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Less than $900 for a ruggedized solar power capable (12 or 24 battery voltage) with a cellular uplink. Combine with a decent camera + $70 VPU and you can even do edge detection of faces to upload to a remote system for offline processing (supports AWS greengrass). Having fun yet?
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If I wanted that, I'd likely just install a coral board https://t.co/qohe0sl1ZE instead of going with Movidius, but mostly because I think it more compatible with maker ethos.
What's that? You're worried about schmoo on your lens? Here's a guy making an open source de-schmooing device to keep your go-pro lens clear so you don't have to spend $11k on a fancy high end camera add-on.https://t.co/BDjdg1JOm2
i'm going to buy a couple of these to see if I can stick a camera in one. They're so cheap and ubiquitous that i'm finding knockoffs at the local discount store for < $4 each.https://t.co/oA15EuskfT
Budgeting things is hard. I turns out I won't be able to try that out for a few months. Still got a couple more things I need to spend money on to ensure my food is stable before I can squeeze my rocks enough to afford small parts for projects like that.
I can hot-wire it to just go up into the air slowly. The slight 'spinning' of the body will slowly pan the camera around so I can get a 360 view. The beauty of that helicopter design is when the battery dies /cuts power, it should auto-rotate back down to the ground semi-safely.
DIY bee brain drones tho.https://t.co/3vClN0qYNi
You can do a lot with thrust vectoring.https://t.co/IuFKbDJSij
小さな蜂ヘリコプターのためのサーボ、あなたは言う？https://t.co/B4Mjgigfu6
How does one stream down large numbers of control curves to a bee drone in real time without lot of packet overhead?"enables [...] heavy simulation to be moved to the server and leaves clients largely responsible only for rendering what they can see."https://t.co/con9sAXE4y
Trying to bring forth an idea that I've had since I was four.https://t.co/0pue9GwU5A
Did you know that one of the founders of DeepMind made my favorite childhood video game in collaboration with Peter Molyneux?https://t.co/EEHJjs5xvN
Why would they be building a space game?https://t.co/tWHVV24S8Z
Why would I be trying to encourage my friend to build a space game?https://t.co/pFrb6I0voC
A 2d MMO space game is just an ant simulation with physics.I have this free open source game on my steam wishlist.Signaling my desire to myself. A reminder of what doesn't exist.https://t.co/U8IkhORnbi
"conceptualized Mars Oasis, a project to land a miniature experimental greenhouse on Mars, containing food crops growing on Martian regolith, in an attempt to regain public interest in space exploration. "https://t.co/T787YRUGuWUnderground Greenhouseshttps://t.co/KrfhY4CNak
Nail the landing with thrust vectoring you say?"Is known that bees orient to landmarks in flight. So they can assess their position and speed. This also helps with a landing on a smooth horizontal surface."https://t.co/qmQRTQhmcr
Been watching this guy build out a thrust vectoring drone a little bit at a time. I wonder if he realized he was going to be building one back when I saw he was playing with 3d printed air pressure valves? I did.https://t.co/RRD5Rld7vi
Ever get an idea stuck in your head and wonder how many other have? https://t.co/wGBInrFlQ4
Ever get an idea stuck in your head and you learn about Girard's theories of cultural imitation so you can better map how other people are influenced by ideas?https://t.co/xZ2T47nsZo
Daemonic possession. Swarms under the spell of the prevailing cultural egregore.Mapping the space of the infection.https://t.co/3JRXn8Uju1
Mapping space, literally and figuratively.https://t.co/6vyMNo8kdH
Imitating somebody you don't even know by channeling the things that inspire them.https://t.co/lPclLFtj3U
What inspires them?https://t.co/gvOtAW2gFI
Narrative stigmergy.Reading the tea-leaves to predict the future.Mapping the structures of thought that influence the collective.Tugging at strings, whispering "this way... this way!"https://t.co/6ZRy2ZzZWA
Everything is a scam.https://t.co/QxYZsQ4sn9
Pooping on mars.https://t.co/rqf8htV51c
"bees were exposed to high and low temperature, to smoke, followed by centrifugation. It [...] does affect bee survival negatively. Smoke combined with centrifugation showed a promising effect on defecation, and should be investigated further." 💩https://t.co/fLj6CCHmqg
"Algorithms and challenges in scaling up autonomous flight"https://t.co/DaPdulr84f https://t.co/KLP56zV72W
"Worlds smallest spy drone" in 2017? haha, don't make me laugh.https://t.co/RuQ7RzRprV
It amazes me that in 2018 you can buy cheap drone parts on banggood and there is a mini youtube industry growing about building tiny drones (on the back of affiliate links)https://t.co/zhhospFDns
Whats that, you can just get the opensource schematic for the flexbot board online? https://t.co/UhcBvWO8dxSince 2014?
