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Visualizing the Artemis II Mission(foxglove.dev)
10 points by msadowski 2mo ago|0 comments
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NASA launches robot to save Swift telescope falling to Earth(bbc.com)
31 points by msadowski 2mo ago|9 comments
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Xiaomi-robotics-0 – an open-source Vision-Language-Action model(xiaomi-robotics-0.github.io)
1 points by msadowski 7mo ago|0 comments
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Turning a VLP‑16 into a "Spherical" Scanner – A Cave Mapping Project(foxglove.dev)
8 points by msadowski 7mo ago|1 comments
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Robot touch sensing with torque sensors only [video](youtube.com)
3 points by msadowski 11mo ago|1 comments
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by msadowski 1y ago
One thing that comes to mind is checking the timestamps across sensors and other topics. Two cases come to mind: * I was setting up Ouster lidar to use gos time, don’t remember the details now but it was reporting the time ~32 seconds in th
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by msadowski 1y ago
In my case, it’s definitely the data triage. Once I see the signal, I usually have ideas on what’s happening but I’ve been doing this for 11 years. Maybe there could be value in signal interpretation for purely software engineers but I reck
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by msadowski 1y ago
Full disclosure, I work at Foxglove right now. Before joining, I spent over seven years consulting and had more than 50 clients during that period. Here are some thoughts: * Combing through the syslogs to find issues is an absolute nightmar
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Build Toolkits(msadowski.github.io)
1 points by msadowski 1y ago|0 comments
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by msadowski 1y ago
Location: Prague, Czech Republic Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: ROS, Python, C++, Robotics, Px4, Ardupilot, Pixhawk Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mateuszsadowski/ Ema
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Remote Robotics Consulting – Seven Years In(msadowski.github.io)
4 points by msadowski 1y ago|1 comments
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by msadowski 1y ago
Anyone has any stories on companies overusing AI? I’ve had some very frustrating encounters already when non-technical people were trying to help by sending AI solution to the issue which totally didn’t make any sense. I liked how the resea
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by msadowski 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Prague, Czech Republic | Robotics Software Developer I'm a robotics software developer with experience leading teams and integrating software on various platforms (custom industrial robots in smelters, UAVs, rov
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by msadowski 2y ago
I’ve been consulting for close to 7 years in robotics now, robotics being a niche field I guess it has been a bit easier for me to find clients. I never had a period without a client and never had to do cold outreach. Here are some things I
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by msadowski 2y ago
Same experience here. I also found that if they haggle on the price at the beginning they turn out very difficult to work with.
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Tell HN: FOSDEM 2025 is starting in an hour
2 points by msadowski 2y ago|0 comments
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by msadowski 2y ago
There was a ~€20k electric car from the VW group. It was called Skoda Citigo iV but they axed it. Seems like they are walking in circles.
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by msadowski 2y ago
One thing I learned really quickly renting in Europe is to take pictures of the rental before driving off. Last time I rented a car there was a huge scratch on the side that wasn’t included in their pickup form. When I returned the car they
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Ask HN: Those who took a sabbatical from a side project: how did it work out?
2 points by msadowski 2y ago|0 comments
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by msadowski 2y ago
Can you recommend any resources on nix?
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by msadowski 3y ago
I maintain a list of interesting robotics projects ( https://github.com/msadowski/awesome-weekly-robotics ). You will find a simulator section there but whether they are useful for you will depend on the details of your
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by msadowski 3y ago
Fun fact: this project might or might not have started as an open-source smart robotic gripper that you can build yourself: https://punyo.tech/
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Ask HN: Small newsletter creators, how do you handle DMARC?
3 points by msadowski 3y ago|2 comments
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by msadowski 3y ago
My journey is a little bit opposite to the author’s: I studied robotics and started learning programming by myself to create software for robots. There are two observations I have that can be useful to people making the software->robotic
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by msadowski 3y ago
I’m about to buy all the appliances to a new place in Europe and could use some more horror stories and learn which brands to avoid. So far I’ve been told to stay away from Samsung ovens. Anyone has any regrets on appliances?
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by msadowski 3y ago
That’s a bummer if true and not a temporary issue. The RSS is my workflow for creating a newsletter and if RSS does not work then I’m way less likely to include any yt content because I simply won’t come across this. It’s not like Google wo
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by msadowski 3y ago
There was a time where these were used heavily in robotics, nowadays people usually use other sensors but every now and then a project using a Kinect pops up. Last one off the top of my head is this one: https://github.com/m
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by msadowski 3y ago
Check out Naonosaur: https://github.com/rnanosaur/nanosaur . If you would like something larger and with a bit more off the shelf components then jpl open source rover has seem quite a bit of updates recently: https:&
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by msadowski 3y ago
We bought Tody before they changed to a subscription model. The app allows you to create a task list for cleaning of each of the rooms with a desired repetition period for a given task (for example mop the kitchen floor every 3 weeks). I fo
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Remote Robotics Consulting – A Five-Year Retrospective(msadowski.github.io)
2 points by msadowski 3y ago|0 comments

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