My Mitutoyo Absolute calipers are one of my prized possessions, but the case they came in is a blow-molded atrocity. Asides from looking ugly, it also provides no protection to my calipers and takes up an enormous amount of space. I figured it was time to do something about this....
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Wee Rack
Nanometer-scale computing on the centimeter scale
I’ve always wanted to own a server rack, but most racks have a glaring problem. They aren’t cute. I want my server to be cute. Is that too much to ask?
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Painting with Computers
PCIcasso at work
I’ve always loved impressionist paintings, but I don’t think I could make one. My computer might have more artistic talent than I do, though.
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Lazy Ensemble Deep Colorization
Shove in more data, that should work
Image colorization is a fun application of deep learning - but fun doesn’t mean easy. Training examples for image colorization can be made from any RGB image, so data is plentiful. But coloring an image, intuitively, cannot be done without some amount of image classification. We know that a banana...
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3DOF Biomimetic Baseball Pitcher
More athletic than I am
The fastest pitch on record was 105mph. It’s amazing that a human body threw something that quickly - but it’s stranger that the human body did it with a “mechanism” that looks completely unfit for the job. How does a 3DOF arm with high distal mass throw something this quickly?...
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