As a longtime Dynamixel user I agree the U2D2 adapter is pricey in comparison to other options, but I would like some quantification of the “latency is very high” claim. I have always found it to be a sure bet for low latency (~1ms) across a wide variety of platforms.
Probably less common, but I write a lot of JS code interfacing with devices over serial connections. This makes Buffer's convenience methods for encoding and decoding data types in both big and little endian ordering really useful to me.
It looks like I could accomplish the same thing using a DataView of an ArrayBuffer, but I don't see enough of a benefit to justify converting everything to this approach.
Anecdotal, but the generic (Alvogen) I've received the past few times for the IR version has felt much stronger and has ultimately led to me adjusting to about half my prescribed dose.
I've taken the same dose produced by many different manufacturers for ~10 years and this is the first time I have noticed such a big difference. So far I haven't been able to find any other confounding factor that would account for the change in effect.
This really resonates with me. I recently traveled to an international conference and I am almost certain I spent more time jumping through the hoops of Concur and our university’s bizarre policies than I did presenting and attending the conference.
The worst part is the trip was significantly more expensive than it needed to be because of the constraints imposed by the system.
Several years ago I advocated transitioning our academic robotics research lab to using Fusion 360 as our default for design. I regret that choice more and more with every decision like this. We are rarely affected by these changes on our academic license, but I hate to see students invest in a tool that may suddenly become unreasonable to continue using later.
During my PhD, the lab invested a lot of software development effort into a closed-source robotics platform that was discontinued [1]. I will try hard to avoid closed platforms in the future.
As academics, I feel we should put in our best effort to use and contribute back to open-source platforms. It's not crazy to spend the first year of your PhD adding a feature to an open-source package if it will boost your research productivity for the next 4 years. It's also easier to work around limitations when you only need to run one experiment instead of producing a robust product.
[1] Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight, a RPi-sized board with onboard stereo cameras and GPS. The hardware was unbeatable at the time.
Would really like to know more about the implementation here.
While I personally am not a user or fan of Google location history, I know people who have jobs that involve a lot of travel between medical facilities that find Google location history to be a good mechanism to verify their activities for billing appropriate accounts. Will there be a way to opt out?
My printing journey started with a FlashForge Creator Pro that has dual extruders and an enclosed build area. It was easy to use and worked well for ABS, but has essentially been idle since getting an MK3 a couple of years ago. I’ve had really good results printing ABS and ASA using the MK3 in a simple enclosure tent (Creality branded and like $80 on Amazon). We print a lot of ASA so I do want to move the MK3’s power supply out of the enclosure, but it’s such a great machine I’ve struggled to find something new that seems worth the purchase.
Fellow Aggie here! I graduated with a CS degree nearly 10 years ago, but I feel like earIy on I had similar experiences to what you’ve described.
For me the landscape and huge size of different orgs at TAMU was also somewhat intimidating. I did push myself to join a couple of service oriented groups and had a great time but didn’t make close friends (which is fine). I ended up getting involved in research and became close friends with many of my lab mates. There are many great CS research labs that are welcoming to undergrads just starting if you have interests in that.
For me I also found (perhaps too late in my studies) that taking classes in other areas that interested me (social sciences, psych for me) was a great way to meet entirely different groups of people without a lot of the effort of joining an org.
I hope something in here is helpful! Although I was definitely a 2%er with respect to school spirit, I greatly enjoyed my time at A&M and hope you will too.
What are the chances this is the same person that allegedly secretly recorded a customer showering when acting as a Geek Squad technician in 2007? [1]
It appears they have the same name and the age reported is consistent with 14 year gap. Not sure what the probability of that happening coincidentally is.
