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WriterOfMinds

@WriterOfMinds@sigmoid.social

Loving author of Acuitas the symbolic AI and other robots-in-progress. Aspiring fiction writer, video game appreciator. Satellite electronics are my day job.

#fedi22 #ArtificialIntelligence #Making #Technology #3DPrinting #Books #Gardening #VideoGames

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WriterOfMinds, to spiders
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New jumping spider! Sitticus palustris and Naphrys pulex are the closest options in my spider book, but I'm not sure. I often see P. audax and Platycryptus in the house, but these little brown ones stick to the lawn.
#spider #bug

WriterOfMinds, to robotics
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Results of peristaltic pump trial: not so good. I think it's worth showing that failure happens. I already have some thoughts about what to do next.
Larger rollers = adequate suction, too much rotary resistance; smaller rollers = inadequate suction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecZAF6eL1OI

A more powerful motor could solve it, but the goal was to use the same as the syringe pump for comparison. My other options are softer tubing that squishes more easily, and ball bearings on all shafts.

WriterOfMinds,
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@PKL The existing design does have a front face/lid that would provide that support, but if I put it on, rotational resistance increases greatly due to the shaft binding. A bearing would help with this. I also want to add some small clips or guides to hold the tube down, so it can't escape the rollers and push the lid up.

WriterOfMinds, to 3DPrinting
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Iteration 1 assembled. Next up is seeing if it can pump.

WriterOfMinds, to animals
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She was falling asleep atop all the hard candies 🙃

WriterOfMinds, to animals
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She was rolling in some catnip spray.

WriterOfMinds, to 3DPrinting
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The eyeball's coming together. Someday I'll be done with it! Next up: limit switch assembly.

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@steely_glint What did you have in mind? The current controller is a (rather old) RPi. I have some Python software for streaming video to my desktop, but it's pretty rudimentary. And control is handled locally by OpenCV running on the RPi, since I encountered too much lag if I tried to run control algos on the desktop (a story you're probably familiar with).

WriterOfMinds,
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@steely_glint Cool! I will look at that!

symmetrizer, to random
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One thing I'm noticing is that c++ is not my strong suit. I can get stuff working but the resulting code is more often than not messy and quite ugly.

I don't think I have the guts to publish my keyboard code when I'm finished.

WriterOfMinds,
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@symmetrizer Well ... I wrote some C++ for work once, and walked away feeling that the very design of the language is overly cumbersome.

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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WriterOfMinds,
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@nocontexttrek I'm afraid I might be in this picture

WriterOfMinds, to random
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Okay, yes, the AI craze is getting out of control. What's the most ridiculous thing you've seen somebody try to put "AI" in?

WriterOfMinds, to random
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Dream journal: in the post-apocalypse I bought one of the last intact cans of "Calm-Soda" from the Soda Vendor, to soothe unruly cats and dogs, because I was working as an amateur vet.

WriterOfMinds, to random
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I should probably learn more about gears

WriterOfMinds, to robotics
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Finally picked up ACE again and started doing some powered motion tests. The mechanisms seem fine, but wow are these motors weak. Gonna see what I can do about that.

Andrew, to animals

Urgent question from my 4 year old:

Hee-haw = bray
Neigh = whinny
Oink = snort
Moo = ???

I told her it's just a moo, but she wasn't satisfied.

WriterOfMinds,
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@Andrew Moo = low or lowing.

xorn, to 3DPrinting
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Slowly getting through my Halloween to-do list.

WriterOfMinds,
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@xorn Impressive paint job!

symmetrizer, to random
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It's stupid but I have such a hard time finding a wallet I like. The closest thing yet is some 3d printed one I saw on thingiverse. It should be vegan and small / minimalistic enough to contain more than n number of cards, prefably some reasonable way to keep some coins and new yen paper money but still be small. I also want it to look somewhat nice and not tacticool. Seems impossible to find, I've looked into various variants but nothing I've found is quite right and ticks my boxes.

WriterOfMinds,
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@symmetrizer Have you come across Tyvek wallets in your searches? That's what I use.

WriterOfMinds, to random
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I have a little mystery for you all. This was in the back of my F&SF issue. Searching "Zorganite Encumber" yields zero hits. "Zorganite" alone turns up a few things, including someone's fiction passion project, but it doesn't seem related.

All I know is, if I have to be in the Zorganite Encumber I'm bringing you all with me.

WriterOfMinds,
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@brainwane Not that I remember!

WriterOfMinds, to random
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@austin Please add me to 3D Printing, Fantasy, Gardening, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Makers, Science Fiction.

xorn, to random
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Does it count as a ship being "sunk" if it blew up in dry dock?

WriterOfMinds,
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@xorn Did something blow up? What'd I miss?

mz4250, to 3DPrinting
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Hello friends! Today I continued working on the Nautiloid ship!

I got the modeling done. But now comes actually making it 3D printable! This requires a whole other day of work so I appreciate your patience!

Expect this done tomorrow! Stay tuned!

WriterOfMinds,
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@mz4250 I almost gasped when I saw this, wowww

janellecshane, to random
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Image recognition vs Giraffe With No Spots: they're terrible at it?

Is it because the giraffe (born July 31 2023) is too young to have been in their training data?

https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-vs-a-giraffe-with-no-spots/

WriterOfMinds,
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@janellecshane I'm actually impressed that they correctly identified this animal as a giraffe based on body shape alone, instead of being fooled by the coat color into going with "colt" or "calf."

WriterOfMinds,
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@Cuteblooded For starters, hashtags seem to be a bigger deal here than on Twitter. You can follow hashtags for their themed content, or just search them to find people to follow. And if you hashtag your posts by category, people will actually notice.

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