nhnifong

We should seriously have a tool that a tool-changing 3D printer can use to do this.

There are solutions to this that have been high priority since the beginning. My wife and I live with several of them. It hangs on a parking hook when not in use, which keep the strings out of the way, and if necessary they can be quickly disconnected with small carabiners. But your idea, if I understand it correctly, is a parked configuration where no line diagonally crosses the room. Seems doable but I question the tradeoff. An improvement in aesthetics for an increase in complexity. So far I don't think any of my customers care what it looks like. I initially thought they would, but I've been wrong so far.

I shouldn't discourage any application of my own product, but I really think rovers are the ideal platform for outdoor robots. CDPRs are great inside rooms where the structure they hang from already exists, but in outdoor areas, you'd probably have to erect some or all of the corner points.

Greenhouses however are an environment I think is very promising, as long as I can find a farmer who isn't going broke and wants to let me try it. The pitch is that when nobody needs to navigate the floor, it can be filled 100% with product.

I did consider it, and it was the designed used in the previous version, but I moved away from that because I wanted rigidity around the z axis. the uncontrolled swinging was too hard to compensate for. additionally, now that it can push off the cross where the lines meet, it has a wrist dof that greatly helps in grasping.

I'm come a long way on that, and the old overhead video on the site was several months old. But there's a new one up now showcasing the lastest movement.

Honestly yes. Everything is already too safe.

There is a tension limit of 28 newtons on any single line. Beyond that, the motors release with a damped motion. This can be lowered, at the expense of payload capacity.

Hi there, I'm Nathaniel, the creator of this robot. Thanks for posting it :) If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Can it kill you? no probably not. The tension limit kicks in and lets the line out if you pull too hard.

Will it work in a room with a ceiling fan? usually its fine since you can lower the work area ceiling to exclude the fan.

Will it make my kids learn to not pick up after themselves? They never will anyways.

You write like lawyer, leaving me convinced that you stand nacently on both sides of every junction of opinions regarding this issue, except this one:

If the Internet existed to serve some obvious goal, it would be trivial to determine whether prioritizing packets would help or hinder its achievement, but as far as I can tell, It does not exist to accomplish any obvious goal. The net neutrality debate is essentially the Internet's own existential conflict.

Part of the supporting argument in favor of net neutrality says that prioritizing packets would not be wise because we cannot predict what the Internet will be used for in the future, and that those packet prioritization rules will inevitably end up in conflict with the goals of future internet users. (eg. The I. doesn't know what it want's to be when it grows up. boo hoo)

Ironically (is it?) the very act of prioritizing communications in any way, would set the I. on a one way path towards serving a particular purpose, settling the issue of whether it should have done so in the first place. (eg. The I. wants to be a good targeted advertising delivery system, nothing else.)

So what is at stake for the Internet is that same thing that is at stake when a conscious person has a mental breakdown over the purpose of their life.

The sum of all human knowledge probably looks more like a million dimensional koosh ball than an circle.

"this is like fricking socialist crap y does everything have to be regulated how much will this cost us in taxes "

Are you this guy?

Here's a prediction by a pundit for you: When intelligence becomes cool, it will have no more time to work on it's hobbies. Solve that problem Google.

I know that nuclear fuel must be a precious resource, and to see that we wasted so much of it during those years is unsettling. We could have set that fuel aside to power civilization for centuries. Might we be able to recover any valuable radioactive material from the test sites? Since most of the warheads were detonated at just a few sites, there might be high concentrations.

Transmit the data with a laser to a mirror 25 light years away.

My policy for this is to simply lock the doors and hide for an hour if my network traffic averages over 2 Mbps for 5 minutes. I would also send myself an email. So far this has never happened.