What would you think if a professor would ask the students to do an assignment only on Apple products? That would be absurd, wouldn’t it? Now remember that students are forced to deliver projects on Microsoft Word, MATLAB, and SolidWorks on daily basis! @AcademicChatter

First roadside drive for MOSS, the 3D printed open source litter picking robot. Tarmac, slopes, dry grass, fresh grass, the tracks go through all of it like a small bulldozer, nothing jams. Driven from the pad, straight from the battery switch, no laptop in the loop. Numbers from the onboard log: over 8 min of driving, over 70 m on each track by the encoders. Pack at 11.68 V at the start, 11.34 V at the stop, roughly 9% of the pack by the resting voltage afterwards. And only about half of the pack is usable before the tracks start stalling in pivots. The motors and the hardware in general held very well. Zero stall guard trips, zero dead pivots. The battery is the weak part, a $20 3S4P pack, 12 cells, sold as 40 Ah and clearly not. Charger and pack get replaced next. Rough estimate with proper high capacity cells: about 50 min and 430 m per charge.

I don't know how to explain this but if anyone can do for tractor software what you have done for TVs, they'll become some type of mythical American hero whose name is etched in stone for 100 years

I'm happy to share that Mojo and MAX are now fully open - for development, extension, and commercial use! This includes the full Mojo programming language, but also the MAX graph compiler, MLRT runtime internals, and hardware abstraction logic. Get your agents going!👇

Rule of thumb for MOST of you right now ———-> don’t expose anything to the internet. - Close all those ports - Put everything behind a firewall - Use VPN for access Keep coding all that personal software but keep your attack surface small.

If you're headed to #electronica, come check out the edge lab LIVE! events on Wed 11/11. I'll be hosting a workshop (reinforcement learning for #robotics) and evening interviews/demos. Use the code GUEST-SHAWN for free admission (first 50). #embedded #electronics Links ⬇️

Both of these UI's are native code. One is Swift ~80MB only works on Mac One is Zig ~10MB works on Mac/Linux/Windows

I tried Solidcraft @bherbruckx and got some really nice surprises as well as some early adopter pain points. Take a look here: piped.video/8MvwReHMxJE

Introducing Bitwater: the water heater element that mines Bitcoin. It screws into the electric tank you already have. Physically decentralized mining that runs no matter what 🧵 Heat water. Mine Bitcoin. Same tank.

#CadCraft is a suite of 8 engineering applications for the #AEC industry. All of these applications are free and open source. This video provides a basic overview of the suite. It is still work in progress. piped.video/lhkd8FdMJvA

Want to learn about screws? Have created a platform where you can learn everything about screws. Check it out👇 github.com/adarshmalpeddiwar…

The POWER of /print3d skill I like that Raspberry Pi case, so I just drop the picture on Hermes using Opus 5.5 and in a couple of minutes I have it ready to be printed. Trust me, you should try it. github.com/mfranzon/print3d

The Nxt addon for #FreeCAD is now available through the add-on manager. This update also includes the new Fillet and Chamfer tools I've been working on. I put together a crappy demo reel to showcase big features!

Nederland op plaats 89 (van 187) in de Energy Security Index van @ASI Nog onder Zimbabwe, Guyana en Equatoriaal Guinea. Dat krijg je als je Groningen sluit en inzet op wind en zon zonder voldoende regelbare stroom. Energiezekerheid op Derde Wereld-niveau! adamsmith.org/research/globa…

Has anyone put a team of ~10,000 agents on fusion reactor design, especially for something like a stellerator? Feels like the kind of optimization problem they would excel at. Clear metrics, can be iterated on purely in simulation

Watching Italian men show the free Palestine theives who’s boss is my new favorite pastime on this app.

Given recent shenanigans, we had an influx of new followers. This is for them: Want to learn your way around #FreeCAD? Follow @Deltahedra3D's famous #tutorial: piped.video/watch?v=KmtqNaGP… #OpenSource #CAD

Anatomy is now available on paper. You can now generate printable PDFs of any figure, making it easier to bring anatomy to life at home, in the classroom, or for homework and learning.

Anybody had tried to reverse engineer an android phone firmware with REA? To make a custom fw for older phones and give them a second life? @morluto

After WEEKS of effort, billions of tokens burned (40k+ USD), and countless hours arguing with Grok about whether a kart counts as a car, we finally did it. Introducing Recraft-SuperTuxKart: a 100% open source, ground-up re-implementation of the hit game SuperTuxKart. ✅ 100% feature parit ✅ Runs on every major OS ✅ All tracks included (binaries hallucinated directly by the LLM) ✅ Fully compatible with existing SuperTuxKart servers ✅ Artwork faithfully replicated with Powerful™ AI Generators ✅ Indistinguishable from the original in blind tests Full source 👇git clone github.com/supertuxkart/stk-… Want fund it? Become a member: members.supertuxkart.net/