Kai Goodall

@sologrants @uwaterloo @bagelfund

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

got a @sologrants for Deadlink 🚁

@getdeadlink lets one person run a whole team of drones on a search at once. the hard part is when one drops mid-mission, so i built it to catch that, hand the drone's area to another one, and finish the search with a record of what got covered.

works in simulation. this grant puts it on real hardware, where motors actually fail and gps actually drifts.

no equity, no strings. thank you @sologrants @mcmgoodall @julianweisser @aridutilh for betting on it.

next: one real fleet, one dropped drone, and the search still finishes!

[Kai Goodall @mcmgoodall]

@julianweisser 🚀

[Kai Goodall @mcmgoodall]

Yesterday, we launched Solo Grants to fund the world’s most ambitious passion projects.

In the past 24 hours alone, we've received 300+ applications.

Apply now for up to $1000 https://t.co/fS2HL5qEdD

[Kai Goodall @mcmgoodall]

@aridutilh All of the applications I've seen so far are dope, can't wait to read the rest

[Kai Goodall @mcmgoodall]

@Neesh774 YESSIR

[ari dutilh @aridutilh]

The world is made of passion projects.

We're supporting more of them.

Up to $1K grants, no strings attached, for people building ambitious projects solo.

Apply @sologrants

[Kai Goodall @mcmgoodall]

@m1guelpf bro how are you this cracked

[Andrey @Spirit532_]

Small announcement: I received the Merge/Solo grant(@mergedotclub), supporting my project to make affordable scanning electron microscopes, accompanied by a slew of other scientific equipment. And a sneak peek of what's next :)
Thanks to @mcmgoodall @julianweisser @aridutilh!

[Wiktoria @wiktoriapawlak_]

1) Built CellLens after getting tired of patching #microscopy repos for #cardiomyocyte videos.

Hybrid: optical flow + #VLM

So far:
• 0.03 BPM avg error
• 100% beat detection on 236 #hiPSC-CM videos
• Works on #fluorescence too

Looking for early testers DM me!
@mergedotclub

[ana howard @AnaArsonist]

i hope i consume enough microplastics so when it's my time they can recycle me into several credit cards

[Chloe Nguyen ⁂ @chloe_h_nguyen]

I (w/@Tristan_J_Hall) built a <$900 treadmill that lets you walk in any direction in VR. The closest alternatives with similar functionality cost $40,000. Ours works and it's kind of awesome??

About 1.5 weeks ago, we demoed it @socraticainfo's Symposium! Here's the full story of how it came to be…

[Kai Goodall @mcmgoodall]

Insane project demo from @chloe_h_nguyen and @Tristan_J_Hall at @socraticainfo Symposium.

It felt like I was just walking around in VR. Genuine magic.

So glad we got to support such a dope project through @mergedotclub.

[Chloe Nguyen ⁂ @chloe_h_nguyen]

This week has been pretty hectic... I went from 𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 to a working build and received a grant from @mergedotclub— all in 6 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠.

This was the timeline...

[Kai Goodall @mcmgoodall]

@julianweisser @pk_iv @browserbase Finally found the perfect thing to watch with my lunch

[Kai Goodall @mcmgoodall]

@1llegalEngineer This is so cool

[Kai Goodall @mcmgoodall]

@AnaArsonist Whoever made this 404 is an incredible designer

[Nitish Manocha @NitishManocha1]

Last week, I tested the first ROV prototype for @Stellamatics. This was the first half of my Proof of Concept for autonomous ship propeller cleaning.

A lot worked:
- Basic underwater mobility (forward/back/turn/dive)
- Live camera feed over a long tether
- Control system held up better than I expected

And a lot didn’t (which was the point for this demo):
- Waterproofing failure after a few minutes
- Motors are underpowered due to current limits
- Buoyancy control needs to be active, not manual
- Camera clarity and lighting in murky water need a big upgrade

I've built a lot of dry robots, but this was my first time building an underwater robot.
The biggest win here was the data. Every failure has given me a clear design direction for V2. Better sealing, higher thrust, active buoyancy control, and more sensing.

Next up, I'm building and testing the cleaning/polishing module, which is the core of what this robot is meant to do - clean and polish ship propellers.

Back to work now!

https://t.co/1wTw2q25KF

[Neesh 🥭 @Neesh774]

turn that "i told you so" into 20 bucks

introducing Wager • prediction markets with your friends

[jack lafond @1afond]

I found an API vulnerability that lets me scrape hundreds of thousands of parking tickets across 1,300+ US cities - and then put them all on a map. https://t.co/JRaPlpDsAJ

(You can even pay someone's ticket for them!)

[Kai Goodall @mcmgoodall]

@Neesh774 @Polymarket It's not gambling anymore, now it's just supporting the homies

[AthenaBIO 🧬🪩 @athenabiorg]

AthenaDAO featured in @TIME Magazine’s Longevity Issue

We are honored our novel funding mechanism supporting ovarian aging research and women’s longevity is part of this story

It is a watershed moment as some of the research we funded is moving to next stages of R&amp;D

READ 👇