[06] NOW
Now
The current build list — what is running, what is next. Obsessions, experiments, and the next targets, in one place.
[CURRENTLY RUNNING]
low-cost autonomous systems
Autonomy is still priced like a research grant. The interesting work is making it cheap enough to fail in the field — and then run again.
integrated vision/control boards and embedded architecture
The boundary between sensing and control is where the loop actually lives. Who owns the latency decides whether the machine steers on fresh data or stale.
visual navigation without expensive sensing
Cameras are cheap. The expensive part is making them behave like a sensor instead of a firehose. If vision can carry navigation, the whole stack gets cheaper.
AUV robustness on Duburi — the same mission, every time
The benchmark is not a new trick that works once. It is the same mission working every time — in water that does not care how elegant the code looks.
the Unauthorized Engineering collective
Irreverent, open research, practical autonomy — young engineers building unreasonable things. The motto-spirit: whatever we built is better than it was before, far better.
camera pipelines and frame timing
The detector worked; the vehicle didn’t. The problem was frames that were already too old for the controller — stale data steering the robot.
[LIVE PROJECTS]
[ACT IV: NEXT]