And an arm compatible android app too? https://t.co/xbKPvNSvFx
Did you know that a bag of chips is made out of mylar and can be used to build a camera drone?https://t.co/x9jyqu4Mf6
Balloons are back in style and it makes me happy.https://t.co/KRvAZTPS8u
Aerial Signage When?https://t.co/qFNTD0kbp3
Less than $900 for a ruggedized solar power capable (12 or 24 battery voltage) with a cellular uplink. Combine with a decent camera + $70 VPU and you can even do edge detection of faces to upload to a remote system for offline processing (supports AWS greengrass). Having fun yet?
Squirrels Bayesd God"We define a Bayesian model that indicates how an ideal observer would optimally integrate landmark cues, and fit this model to the decisions made by squirrels in a spatial memory task."https://t.co/SRhSuhbkWU
Setting the bar low, I see."have a range of more than 12,000 nautical miles, can fly at strikingly high altitudes of 60,000 feet, and can stay aloft for 34 hours straight. [...] at times cost the US more than $220 million to manufacture and equip."https://t.co/XdhD0cfyak
I swear I just want to make a swarm of robot bees.https://t.co/Z1fYrjPOuS
By my estimate I should be able to get about ~1900 nautical miles, so that's no where close to the 12k they're getting. But I'm also assuming this is entirely thru a balloon and freefall, not assisted with motors or extra battery/propulsion.https://t.co/YElBfZ6nqn
I'm also assuming that 2000 feet hang-gliding is the same as 110k feet free-fall. I suspect if I can get a high-altitude slipstream effect similar to what moths do to travel over the ocean.Time to look up how to license long distance UAV for hobby purposes.
If I can get one of these into 110k feet, theoretically that's 2.8 miles of unpowered glide https://t.co/LttdB9nrG6
I wonder what will happen when all of the abandoned malls Amazon has been buying up are turned into weapons manufacturing plants? I have this design in my notes too.https://t.co/q6Eh5xB7Ti
One of my favorite paper air plane designs https://t.co/T99dQFxVTE
Did you see how that amazon design has all the blades slightly ajar from each other? That creates dynamic stability. I think a similar arrangement is patented? But it also showed up in a kickstarter: https://t.co/CqE2ioPuCZ
You'll note that kickstarter was from "Helen Greiner"Same person I think: https://t.co/OUVR2L7V83Very cool design - can even fly with one blade missing.
Personally I'm a fan of the omnicopter design, second only to a single prop thrust vectoring system (for mechanical simplicity) https://t.co/ZwPWr4riIC
I also had the idea of angling the prop blades in a hex copter after seeing a precursor to this design from 2013: https://t.co/VgNWZfEKcWI actually modded my flexbot back in 2014 to a similar structure as that CyPhy one thanks to it being 3d printed.
I never could figure out control for sideways flight w/out rolling, but I knew it was possible. Was excited when CyPhy proved it out.At time, my intent was to aim a camera (or a kinect) directly down to map lawn geometry and manage a fleet of lawnmowers.https://t.co/zjF8v4lasv
This looks fun.https://t.co/SvKmVzDT3E
'lawn mowing'https://t.co/qJILvwG94S
All sorts of strange things around space lasers being normalized. I think it's anxiety over satellite surveillance. I wonder if we're going to see balloons being shot out of sky using lasers. It's hard to get a drone up high enough to shoot them down.https://t.co/UvolIfwFEm
I found an open source optical flow hardware that samples at 250hz.https://t.co/tNa5CD7xBJSeems they've gone thru a couple revisions and are now a full suite of control software https://t.co/HQaKMDRbM5Compat with ROS and Dronekit! Nice.
