I am an engineer by trade and as of late I have become a bit overwhelmed on the MRL site. Technology is starting to overtake me. Many of you are lite years ahead of me in the latest technoglogy all I ask is please keep up on the documentation which allows me to get up to speed at my own pace, I do have to maintain my real world job in coalition with my InMoov  addiction which I am fully embedded in. I just dont want to get left completely behind. InMoov Rob and his dad needs all the information that this great community has to offer and I dont want to miss any of it. It's just so much happens day to day with my work work job and life in general I don't want to fall behind. 

Keep it coming folks I love the tech just don't evolve too quickly and leave us laymen behind.

 

Alessandruino

10 years 4 months ago

Ehi dwilli :) just tell me what you need as documentation... I m here for you ;)

Alessandruino

10 years 4 months ago

And hey, don t worry :) i m behind of you with InMoov... I still have to complete it ;) just send a bat-signal and i LL come to help my friend

wvantoorn

10 years 4 months ago

Dwilly, dont worry, im just like you, and it seems a bit much. But reality is that there are some other projects going at the same time. like the pingdar and so on.

Im at the same level as you are, and still working to learn python, and i just go my own pace. I try to do what i think i want, wrote down what i want my inmoov to do, and when i have questions, Grog, Ale and al others help us in any way they can. What i do agree is that the documentation is falling behind on what we have and that makes it a bit confusing.

Maybe we should make tutorials with the stuff we know, put them in a section tutorials, and then it is a bit easier to follow.

There has been written tons of tuts already, if only we could place them in a section of its own and maybe rewrite some stuff with pictures and video's.....

But i guess our elves have to decide if that could be done.

And dwilly, dont worry, as our own Yoda Grog said, one for all and all for one

hairygael

10 years 4 months ago

No worry, I feel exactly the same. In fact everytime my InMoov doesn't work correctly at start, I always feel like something might have been change within the service without my knowledge.

But you are correct the best way is to keep tutos and posts updated because the shoutbox conversations just vanish on the infinite web.

I feel exactly the same. In fact everytime my InMoov doesn't work correctly at start, I always feel like something might have been change within the service without my knowledge.

Heh, yah I borked it again :)

GroG

10 years 4 months ago

Dwilli !
 
I have been thinking alot about this as well.
 
Growing can be difficult and even painful sometimes.  But without growth we would be stuck with a bunch of finger-starter kits :)
 
One thing I absolutely positively agree with you is "documentation, documentation, documentation".  It takes a substantial amount of time to make "quality" documentation.
 
In software - documentation often determines weather a project lives or dies.  Even if the software is designed very well, without good documentation, no one will know how to use it, or what it can be used for.  The quality of documentation directly corresponds to the success of a project.  Poor documentation can be much worse than no documentation. I mean, what if your told to do something incorrectly, versus just left to figure it out on your own? Who would be more frustrated?
 
Robotics especially is this way, in that it potentially incorporates so much information from so many different fields (Software, Electronics, Mechanics, Physics, Chemestry, Psychology)
 
I appreciate you speaking up about your concern, 
 
As a model of documentation I have come to appreciate the "Processing" site.  It has a nice big menu of small yet effective demonstrations.  Each gives you a working cause ---> effect .. this method allows us to rapidly learn.  We start with a simple demo, and then we add some small change to it.  (As an example this is what Adolph is doing - from not programming at all he has begun modifying scripts now to get his mini-bot gestures and starting steps)
 
I would like to do the same .. and have mentioned it several times, but have not done it .. nor would I be capable of doing it myself
 
Even though we are learning and have advanced.. it's important to ask .. "What would have helped me get to where I am now.. and how can I make that for someone else"
 
In regards to different technologies.. Pingdar, FPGAs, graphene,  etc  InMoov may not immediately benefit from some of these things, but in the long term, its like a bigger box of legos.
The more diversity and the more legos you have to choose from, the more exciting things you can build.  Pingdar supports localized mapping (like mini radar) - so I'm sure you can already think of some applications where this would be beneficial to InMoov
 
Although new technology is like strange magic - its only that way because we don't understand it and its not helpful only because we don't know how to use it.  These things may become critical parts of InMoov going forward.. I know it can be difficult riding the BIG WAVE of information.. but here is a nice surfing school
if you feel like your going to whipe out.. just relax .. take a minute.. maybe chill on the beach and wax your board..  show others the best surfing wax :)  you don't need to be riding waves all the time. Nobody is leaving you behind.. we all eat on the beach. :)
 
 

wvantoorn

10 years 4 months ago

Sorry only water and tea for me, i dont do food... But hey, im IN!! sitting besides the fire, inmoov playing his guitar, other inmoovs bbqing our food, rod stuart inmoov singing songs, markus his inmoov is grumpy and sitting in a corner saying that he heard him.

One system to rule them all, and all robots go for 1 system.

Can you feel the Force? well? Can you??