Omni-directional machines in action! 🎡
These robots made with the LEGO Group brick can move smoothly in any direction, and rotate in place.
That makes very precise motion control for both manual driving and autonomous behaviors.
This particular omni-directional vehicle system is a fan-made LEGO® MOC (My Own Creation), built entirely from LEGO bricks.
It includes custom omni-directional vehicles along with dedicated floor plates designed to support accurate motion.
That's a proper project for robotics people!
Let's build more in 2026.
Creator's page: https://t.co/wrbwrm7xCk
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🚀 Microdispensing at the picoliter scale is redefining precision in science — enabling ultra-accurate droplet placement for biotech, diagnostics & electronics.
A raindrop 🌧️ ≈ 50 µL — that’s 50 million× larger than a picoliter!
🔗: https://t.co/xC9NnCU2Xi
How do we define the value of creative effort during a time when “effortless creative” is becoming the norm? I think we need to appreciate the slow marination of ideas that become subject to many random forces.
New longform @inkandswitch essay! 📜
Malleable Software
by me, Josh Horowitz, @pvh and Todd Matthews.
https://t.co/3Xhk888Uuh
It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.
Here's the quick tl;dr... 1/
What if you could make physics diagrams come alive? At #UIST2024, we will be presenting our paper, Augmented Physics, an ML-Integrated Authoring Tool for Creating Interactive Physics Simulations from Static Diagrams
Co-authors: @Freya_Wyy@nandizhang_ Jarin @rubaiat@ryosuzk
South African cellist Abel Seraokoh, known for blending African traditional music with classical elements, performs his piece "Ka Bohaleng" alongside the chamber ensemble Manchester Collective.
A small request: If you think this work is interesting, consider sharing it with someone you know who is "not a computer person". https://t.co/uAg40FbcFM
@stevenstrogatz When we do math, we play the “Truth Game”: we make *as if* words had a stable meaning, statements had an absolute truth value and we could infer new valid statements from existing ones by pure logical deduction, without any empirical evidence.
@stevenstrogatz What does it mean in practice? You can’t define math if you don’t recognize that cognition is a dynamic learning process.
Math is a particular way of orchestrating the interplay between language and intuition.
A rainy day in Brooklyn led to a new project.
An AR pinout overlay using the Metro M7 board from Adafruit. This was built in SwiftUI and UIViewRepresentable to merge UIKit views. It tracks well if I say so myself!