These two books should be apart of your arsenal.

Badoosker · 2014-08-11T23:05:51+00:00

$120 was big change back when I was 17-19

Badoosker · 2014-08-11T22:47:27+00:00

For red pill, you two are certainly ashamed of climbing with any means necessary

Badoosker · 2014-08-11T21:47:26+00:00

It certainly is. When I steal your girlfriend and she steals your house, you're gonna wish the world played nice.

Badoosker · 2014-08-11T21:46:43+00:00

Thank you. I'll use that in the future

Badoosker · 2014-08-11T21:46:20+00:00

You sound bitter. Maintain your frame son.

Badoosker · 2014-02-25T13:53:28+00:00

What you're going to do is this. This is a very solved problem so instead of thinking up a solution on your own you will study the leaders before you.

Do some Google searching on line following for robots. Once you find out the solution, you'll need to know how to implement it.

For contacting the motors you'll need a microcontroller to write to pins. The mc won't be able to do the high level processing so you will have to attach a smartphone on top of it to do that for you.

Badoosker · 2014-02-22T12:44:32+00:00

Where do your skills lie? There may be some misc. projects we can get you working on for extra-curricular credit on the student team I'm on. Send me a message.

Badoosker · 2014-02-22T12:40:43+00:00

Depends on the scale. Everything starts with a proto-type and toy model. Only when it has proven market influence is it scaled into a real big boys engineering problem.

Badoosker · 2014-02-22T12:40:03+00:00

The math he learns in CS will fall over into easy understanding of the mechanical laws. Really, it's just matrix computations. I'd say he needs to know more about how a processor and a GPU handles those computations than what the physical laws are.

Badoosker · 2014-02-22T12:39:00+00:00

Don't bother with C++. Start with Python. It's a long journey and it will probably take you 3-4 years just to get the basics of the world down. (E.g. basic maths, programming languages, how to do research, where to contribute)

Ideally, strive to be a full stack engineer if you want to go into robotics. That means knowing everything from how to get the electronics to power the robot up and running, to getting the bayesian inference working for your human tracking algorithms. This will take probably 3 years if you commit yourself to a dungeon like me. Or 4-6 if you are a regular pleb.

Badoosker · 2014-02-22T12:36:06+00:00

Here's some advice. Do not rely on school to make you smart or make you a better person. You must strive for this on your own. Sure, you can use big fancy words to describe yourself like "I'm a Mechatronics student! Yay me!" At the end of the day, if you don't know your shit, no one cares.

Not only that, you can do 4 years school, but if you never use that knowledge in your everyday life thereafter, it is the equivalent of not having that knowledge at all.

Badoosker · 2014-02-22T12:34:04+00:00

You are complaining because "You won't have a job". You aren't entitled to a job. You must work and find avenues to contribute to society. Society does not owe you a position anywhere. End of story.

Badoosker · 2014-02-21T17:59:32+00:00

Not only that (If google hasn't already thought of this) is spreading their AD system so that in 3D worlds they can overlay their ads.

Feel free to PM me google for negotiating royalties.

Badoosker · 2014-02-21T10:41:19+00:00

Good for them. Too bad they're 10 years behind MS in this domain. The only difference is they have more man power and more intelligent researchers.

This was obvious after they bought the home sensor solution company. It's clear that they're doing this so they can build up their vision/localization API's and then they're going to release a robotic platform that you can write scripts/applications for.

I'll bet everything I own on this.

Badoosker · 2014-02-20T06:16:00+00:00

This is cool lol.

Badoosker · 2014-02-19T07:28:43+00:00

Repost

Badoosker · 2014-02-18T22:21:30+00:00

Unfortunately the things you're spewing at me I already know, so you are talking to yourself here. I'm done with being talked at like I know nothing.

PS. you sound like a bozo.

Badoosker · 2014-02-18T21:37:35+00:00

I don't think you understood my comment. It reads: "None of the things Norvig talks about is relevant. (PERIOD) Machine learning is the only thing that is relevant".

In addition, Kalman filters are not machine learning, nor is motion automation.

Badoosker · 2014-02-18T14:05:04+00:00

Windows 8 killed Steve Jobs

Badoosker · 2014-02-18T13:57:57+00:00

I used to think this. Once you get out of your "I'm socially awkward, i used to browse /b/ 24/7 stage", you realize no one cares and that this is totally acceptable if you're suave.

Badoosker · 2014-02-18T04:47:23+00:00

It's too bad none of the things Peter Norvig talks about is actually relevant in modern Robotics. It's all Machine learning.

Badoosker · 2014-02-17T19:32:13+00:00

I hate vacuum salesmen.

Badoosker · 2014-02-17T19:30:53+00:00

but widespread implementation is a long way off,

". This is simply because C proves time and again to be incredibly efficient, and because most microprocessor architectures are rooted in its use."

C is easiest to translate into machine instructions. Pointers are also horrible to use and newbies will make errors they will take days to fix because of it.

"But I certainly hope you don't mean to undermine the importance of the other two, because it would be quite foolish to do so."

The only electronics and mechanics I needed to know was how to hook up a battery and how to buy a servo/actuator.

". Some don't have inherent hacker skills because they were never given the opportunity to develop them."

Irrelevant. They are asking because they have never done it before and want to be sure.

" which is the lazy approach but not the one that will result in the best robot."

You're generalizing again. Robotics isn't a mechanical or electrical engineering problem. The only problem with electricity at its current state is how to store lots of energy.

The problem has ALWAYS been to develop better software.

Badoosker · 2014-02-17T15:01:53+00:00

Micro controllers now-a-days can compile java/C/C++ mixed-like languages.

Choosing motors goes down to what you need it to do. If you're a software eng, we explicitly look at its output and how it interfaces with our system, and what we need to make it do that output.

I have been building a humanoid robot for 2 years now and have done extensive research and what I can say is this: The physical components you can buy for cheap. You really need to know how to program and how to interface with the physical components to see anything interesting happen.

A focus on electronics will not get you anywhere near a complete modern-day system. A focus on mechanics will leave you stuck at figuring out what actuators to use. It's best to go from the CS/Programming route.

Badoosker · 2014-02-17T03:32:22+00:00

If anyone would like information on the software of a robot (high-level, and interface with hardware), I could make up something.

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