I saw this 100% lego drone (sans control chip) last month. Did a good job showing how to tune blade speeds.https://t.co/4y676Su1h8It's a big step! Previously I've seen ones that use non-lego parts as part of the drive train and propeller system. https://t.co/IV6iu5nziT
That inertialsense thing looks pretty neat. Seems it's used in lawn mowers!This is actually the same stack I would go with myself, even the Jetson.https://t.co/tbawlfmpsU
I've decided that modeling thrust-vectoring off of bees is a bad idea.Here's a video about how bees just collide with everything.https://t.co/23PwWCSBIM If a rocket does this, it explodes. https://t.co/VWIxc2iqI0
"The robots weigh about 20 pounds and researchers claim they are "virtually indestructible," according to MIT News."https://t.co/9r8YFHGd2Shttps://t.co/9saauYuwRO
All the distance & payload of a gas powered drone, all the silent killing power of an electric.https://t.co/dje3Xt7CNj
Its happening. Oh god.https://t.co/U8g3nbOGsHhttps://t.co/vbY1GOQcgC
"You can escape transmitters, you can erase traces, but eventually with enough drones like these in the sky, you’re only hope of not getting discovered is to live underground."https://t.co/5S8Nk5ZQyy https://t.co/Dg4UhjfRRL
Sometimes I know things because they are at a sweet spot in my threat mitigation strategy -AND- something that might further my life goals.https://t.co/aj0rIUffK6
I know how to dig underground complexes safely.I've been learning how to reinforce dirt walls.Been slowly going thru engineering manuals I find online that explore the principles and topics found here: https://t.co/lncOw43OwEI am become ant king.https://t.co/ReDYbKKIOL
> But Ape, those edge computers don't have anywhere near the compute power to run complex AI applications like GPT3.Ah, yes. This is why we're going to boil the oceans.https://t.co/ATF0L5vsfN
"Phase 1 of Project Natick [July 2015] showed the underwater datacenter concept is feasible; Phase 2 is focused on researching whether the concept is logistically, environmentally and economically practical."https://t.co/XPFogwIS4e
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"Edge computing has emerged as the ideal middle ground between the power of the cloud and the efficiency and accessibility of on-site data gathering and processing,"https://t.co/RhWlFm6BIs
"Going for the back of beyondNothing gonna stop you, there's nothing that strongSo close now you're nearly at the brinkSo, push it, ooh yeah"🎶https://t.co/BIMZ7oYqu7
"Out along the edgesAlways where I burn to beThe further on the edgeThe hotter the intensity" 🎶https://t.co/ZBYDHiAKal
The ironic thing is that Amazon's Blink is going to support 4 years of battery life soon. Still gotta pay a subscription if you wanna store data in the cloud and not use USB.https://t.co/iJy1Zxjy7d
I wonder how much money I would need to build autonomous gut turrets that roam around and identify people by their voice profile or gait.https://t.co/2qnFXLz7av
I hear laughter in my prophetic hallucinations.https://t.co/2shUvMikHX https://t.co/4cbt25vb0T
A new challenger approaches?https://t.co/m08Z9T0Wb4Oh wait no, that was the company that did superfish. #adnoyancehttps://t.co/pD8XQP20Qf
"Blow a kiss, I run through airLeave the past, find nowhereFloating forests in the airClowns all around you" 🎈https://t.co/tskXrgdE7d
"Current designs do not produce sufficient thrust for manned flight or useful loads."Seems we'll have to invent new ones then, no?https://t.co/YMJuGctXFx
"But it was also the debut test of a high-tech, computerized sharpshooter kitted out with artificial intelligence and multiple-camera eyes, operated via satellite and capable of firing 600 rounds a minute."https://t.co/UC6CkbzKZ7Heh https://t.co/Idt6x74mY0
Let's go fly a kite.Up to the highest height.https://t.co/vbY1GOQcgC https://t.co/V19u2bAFA2
"public safety mesh networks"Sends chills down my spine.https://t.co/SaNoc3YMxt
Mesh networks gonna get meshed.https://t.co/FQHpuF2omf
I am so glad to learn from this #adnoyance that https://t.co/x2vK5d3yQ3 has had so much market success that knockoffs are flooding the market just in time for holidays!You can get the flynova for way cheaper than this:https://t.co/08M4G1biOW
