psychomugs
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Comment · 2 years 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/interaction-lab/blossom-public
https://github.com/interaction-lab/BlossomNav
Regarding sourcing the parts, there are online services available to order 3D-printed parts as you would a PCB. The *.stl files are available in the wiki. Though with how accessible 3D printers have become — the well-supported Ender 3 is available for under $100 at Micro Center — you may want to consider taking up printing as a family activity.
Comment · 2 years 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 others have customized with more functionality (e.g. cameras, microphones, screens, control with a phone) for research applications in human-robot interaction (education, telepresence, an assistant for ADHD task-focusing and CBT). We ran ~90 minute bot-building workshops for middle schoolers; they all successfully completed their robots and seemed to enjoy the hands-on experience.
Comment · 3 years 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 roboticists, and is basically a floating head under a fabric exterior. My last research project used the robot as a tabletop motion-controlled telepresence device accessible through a no-downloads mobile browser.
I never had the time to polish the platform so I did a ground-up hardware and software refactor. The hardware was redesigned as an homage to popular snap-fit robot model kits, with runner layouts and instructions ( https://github.com/psychomugs/r0b0/blob/main/docs/assets/bls... ).
I've tried to generalize the software as an `aconnect` for non-robot-specific hardware devices. The software powers this digital back I designed for my >50-year old Leica M2 ( https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/leica-mpi-a-pi-zero-retrofi... ) and enables quick prototyping of physical IO, e.g. using a MIDI keyboard to control motors or a gaming joystick to control a mouse.
It's mostly a passion project to refine the platform into something more usable than how it was left, but I'm open to suggestions or beta testers!
Comment · 3 years 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 roboticists out in the wild.
Comment · 3 years ago
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Comment · 3 years 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.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sounds project-y.
Comment · 3 years ago
> "hell is other people"
Also, from the same author, "heaven is each other."
Comment · 3 years ago
That great guy sounds like a great guy. Wish I knew someone like them.
Comment · 3 years ago
Fish rarely know what water is.
Comment · 3 years 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.edu/chengphotoarth1100f2019/fi...
Comment · 3 years ago
BetterSnapTool is the first thing I install on macOS.