| ▲ | Show HN: Rebuild of Blossom, an open-source social robot(msgtn.xyz) | |
| 58 points by psychomugs 5 days ago | 4 comments | ||
From the post: Blossom is an open-source robot platform for human-robot interaction (HRI) research that I developed during my PhD. I’ve used Blossom for research in design, machine learning, and telepresence; others have made Blossoms for their own research purposes. I have continued working on “rebuilding” the entire platform: I redesigned the inner frame as a model kit, complete with Gunpla-inspired runners and instructions, and refactored the codebase as r0b0, a Python library for communicating between hardware peripherals and software applications. In preparation to present Blossom at Maker Faire Coney Island, I refined the telepresence interface and enabled conversational interaction with a language model. The new repository is available on GitHub and includes documentation for construction. | ||
| ▲ | skakar 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
This is unrelated but I'm going to take inspiration from your Evangelion-themed project and personal website aesthetic! | ||
| ▲ | brian-armstrong 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
This is such a cool project. The instruction manual was quite exciting to see. Nicely written post. | ||
| ▲ | aspenmayer 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I really like the design of the robot. It’s very expressive and cute! | ||
| ▲ | gtirloni 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Newly created domain + .xyz TLD is not a good combo for launching a project (wrt blocklists) | ||