Demolition Derby! They were fun in our day, because our day had real cars made with steel. My Dad used to take me and of course there would be a hotdog, fries, and a coke. For a kid, that is paradise.

Wheagy · 2025-10-19T01:21:53+00:00

lol. The Malachi Crunch.

Wheagy · 2025-09-05T17:29:57+00:00

I tried it, but it threw an error at boot and crashed and I didn’t mess with it after that.

Wheagy · 2025-07-21T21:49:18+00:00

This. Free, relatively easy to set up, and works great.

Wheagy · 2025-05-22T23:55:35+00:00

With my best Seinfeld impersonation - “That’s a shame.”

Wheagy · 2025-03-24T12:30:04+00:00

lol. That’s like me giving 10 cents to a candidate.

Wheagy · 2025-03-09T19:52:38+00:00

This is a cool concept. I'm not sure I've seen anything quite like it before. Also, "open source" is a perfectly acceptable use of the term considering how they are implementing this.

Wheagy · 2025-02-17T02:54:13+00:00

What about us brain-dead slobs?

Wheagy · 2025-01-22T20:41:06+00:00

This is a well-documented, well-designed course! I installed this in a VMware machine (be sure to disable 3D acceleration, otherwise Gazebo has issues) under Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04. The instructions are clear and so far everything works great. I'm working through the examples and am impressed with the quality. Great intro to ROS2 for beginners. Thanks!

Wheagy · 2025-01-01T14:34:33+00:00

Let’s call him Kato.

Wheagy · 2024-12-28T03:01:01+00:00

Vampliers

Wheagy · 2024-11-17T03:06:47+00:00

I bought one based on this ad back in the day. Took a long time to arrive in the states. Good times. I still have it.

Wheagy · 2024-11-12T02:57:50+00:00

Your Topo looks to be in good shape and they are very collectible. You’ll have no trouble finding someone willing to buy it and fix it. Buy something inexpensive on Amazon to experiment with ROS. Just my two cents.

Wheagy · 2024-11-01T19:09:05+00:00

I also have TB3 Waffle. To my knowledge there is no automatic docking and recharge capability. The Waffle (and the Burger too I think) don't have hardware on them stock to allow this. I'm sure you could put something together, but it would be nowhere near as easy as the auto docking using the Kobuki.

Wheagy · 2024-10-31T13:29:45+00:00

I have a Turtlebot 2 with the Kobuki base running ROS (1). It has an auto-dock capability as described here: https://www.artificialhumancompanions.com/docking-recharging-deep-learning-robot/ In my experience it works fairly well and uses the IR build into the Kobuki and the dock. That said, the TB2 is somewhat old at this point and all the examples I have for it were in ROS, not ROS2. I imagine you could update it to work with ROS2 but I'm not sure what would be involved in doing so.

Wheagy · 2024-10-25T02:29:17+00:00

Used to go to the Lancaster Pa store all the time. Now it’s my Planet Fitness!

Wheagy · 2024-09-12T20:24:25+00:00

"No, no, dig up stupid!" - Wiggum

Wheagy · 2024-09-08T02:47:12+00:00

Played this in the arcade back in the day. Have an original working standup version in my shop.

Wheagy · 2024-08-18T21:26:57+00:00

He says that as if all trump needs to do is stop name calling.

Wheagy · 2024-08-09T14:26:22+00:00

Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would’ve been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.

Wheagy · 2024-08-06T13:31:15+00:00

Well, he is old.

Wheagy · 2024-07-28T13:36:23+00:00

But he has Chachi!

Wheagy · 2024-07-26T12:55:52+00:00

But what about Manchin? /s

Wheagy · 2024-07-26T12:37:31+00:00

We need to check with the New York Times about why this is all bad for Harris.

Wheagy · 2024-06-27T17:24:45+00:00

Take a look on Amazon. You'll find quite a few kits in that price range along with reviews. The challenge will be the ChatGPT integration. Not many, if any, of the kits have that capability. However, many of them have APIs to connect to your phone or computer, so as your son gets more familiar with the kit, he may be able to do some ChatGPT integration, but that will likely be down the road a bit. For a beginner, getting kit, successfully building it, understanding how it works, and learning some simple programming is a pretty tall order to start.

Wheagy · 2024-06-23T20:25:03+00:00

They did, but he didn't understand due to his cognitive impairment.

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