msadowski

I run a robotics newsletter: https://weeklyrobotics.com/

I’ve occasionally posted some issues on hn and /r/robotics. Every week I share the issues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. From these LinkedIn seems to have brought the most interactions so far.

On a couple of occasions I traded shout outs with some newsletters and I think this was the most effective method for obtaining new subscribers.

3 years ago I started a newsletter about robotics (https://weeklyrobotics.com/) and about month ago I opened it to advertisers and started earning about $600 a month from ads.

What kind of robots are you interested in? Or is it just about the framework? I’ve been working as a ROS consultant for over 3 years now but never properly considered tutoring.

You can check out my blog (https://msadowski.github.io/) and if my experience seems relevant then feel free to reach out through email (you will find it on my profile on HN) to see if we can make it work.

This story reminded me of a case of a 25 tonne deep sea mining robot that got detached at a depth of 4km: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/mining-robot-st... . I can't imagine how stressful this must have been for everyone involved. Fortunately the robot was recovered shortly after this incident.

I don’t have any in my RSS feed, but if you were to search for them I would try finding some describing iRobot Root or Mindstorm projects.

If videos could do then perhaps the Brick Experiments Channel could have something interesting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHHErfX9hI

Here are some that I've been following why working on my newsletter (https://weeklyrobotics.com/). These will be mostly robotics oriented, and some of them might be inactive:

* [Robots&Chisel](http://www.robotandchisel.com/blog/) - a blog by Michael Ferguson, he did a very nice series of posts on restoring a UBR-1 robot and implementing ROS-2 on it

* [Mike Isted](https://mikeisted.wordpress.com/) - at one point Mike was writing quite many blog posts on making drones, including some offboard control and autonomy

* [The Interrupt](https://interrupt.memfault.com/) - in-depth blog about embedded programming. Really like their monthly "What we've been reading..." series

* [Electron Dust](https://www.electrondust.com/) - inactive, but a really cool series of blog post on making a ball bouncing robot

* [Casey Handmer blog](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/) - some very in-depth articles related to space

* [Modicum of Fun](https://jpieper.com/) - a blog post of Josh Pieper, who makes mjbots open-source motor controller

Other:

* [Julia's Drawings](https://drawings.jvns.ca/) - neat presentation of various technical concepts in programming. Unfortunately it's not active anymore.

I think they were considered a moonshot project? That’s probably one way you can justify a massive funding.

I really enjoyed the documentary about their work: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_hEja6bzE

I highly recommend Pulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani [Feature Film] available on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_hEja6bzE .

Feel free to use the e-mail from my profile: mat@msadowski.ch. Thanks!

Is it for an R/C car or something different? I’ve found out that RTAB-MAP works quite nicely, but whether it would be useful for you depends on many factors.

SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote

Hi,

I’m looking for a freelancer that could help me take my newsletter [0] to the next level. Currently the website is done using jekyll and I’d like to start looking into making the design cleaner and start automatically generating e-mails when a new issue is ready. I could also use help with creating a neat e-mail template for everything.

[0] https://weeklyrobotics.com/

Hi HN!

Since my last post [0] describing my experience working as a robotics consultant gathered some attention last year, I figured there might be some interesting discussion that can happen this year too around the topic. Happy to answer any thoughts you might have, and as always I will appreciate any feedback!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24280204

I see the form is closed now, but if you are up for a challenge: I maintain a robotics newsletter and subscribe to around 150 different sources. If you are able to find me quality articles or projects I would not find otherwise I’d be more than happy to give you a shoutout in the newsletter.

Just recently, when looking for material for my robotics newsletter, I came across this magazine from 1980s and the issue I’ve read was still surprisingly relevant. I thought it might interest the community here

I think it's worth experimenting quite a bit to try to see what time works for you to exercise. For me early morning works best as there are no unplanned meetings etc. and I can easily do it 3 times a week.

Also as someone mentioned already in the comments C25K programme might be a good start for running as it mixes walking and running until you build up strength and stamina to run 5k.

Good luck!

Product Hunt?

It’s quite simple with ROS - you open a bagfile or connect to ROS, select the topics of interest and then you can plot the values.

An example of the top of my head for debugging: the robot I was working with was not very eager to turn on the spot, by plotting commanded angular velocity vs angular speed from wheel odometry I was able to see that commanded velocity was fine and the issue was on the motor controller level.

I've been using PlotJuggler for a good couple of years now and it's one of the go to tools for debugging robotics systems for me. I'm sure it had saved me a good couple of days of my life!

As a fellow newsletter maintainer (https://weeklyrobotics.com/) I can only imagine how much efforts it takes to put something out 4 times a week.

Is your workflow automated in any way? I would appreciate any tips you might have!

I would go with “Dni których jeszcze nie znamy” by Marek Grechuta: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6pEolAKm8

Thanks for sharing these! As someone who had been working on a newsletter for over 2 years with no time to look into styling at all these seems very useful :). I'll definitely give them a shot at one point!

I’m not involved in any hiring at the moment but feel free to send me your CV with identifiable information redacted and I’ll provide you with some honest feedback. You’ll find my email in my profile

Not strictly what you are looking for but I can recommend the Orbital Index Newsletter (https://orbitalindex.com/). You might find some interesting projects in their awesome space repo: https://github.com/orbitalindex/awesome-space

It bothers me that not many people talk about this. The future in which the drone buzz above your head all the time is something I wouldn’t be enjoying. Hope these things don’t catch on.

That’s amazing, thanks for sharing. I’ll definitely feature it in Weekly Robotics!

I've just spend good 15 minutes on it and in case of France it seems far from trivial. It doesn't look like it's a matter of sending a single e-mail.

I don't really have a portfolio but you can get some idea on the things I have worked with by scrolling through my blog: https://msadowski.github.io/.

A portfolio would be a good thing to have, though, thanks for the suggestion!

I do about 4-6 hours of research every week, mostly while working on my newsletter: https://weeklyrobotics.com/

In case of the occlusion - with rtk gps setup you know how good is the quality of your signal and then you can adjust some of your parameters to trust gps less when doing sensor fusion.