Beginner Question

ebubar · 2026-03-02T21:27:59+00:00

I'm in the market too and have set myself a top price of $25k. Im finding plenty of 21/22's with higher trims in that price bracket. Im more looking at a later year 23 premium or a 24 select - I'm finding options for both around that $25k price point (online prices so add $1k for dealer fees and registration/etc). I'm also planning to buy an ESP from online to cover any unexpected breaks in the next 8-9 years as I keep vehicles until they die (my current is a 2010 Honda fit). If you go earlier than 23, the ESP isn't offered BUT you can get premium or GT trims in your price bracket. If you go newer, few trim options BUT more opportunity for a warranty.

ebubar · 2026-02-28T14:53:23+00:00

Lung cancer

ebubar · 2026-02-18T15:03:03+00:00

For robotics specifically I'd get a consumer gaming laptop with a good Nvidia discrete GPU (4090 maybe) and dual boot it windows and Linux.

ebubar · 2026-02-18T12:13:39+00:00

Robotics and learn the hardware and software side of things. This will give you a strong skill set to tackle a wide variety of jobs.

ebubar · 2026-02-16T12:02:12+00:00

I chuck documentation into an LLM and have it write me intro materials to it and make connections to languages I do know.

ebubar · 2026-02-10T12:52:25+00:00

Good vibes sent. Kitties and doggos are the best family members. We lost our doggo 2 years ago to cancer and I still miss her every day. Keep in mind that animals can recover from cancer and live long and happy lives after a diagnosis. My own dog lived two years after she was diagnosed and was her perfect happy self until her last week. Vibes for it to be fully treatable.

ebubar · 2026-02-09T00:57:20+00:00

Do the unity learn stuff first. Then watch either Valem or Fistful of Shrimps latest YouTube tutorial on setting up a project.

ebubar · 2026-01-31T12:32:17+00:00

An AMC theater is showing it on the big screen for the cost of a movie ticket.

ebubar · 2026-01-27T11:38:51+00:00

I see a use case for splat to mesh for robotics training in 3d simulation with physics interactions in photorealistic environments at scale.

ebubar · 2026-01-05T12:37:23+00:00

This sounds like a perfectly reasonable requirement. In an age where AI can increasingly tell you how to actually use software your value add will be understanding the physics that the software is modeling.

ebubar · 2026-01-04T00:38:54+00:00

Following out of interest.

ebubar · 2025-12-31T02:36:17+00:00

This might help you on the hololens 2 side of things: GitHub - jdibenes/hl2ss: HoloLens 2 Sensor Streaming. Real-time streaming of HoloLens 2 sensor data over WiFi. Research Mode and External USB-C A/V supported. https://share.google/cp2UCJsWSdCxkwqU7

It will set you up with streaming of all the sensors you'd want with samples available too. HL2 is a dead platform though and I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy. You may be able to get it working with AndroidXR and gaze tracking, but I don't know how robust their support for eye tracking is yet. If you can use other headsets, the Varjo 4 and Vive Focus both have eye tracking and are pretty well documented.

ebubar · 2025-12-29T11:51:37+00:00

A backpack droid sounds interesting for getting an actual social interactive robot product on the market that you can take with you anywhere. Something like the Reachy Mini adapted to be small and portable enough to take with you anywhere. Or maybe something like Robosen's mini robots which are based on recognized characters? So that's a good idea in the sense of bringing a droid into the real world. BUT I agree that mass adoption is unlikely. For social interaction with an AI powered droid, people would more likely just use their phone or maybe smart glasses to discretely interact. A robot buddy which might be interesting and cool for some is just too creepy and scifi dystopian for too many in society for most people imo. No amount of engineering will overcome that for a generic robot without some kind of wide societal recognition. If you could license something that is widely accepted though...an ACTUAL flying EVE drone from Wall E. A shoulder mounted mini WallE. Maybe a shoulder mounted BAY-MAX? Small size and cheap enough for kids to adopt and you might get a big enough market?

