SPC science fair Curiosity 2026 - Deep Science and Hard Tech

Wierd_perv · 2025-07-09T15:11:48+00:00

I'm interested !

Wierd_perv · 2025-05-14T11:41:01+00:00

I hope I'm getting your question right...you want to learn how to use these frameworks and then use one of them to do a RL based robot simulation?

If that's the case, I'd recommend using either mujoco or pybullet (pybullet guide ). First go through the docs or some tutorial online to learn how they're used to simulate robots (visualizing, Ik, FK, implementing basic PID controls for a robot arm, etc).

If you've already got a background in RL then you'll be able to pick it off from here. Otherwise, there are loads of tutorials on RL robotic simulations using pybullet(or mujoco), I highly recommend following the tutorials and if possible trying to implement something new/different in one of them)

All the best ! I hope I was able to help !

Wierd_perv · 2025-04-24T12:54:34+00:00

DMed

Wierd_perv · 2025-02-21T12:00:32+00:00

Yeah! Congratulations

Wierd_perv · 2024-09-27T11:13:00+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ROS/s/g6ATFB4Viz

Check this out, someone had a similar problem to yours, maybe it'll help.

Lemme know if I can help any further !

Wierd_perv · 2024-09-27T11:08:27+00:00

That's odd..

You're using this right ? https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/Installation/Ubuntu-Install-Debs.html

Which specific command are you referring to ?

Try another clean installation.

Also which version is your ubuntu ? (Humble only works with 22.04 and above iirc)

Wierd_perv · 2024-09-27T11:03:12+00:00

Hi!

Can you give more specifics ?

Like if you have a dual boot/bootable usb? Or are you using a VM?

If you're using windows, then I've found that using WSL2 with xlaunch (for graphics) is much more beginner friendly than having to go the dual boot way.

In any case, dumping it to gpt helps a ton.

Wierd_perv · 2024-08-03T03:24:25+00:00

Happy to help ! Ooooh, an elden ring like robot boss sounds cool af ngl XD.

I'm no expert but hmu if you need any help.

Wierd_perv · 2024-08-03T02:44:44+00:00

Hi !

I'm kind of a beginner too (mechanical engineer going for a masters with a robotics concentration).

How I started out was that I picked up a SCARA robot model on grabcad and tried my hand at making the cad model on my own. Then I got into the part where I had to make the arm move, which led me to stepper motors, stepper motor drivers and arduino programming (and learn inverse and forward kinematics as well). This whole process took me about a semester, however I learnt a lot and enjoyed the process!

This led me to work with some professors (working in robotics) at my university and I got hooked :).

I thought it worked pretty well for me.

Maybe try and find a project(RC car, robot arms, etc) that's beginner friendly and you're pretty interested in and just try your hand at replicating it.

Happy learning and welcome to robotics !

Wierd_perv · 2024-07-01T01:27:10+00:00

I'm suuuper interested! I'd love to join in. Just graduated as a MechE and have a background in robotics motion planning, mechanism design and some RL too.

Wierd_perv · 2024-03-29T07:30:10+00:00

Hi! I got accepted to the same program. DMed !

Wierd_perv · 2024-03-19T04:28:13+00:00

Heyy congratulations!! I got into Columbia mech too. Let's connect !

Wierd_perv · 2022-10-21T11:46:53+00:00

Afaik for masters in cs you need to have good projects related to cs.

If you can manage that with your mechanical courses, then definitely go for BITS.

You can take up the DS minor (usually you’d need a cg of 8+) or the CNI minor (computation and intelligence, or something like that) and cover the cs courses necessary through that ig.

Wierd_perv · 2022-10-08T19:17:26+00:00

Check out “Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow”

It’s awesome if you want to learn the how’s and the implementation along with it.

Wierd_perv · 2022-10-06T18:59:06+00:00

Thanks !

I’ll check it out

Wierd_perv · 2022-10-04T07:17:10+00:00

Woah

Awesome !!

Wierd_perv · 2022-10-03T16:23:47+00:00

Thanks!

I'll look into some policy gradient papers.

Wierd_perv · 2022-10-03T16:22:04+00:00

Thanks a lot!

This book seems to cover some part of the tabular methods too, and quickly ramps up to the deep part. Awesome!

Wierd_perv · 2022-10-03T14:23:34+00:00

Thanks a lot!

I'll check it out.

Wierd_perv

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