New year, new goals… I have struggled to set and achieve goals in the past. About 18 months ago a colleague introduced me to Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Planner. It was exactly what I needed to set goals and make progress; it has made an enormous difference in my life. In developing the perfect week, …
Principles
My Principles, somewhat inspired by Ray Dalio and Peter Diamandis: Ask first “What do you want?”, Then, “What is True?”, THEN “What are you going to do about it?” Focus on what won’t change Spend 80% of the time on the problem Use First Principles Collect information (ask questions), THEN decide. If seemingly given a …
Reinforcement Learning and Bipeds
Traditional matrices and path planning have stuck me with opportunity when considering biped motion. I recently found a great tutorial with Matlab, reinforcement learning, and trying to teach a biped to walk: https://www.mathworks.com/help/reinforcement-learning/ug/train-biped-robot-to-walk-using-reinforcement-learning-agents.html In my own biped design(BASE3), I have been considering an inverted knee design like an Emu (https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/downloads/g445cj94b, http://ames.caltech.edu/reher2019dynamic.pdf) for energy efficiency. To …
Project Free Time
This is a work in progress. What is the dollar savings per hour, by using Prime? Is it more or less then income per hour? I.e. what is the opportunity cost. Notes* Cost – per day in USD*****Time Savings – per day in minutes
Word Count From Most Popular Arduino Projects
The following is a word count from some of the most popular Arduino projects. As Control, Smart, Sensor, and IoT are quite high on the list we may surmise smart home projects are quite popular.