"If at first you don't succeed, lower the bar until you do" funnily enough is also the mantra of an unfortunate number of my personal projects. That being said, this is a very cool robot. I am a...
"If at first you don't succeed, lower the bar until you do" funnily enough is also the mantra of an unfortunate number of my personal projects.
That being said, this is a very cool robot. I am a little surprised that the idea of turning the puzzle wrong side up never got mentioned as an alternative to painting it all white didn't get mentioned. It seems like a reasonable way to do a solid color and strikes me as an obvious solution. Maybe it was so that the title could say "all white puzzle"?
I wondered about that, but after seeing the issues with edge smoothness I’m thinking the raw cardboard colour maybe wasn’t uniform enough to work? (But also 100% with you that all white puzzle...
I am a little surprised that the idea of turning the puzzle wrong side up never got mentioned as an alternative to painting it all white didn't get mentioned
I wondered about that, but after seeing the issues with edge smoothness I’m thinking the raw cardboard colour maybe wasn’t uniform enough to work?
(But also 100% with you that all white puzzle makes for a more compelling title!)
He makes a big deal in the prior video about using a bright light for the background of the picture of every piece so that it's high contrast. All that really matters is that it's opaque.
He makes a big deal in the prior video about using a bright light for the background of the picture of every piece so that it's high contrast. All that really matters is that it's opaque.
I kinda want to see a genre of these kinda of videos but where people do learn to do things that a robot would consider to be incredibly hard. (like folding laundry)
I kinda want to see a genre of these kinda of videos but where people do learn to do things that a robot would consider to be incredibly hard. (like folding laundry)
"If at first you don't succeed, lower the bar until you do" funnily enough is also the mantra of an unfortunate number of my personal projects.
That being said, this is a very cool robot. I am a little surprised that the idea of turning the puzzle wrong side up never got mentioned as an alternative to painting it all white didn't get mentioned. It seems like a reasonable way to do a solid color and strikes me as an obvious solution. Maybe it was so that the title could say "all white puzzle"?
I wondered about that, but after seeing the issues with edge smoothness I’m thinking the raw cardboard colour maybe wasn’t uniform enough to work?
(But also 100% with you that all white puzzle makes for a more compelling title!)
My guess would be that raw cardboard doesn't get picked up as well by the suction cup
He makes a big deal in the prior video about using a bright light for the background of the picture of every piece so that it's high contrast. All that really matters is that it's opaque.
I kinda want to see a genre of these kinda of videos but where people do learn to do things that a robot would consider to be incredibly hard. (like folding laundry)