Tag: Pocket

Internal Combustion Engine – Bartosz Ciechanowski

The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air. Despite their omnipresence in modern day, the operation of an engine may be cryptic. Read more

TagSLAM is a ROS based package for simultaneous multi-camera localization and mapping (SLAM) with the popular AprilTags. In essence TagSLAM is a front-end to the GTSAM optimizer which makes it easy to use AprilTags for visual SLAM. For more technical details, have a look at this draft paper. Read more

Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas

There’s no “One Right Way” to evaluate a business idea; it’s a very personal process. Everyone has different requirements and priorities that they have to balance, and what might be an amazing idea for one person sounds like a terrible idea for another. Read more

John Siracusa

On @atpfm 431 we discussed the latest ARM-based Mac Pro rumors. Keeping in mind that Apple’s marketing diagram of the M1 SoC does NOT accurately represent the floor plan of the chip, I nevertheless thought it would be fun to extrapolate from it to the rumored Mac Pro power plant. Read more

How Pfizer Makes Its Covid-19 Vaccine

Inside this facility in Chesterfield, Missouri, trillions of bacteria are producing tiny loops of DNA containing coronavirus genes — the raw material for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Read more

写House3D渲染的时候踩过的坑

House3D 是一个用于research的交互式3D环境. 用户可以载入一个来自SUNCG数据集的房子的模型,然后在里面走来走去,并获得first-person view的图片输入. 我写了House3D的渲染代码,过程中踩到了不少神奇的坑,坑踩的多了就觉得干脆记下来吧. Read more

OpenPano: How to write a Panorama Stitcher

This is a summary of the algorithms I used to write OpenPano: an open source panorama stitcher. You can find the source code on github. Lowe’s SIFT [1] algorithm is implemented in feature/. The procedure of the algorithm and some results are briefly described in this section. Read more