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Mark and Joel Make Autonomous Drones in Their Spare Time (Video)
Mark F. Brown and Joel Rozenweig build autonomous drones; that is, drones that don't need an operator every second. You tell the autonomous drone, "Pick up package # 941A at the loading dock and deliver it to 451 Bradbury St.' and off it goes. It's going to be a while yet before that happens, but one day....
Back in the present, dronemaking is still a hobby for Mark and Joel, something they do for fun after spending their workdays as software engineers at Intel. Joel says there is 'remarkably little' crossover between their jobs and their hobby, and that (so far) Intel has contributed little beyond some Edison modules (which you can buy for less than $50) and travel to the Embedded Linux Conference, where they gave a talk accompanied by these slides. NOTE: We have a little bonus for you today. We try to keep videos to 10 minutes or less, but we have no such constraints on transcript length. So if you want the 'full' version of this interview, please read the transcript.
Back in the present, dronemaking is still a hobby for Mark and Joel, something they do for fun after spending their workdays as software engineers at Intel. Joel says there is 'remarkably little' crossover between their jobs and their hobby, and that (so far) Intel has contributed little beyond some Edison modules (which you can buy for less than $50) and travel to the Embedded Linux Conference, where they gave a talk accompanied by these slides. NOTE: We have a little bonus for you today. We try to keep videos to 10 minutes or less, but we have no such constraints on transcript length. So if you want the 'full' version of this interview, please read the transcript.
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Troll in this case = "brought up a point the slashdot editors don't have an easy answer for". You know, the minimal rock-bottom standard for journalistic integrity is to disclose any financial relationships between the publishing site and the subjects of the story.
That's if they continue to insist on referring to themselves as "editors" anyways. Perhaps "firehose jockeys" would be a more appropriate term? After all, editors actually, you know, copy edit, correcting obvious spelling and grammatical errors using the command of the English language that an actual editor is expected to have as a minimum standard of competence. Why, they often even perform the most basic fact-checking before putting something before a large audience! Oh and they don't use their infinite mod points to cover up anyone who questions the shitty job they constantly do or the possible financial motivations for why certain otherwise uninteresting -- and hardly novel -- posts make it to the front page while others don't.