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robotont

Link: robotont: "What is Robotont? Robotont is open-source platform for robotics education and research. It is an omnidirectional mobile robot with ROS (Robot Operating System) support. Development of robotont is coordinated by the Institute of Technology, University of Tartu."

And yet another open source ROS robot kit from another university. It seems that everyone is designing a new robot model for their purposes. I wonder whether it's worth our while to be doing our own as well at Brandeis.

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PhysicalBits · A web-based programming environment for educational robotics that supports live coding and a...

Link: PhysicalBits · A web-based programming environment for educational robotics that supports live coding and a...: "Physical Bits (formerly known as UziScript) is the only web-based programming environment for educational robotics that supports live coding and au..."

i saw this at a conference. it's a very nice tool and I think it's been used for real teaching applications

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Teachable Machine

Link: Teachable Machine: "Train a computer to recognize your own images, sounds, & poses. A fast, easy way to create machine learning models for your sites, apps, and more – no expertise or coding required."

A web based tool, free to use, designed for education and teaching. Not heavy duty for professional use.

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6.3. Configuring Host Names Using hostnamectl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat Customer Portal

Link: 6.3. Configuring Host Names Using hostnamectl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat Customer Portal: "Access Red Hat’s knowledge, guidance, and support through your subscription."

Filed under: everything is more complicated than you think. I used to think I knew how to change the hostname of my robot. Well not so fast. Apparently there are various tools and daemons who make it their business to "reverse" certain changes that for some reason they deem necessary. Or something.

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Contribute

Link: Contribute: "The Wiki for Robot Builders."

Very comprehensive collection of notes useful robotics. But caveat - I haven't quality controlled it. It looks good though.

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Creating PDFs with Python and ReportLab's Canvas (Part I)

Link: Creating PDFs with Python and ReportLab's Canvas (Part I): "ReportLab is a very powerful library. With a little effort, you can make pretty much any layout that you can think of. I have used it to replicate many complex page layouts over the years. In this tutorial, you will be learning how to use ReportLab’s"

Always useful to know how to generate pdfs! The thought in my head: I still like Ruby a little better as a language. But Python shares with Ruby that it has a. absolutely huge ecosystem of useful packages.