github repository as the content for the blog, and so…
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This new algorithm felt cute. Might delete later. Part 2! Playing around with neural networks and some new scanning algorithms. Had several people ask me about the framerate in the previous video, so decided to post a followup where I'm running at 10fps. This is being served by…
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This new algorithm felt cute. Might delete later. Playing around with neural networks and some new scanning algorithms. Uses a couple of custom-trained neural networks -- one to predict card corner points (the "detector"), and another to hash / vectorize the image (the…
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At Thornton State Beach
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A followup to my last video, you can now chat with the droids and they can execute commands to interact in the world. Why should you be able to program your droids with something mundane like Lua or Javascript? That would be too easy! Instead, why not prompt them to interact…
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