487: Focus on Fizzing
Chris and Elecia chat about simulated robots, portents in the sky, the futility of making plans, and grad school.
A problem with mics led us to delay the show with Shimon Schoken from Nand2Tetris (co-author of Elements of The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles). Look for that later in the year.
Elecia is playing with Webots, a robotics physics simulator. Simpler than ROS’s Gazebo, it also can run in an online mode where you can run it on a browser, selecting between many different robots.
Chris talked about processing his photos of Comet C/2023 A3…
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