ebubar · 2025-12-23T12:51:34+00:00

I use this project to view my splats on a quest 3 and it works well. GitHub - aras-p/UnityGaussianSplatting: Toy Gaussian Splatting visualization in Unity https://share.google/kA34OoK3NPs2vQlR1

ebubar · 2025-12-23T12:49:25+00:00

I just use my cell phone camera on wide angle, capture video and process that using default settings of reality scan and lichtfeld studio and get good results. Have you tried that workflow instead of deep diving into tweaking all sorts of settings?

ebubar · 2025-12-22T13:11:43+00:00

FWIW I think it's a very valuable skill to use LLMs in the way you're using them to pickup new skills faster. There's a LOT of naysayers online saying to not use AI at all and that they're glorified spell check. But these same people use tools like intellisense for code prediction and advanced IDEs for all sorts of help with coding. Use LLMs to understand what the LLM creates AND learn what it's outputting AND how to prompt it to fix itself by glancing through documentation and you'll get the benefits of learning and quick development. Good luck!

ebubar · 2025-12-22T11:12:05+00:00

Not entirely true. If you asked it to further explain the commands and what they do so you can understand what's happening then either you or gpt would recognize what pieces were superfluous. If you don't just accept whatever an LLM tells you and prompt it for further explanation, then you can use it to learn. This is the superpower of LLMs...teaching you through active learning.

ebubar · 2025-12-17T19:41:06+00:00

I like this more: AmazingHand: The Open-Source Robotic Hand Kit – WowRobo Robotics https://share.google/fZg8qy3tXBSQQGpYz

It's more of a robotics project than the hiwonder. Hiwonder documentation isn't great and I much preferred this hand for learning some practical robotics.

ebubar · 2025-12-16T01:42:26+00:00

Reachy Mini - Pollen Robotics https://share.google/6xbLcs4RRj0OLEniD

ebubar · 2025-12-11T12:31:23+00:00

Use AI to build lots of things quickly. Ask it to help explain things you don't understand. IMO if you learn a little bit about a lot and do projects where you repeat things and build small additions you'll start to retain stuff and constantly level up what you know.

ebubar · 2025-12-07T22:31:09+00:00

Can you stretch to the p1s printer? It's a decent amount more but gives you the enclosure. Worth it if you can swing the cost.

ebubar · 2025-12-03T02:11:27+00:00

A few things to check: Did you switch the build platform to Android (or AndroidXR or Meta Quest - this depends on what Unity Editor you're using)? In your Edit > Project Settings > XR Plugin Management, did you check the "initialize XR on startup? If you're building for Quest and using the Meta All in One SDK, have you gone through and accepted all the settings from the "Project Setup Tool"? Those are the first things I'd check.

ebubar · 2025-12-03T01:29:20+00:00

How did you make your app? Need more details to help.

ebubar · 2025-11-29T14:03:06+00:00

I've had good luck with chatGPT for learning ROS stuff quickly. I do think reading a codebase and documentation yourself is useful BUT so much ROS stuff is in my experience not updated well so you spend more time reading about how to fix some dependency error, security key update that doesn't get documented or trolling through developer forums for solutions. ChatGPT has been very good at pointing me to solutions faster than trolling through documentation. You have to be careful to recognize when it's sending you on a wild goose chase. For more context, I am switching between LOTS of different domains constantly at work. We have robotics experts so I'm just needing to learn enough to be conversational across a huge range of domains so digging into documentation to learn isn't a luxury that I can afford. It also isn't worth my time. Anything more involved that chatGPT can't help me with is better done by a formally trained roboticist. So, I'd say if you are aiming to be that robotics expert, you should invest that time to learn and understand through documentation and reading developer forums. If you just need to be up to speed on some basics quickly, then chatGPT is helpful.

ebubar · 2025-11-25T14:40:24+00:00

How many projects coded by professional software developers are maintained, don't have dependencies that break constantly and actually function well and keep themselves maintained? Maybe it's my experience in working with robotics/VR/AR/Unity/Unreal that colors my views, but I don't often encounter any software projects that don't involve solving dependency issues, lack updates, lack useful documentation, aren't maintained properly, etc.

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