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Show HN: Leica M2Pi: upgraded MPi digital-film camera, source release(msgtn.xyz)
2 points by psychomugs 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot(msgtn.xyz)
58 points by psychomugs 2y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: CatBot, a notification system for stray cats(michaelsuguitan.com)
1 points by psychomugs 2y ago|0 comments
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by psychomugs 2y ago
Thanks! There is a guide available in the repo's wiki: https://github.com/hrc2/blossom-public/wiki Our contributors' forks and extensions may also be useful: https://github.com/interactio
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by psychomugs 2y ago
Plugging my own robot: Blossom is an open-source social robot made from 3D-printed or lasercut parts and a crocheted / knit cover. https://github.com/hrc2/blossom-public It's basically a floating head that ot
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by psychomugs 3y ago
I've been working on a redesign of a small robot platform I designed in grad school ( https://github.com/psychomugs/r0b0 ). We designed the robot as a small robot construction kit for other researchers and robotic
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by psychomugs 3y ago
Not an official startup, but I developed an open-source laser cut and crocheted social robot platform during grad school. We ran a few workshops for ~middle schoolers to build it and there are a few built by other researchers and roboticist
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by psychomugs 3y ago
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
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by psychomugs 3y ago
I've been making origami bookmarks since elementary school [1]. Recently I've been making them out of ephemera, e.g. old coupons, the receipt for the book itself. [1] https://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Origami-Bookmar
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by psychomugs 3y ago
Sounds project-y.
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by psychomugs 3y ago
> "hell is other people" Also, from the same author, "heaven is each other."
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by psychomugs 3y ago
That great guy sounds like a great guy. Wish I knew someone like them.
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by psychomugs 3y ago
Fish rarely know what water is.
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by psychomugs 3y ago
Now more than ever, it would behoove photo-makers and -viewers - i.e. everyone - to read Sontag's "In Plato's Cave" as a reminder that there is nary a thing as a real photograph. https://openlab.citytech.cuny
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by psychomugs 3y ago
BetterSnapTool is the first thing I install on macOS.
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by psychomugs 3y ago
As an Asian American, yes.
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by psychomugs 3y ago
I wonder what captcha-like mechanism they'll use for annotating this new dataset for their self-driving cars. Gamifying the videos post-drive with AR?
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by psychomugs 3y ago
The HBO show is great, but his Vimeo is better IMO. I particularly like 'The Road To Magnasanti' and 'How To Remain Single.'
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by psychomugs 3y ago
John Wilson, the mastermind behind HBO's Nathan Fielder-produced "How To With John Wilson," shot some beautiful scenes of Vegas' Pinball Hall of Fame. https://vimeo.com/180067392 (~13:00)
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by psychomugs 3y ago
> bully each other at a scale A phrase I didn't know I needed to learn.
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by psychomugs 3y ago
Behind my phone, the Fuji XF10 - their answer to Ricoh's GR - is probably my most-used camera out of a cabal that includes the X100V, X-T3, and X-Pro2. It's a shame that this pocket of pocketable cameras with physical controls is
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by psychomugs 3y ago
"The idea of opportunity costs presumes the fungibility of human experience: all our activities are equivalent or interchangeable once they are reduced to the abstract currency of clock time, and its wage correlate. But, against the ev
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by psychomugs 3y ago
Thanks! I imagine this would drop in unmodified on the M3, which may actually yield a nicer experience thanks to the the increased magnification of the viewfinder compared to the M2.
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by psychomugs 3y ago
As simple as grabbing it off with tweezers.
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by psychomugs 3y ago
Thanks, I felt like the term I was using was wrong.
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by psychomugs 3y ago
I got the M2 for $500 in 2017. Combined with the 12mm I bought in Japan on the weak ¥en, I had just under $1000 into the system.
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Show HN: The Leica MPi: A Leica M2 with a Raspberry Pi-Powered Digital Sensor(psychomugs.github.io)
65 points by psychomugs 3y ago|44 comments
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by psychomugs 3y ago
> Do you not see how your position could be interpreted in a negative way by the very people you intend to malign? Again, politics aren't people; I can hate the game but not the players [1], who are also human beings with their own
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by psychomugs 3y ago
> You seem to be arguing again that the stakes are quite high. The sources I provided regarding mental health are barely within the last decade. The original quote is from several decades ago. The stakes referred to refer to research out
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by psychomugs 3y ago
> The definition you provided is "dangerously aggressive; marked by violence or ferocity". You can't just leave out key aspects of the definition to make it fit your narrative (and again, that's all your providing her

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