lmao. "Inside the drone there is a hard drive with an AI sensor that prevents collisions."https://t.co/qh1WAUS5w8
Become enlightened today! only $12 for 20 https://t.co/WbSvzShym9 https://t.co/WADwUb07SU
Found this under a pile of stuff.NatGeo published this in 2018 https://t.co/d53DFmQ1I6
They show an image of a Cube sat and mention "Dove". The company announced they opened a new facility 7 months later. https://t.co/HxqYvirfRNNow they're being used to track global conflicts.https://t.co/x63EL3lXXu
Omniscient Machine.https://t.co/82crUkXOCg
Every public photo uploaded to Internet mined for intel by machine gods? in my future?"This model, while incredibly powerful, is still limited to the places visited by smartphone-enabled mobile-data-rich social media-posting individuals and journalists."https://t.co/bD5NOy08Av
"Does anyone doubt that a more closely inspected world over the past 150 years would have been a safer one?"https://t.co/Xt38jBjl0g
Track & Trace."What3words is a proprietary geocode system designed to identify any location with a resolution of about 3 metres." https://t.co/4ajZXyMq9zLocation Market.https://t.co/tkDQT8XDUa
"Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present."https://t.co/xy9h0U4Di3
Pandora's demonic will.https://t.co/HaC794Nxz5
"You have to get a license from NOAA to operate your camera. and I was trying to figure out 'why do the weather people care if you have a camera?' and it turns out their a front organization for the CIA and National Reconnaissance Office and the NSA."https://t.co/eT9m0YAklT
"NASA called NOAA people and said what's the story on this?There's a national defense directive: you can't have space to space imaging capability on non government satellitesand they said well what does it say exactly?it's classified"echos of https://t.co/6wnCutXN3U
Oh neat, I hadn't realize they were actually using CubeSats to explore the moon. Looks like they were successful.https://t.co/jQ9vJrlyzh
The lunar icecube looks to be launched in June this year. Hope they are successful. https://t.co/i1D5grxYc5
I miss college.https://t.co/XedAQKmvig
lmao"A professor was looking at a a beanie baby box that was a toy for his granddaughter. And said 'you know designing a spacecraft component to fit inside this beanie baby box would be a very challenging engineering exercise for my engineering students'" https://t.co/1OLpCjcO2Y
I woke up in the middle of thinking about about algorithm on how to get a swarm of cubesats to all agree on how many there were in a swarm where no one had complete information.I may have literally recreated this in my sleep.https://t.co/jQ7maasSZj
Tired: Distributed ledger.Wired: Decentralized ledger.Inspired: Immune system.https://t.co/LeK60CGRsO
Gossiping sentient space satellites."The work explores themes of consciousness, hope, despair, and why humans play sports." https://t.co/2jlS46XbyAhttps://t.co/YYDMXYZ3o3
"We therefore conclude that the collective movement does not arise neither from a wisdom-of-the-crowds type averaging over all opinions nor by the continuous leadership of any single individual," https://t.co/gz6AgEFKYPhttps://t.co/1Jp3Qi5hRN
"even before Russian military forces crossed into Ukraine 3 months ago, private companies were using data from satellites (and other technologies) to closely monitor events on the ground [...] Signs of Life"https://t.co/HjNlPFA9Bx
"6 years ago [...] only theorizing about how to monitor the world 24/7.We can do global coverage, high revisit time, night and day, with satellites looking everywhere on earth" https://t.co/pyHAP7aiB5
According to that PBS newshour show says @capellaspace now has 7 satellites orbiting in space.https://t.co/z6sfYpGXkX
"Born undergroundGrown inside a rocky wombThe Earth is our cradleThe mountain shall become our tomb"🎶https://t.co/D5DxU7rh5YI am a dwarf. I'm am digging a hole.https://t.co/6fTG8FR6Or
Think Sea Steading will save you? Don't worry I gotchu.https://t.co/SPua9z3Wwg
I know how to make corrosion and biofilm resistant sheets of graphene for operating under water.Robot dogs? I want sea spiders.https://t.co/2GaFBsIQMv
They spoke in that article about underwater robot dogs with a swim bladder.Meanwhile... https://t.co/6w1AACngsm