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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3LB Beetleweight Battlebot
CNC'd Unibody Battlebot in 2 Days
The goal of this robot was to see how effective a unibody CNC’d frame would be on a battlebot. Most frames seem to break at the joints, so removing joints should theoretically make for a stronger battlebot. The second, hidden goal was to see how “easily” a CNC’d robot could...
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