Chetan Sharma

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. [Read More]

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... [Read More]

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?... [Read More]

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... [Read More]

Cats follow lasers. Lasers can be aimed by computers. Computers can run YOLO. YOLO can detect cats. We now have a beautiful hackathon project. [Read More]