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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-12-06 at 13:56

Iโ€™m not afraid of robots taking over because I still need to flip my vacuum over to clear all the stuck hair from the brushroll several times a year.

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-12-02 at 20:24

It is so humbling as a dev to try creating an embedded display driver, especially without a datasheet and the only implementation being for a C++ graphics framework. ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-11-24 at 17:35

Is this too much to pack for tinkering while on vacation? ๐Ÿ˜…How do I pick?

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-11-23 at 17:44

I backed every Pebble Kickstarter and built apps for my watches. So Iโ€™m genuinely excited to develop for this new JS-based watch platform, powered by the Moddable SDK: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pocuter/spectra

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-11-22 at 16:16

Last year, my knowledge of hardware was focused on microcontrollers & home automation with very little awareness about the wider world of robotics. Yesterday, I observed my first meeting of the Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA) where I was formally introduced as the representative for Viam! ๐Ÿ™Œ

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-11-14 at 19:34

Iโ€™ve had just enough caffeine today to be engaged by all the multi-tasking Iโ€™ve been doing, instead of overwhelmed and distracted. ๐Ÿ˜…

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-11-07 at 20:32

A year ago, I set out to bring together two platforms with similar goals of making hardware and automation more accessible: Viam and Home Assistant. Now Iโ€™m happy to share the community integration that brings on-device ML to your home!

https://www.viam.com/post/home-assistant-iot-home-automation

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-10-31 at 13:14

Itโ€™s great to see the local meetup scene start to come back to life in NYC. Iโ€™m stoked to attend Chinatown.js in a couple weeks!

https://lu.ma/fv7iqo1w?tk=UDzGJl

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-10-29 at 13:03

To demonstrate the concept, I created a robot server in Node.js paired with a simple web app using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to blink an LED in real-time ๐Ÿ˜„ Overall, this experience helped me understand the fundamentals of how Viam works with its various SDKs to control devices with peer-to-peer connections around the world.

Slides can be viewed here:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGUNkorRWU/86XFCkAuDHVtmn-7ulxGAg/view

Proof of concept demo code here:

https://github.com/HipsterBrown/webrtc-robot-demo

Happy Building! ๐Ÿค–

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-10-29 at 13:01

Last week I had an incredible time presenting โ€œReal-Time Robot Control from the Browser with WebRTCโ€ at Thunderplains in Oklahoma City. This talk was the opportunity for me to dig into the history of WebRTC, how the underlying technology could be implemented for embedded devices, and how it can be applied to controlling robots!

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-10-24 at 17:26

I will probably wait until this actually starts shipping but Iโ€™m so curious about the JavaScript development experience with this watch. It would be great to see it ship with ECMA-419 APIs ๐Ÿ™ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pocuter/spectra

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-10-23 at 02:51

@jenn after years of visiting the Johnny-Five site, I finally stumbled upon the trick-or-treat image of you when trying to copy the robot image. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-09-20 at 21:19

I really need to run Ethernet directly from my router to my homelab switch and stop relying on powerline ๐Ÿ˜–Just had to reboot the adapter to get my lab back online.

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-08-15 at 14:11

@chriscoyier not sure if anyone has mentioned this since the episode discussing running GitHub Actions locally, but โ€œactโ€ works really well for this: https://github.com/nektos/act

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-08-13 at 19:40

Giving OpenVibe a shot as my cross-posting social app. Once Threads support is added, that basically covers the gamut of where I care to stay engaged. ๐Ÿคž

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-08-12 at 15:38

The upgraded MK4 from Prusa is here: MK4S (for speed)! Better cooling, filament flow speed, and able to print extreme overhangs without supports. ๐Ÿ‘ https://blog.prusa3d.com/the-original-prusa-mk4s-is-here_100605/

I can't wait for the $100 upgrade kit for my MK4 to go on sale in a few weeks. ๐Ÿคž

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-08-10 at 15:24

Itโ€™s really disappointing to see the state of Meetup, post-acquisition by Bending Spoons. Emails now have spammy banner ads at the top like โ€œYou didnโ€™t know about this impossible fact until now!โ€. ๐Ÿ˜‘

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-08-08 at 16:30

So exciting to see Raspberry Pi continue to develop the Pico line with the release of the RP2350 & Pico 2 with more performance, better power management, and optional RISC-V cores!

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-our-new-5-microcontroller-board-on-sale-now/

While it's still years away from mainstream, the release of RISC-V development products from StarFive, Espressif, and Raspberry Pi will certainly help build up software support across the ecosystem. It could overtake ARM in MCUs relatively quickly if these early bets pan out. ๐Ÿค”

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Written by HipsterBrown on 2024-08-07 at 21:10

๐Ÿค” Has open source helped you level up as technical leader?

I'm currently preparing a presentation about how I've observed and applied the practices of maintaining open source projects to the role of staff engineer.

It will mostly be anecdotes from my experiences, but I'd like to hear what other folks have learned as well.

Have you maintained or contributed to an open source project?

Has that affected the way you work?

What projects have you seen demonstrate mature technical leadership?

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