Has anyone seen cool projects with the Naneye cameras? 320x320 60fps in a 1mmx1mm package for <$100. They're disposable surgery parts but also just like, on digikey. Four year old part at this point, where are the cool projects??

Half baked idea of the evening: Signal modernization for rail is a huge pain bc you can’t just rip the whole thing out in favor of centralized control, bc you can never universally trust your datalink to ALL vehicles. How many 9s does starlink have for like 2kbps links?

Look at this freaky little dude. Straight outa The Incredibles lol youtube.com/watch?v=i-__6U…

Anyone know what the actuators in this are? Highly geared tiny motors pulling tendons? Or something more backdrivable?

Either this is a lucky alignment of sunset and faint fog or there’s a supervillain fight happening in downtown Montreal

Kitesurfing has to be the nerdiest extreme sport. I'm talking to myself in this video bc I made a super small change to how I fly the kite when I start a jump and it got me easily 50% higher. Some guy named rob was giving me shit for pulling the bar too fast, he was VERY right.

I want to love Clone bc I’ve been pushing for hydraulic muscle biomimesis-maxxing since ~2015 but it bothers me that they never post good manipulation demos. It really seems like they have some stick-slip-ish problem with their core muscle control that’s deeply compromising

Has anyone noticed their AirPods have bad interference / cutout issues ONLY in Manhattan? I had this issue back in 2019-2020, now I’m in NY with a different iPhone and different AirPods, same problem. Never a hint of trouble any other time. What RF fuckery is this?

Finally tried Apple Vision Pro in store yesterday. Frustratingly on rails demo, wish they’d just leave me w it for 30 mins instead. Scattered thoughts: Hardware is very impressive, almost unnoticeable pass thru. A lot of kinda unforced errors in sw, eg center of rotation for

Nooo Elon don’t make it legible! You’re breaking the incentives!!

I heard an inchoate version of this book at a Byrne Hobart talk via (IIRC) a progress studies meetup right before covid. Beyond hyped to read it longform

There’s room for bold policy here. Commit the US government to buying and freely licensing one of the major cad packages, and make the companies submit blind bids. “We are going to make your product or your competitor’s free. Tell us what you think a fair price is.”