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Thomas Godden
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Thomas Godden
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- 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.
- 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.
- Today I learned that SIM cards have a decently powerful MCU on them and run Java.
- 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: youtu.be/oZbZZlDDEnc?si… Early access paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…
00:00 - 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.
- Replying to @GoddenThomasI'm also now learning that Java Card runs most bank cards and is the main reason Oracle can claim that "Java runs on 3 billion devices".
- 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: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName… Source for both and KiCad install instructions: github.com/LegoYoda112/no…
- I made an electromagnetic field microphone for some coursework; here's the "sound" of a MacBook booting.
00:00 - 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.
- To anyone I've had the wheels vs feet argument with...
00:00 - 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.
- 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.
