Links

This page is an experiment in storing web-links longer term and to facilitate sharing.

Algorithms

• Bird’s Eye View Transformation - plotting front-facing camera images into ground surface textures
• footprints - a method for estimating visible and hidden traversable space from images

Datasets

• CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database - dataset of human motion capture
• WebGL BVH Viewer - database and viewer of human motion capture datasets

Devices

• Air Gradient - cost effective and open air quality meter kits

Documents & Reference

• So, You Want to Build a House More Efficiently - information on relative expenses when building homes

Guides

• Guerrilla guide to CNC machining - also includes sections on robotics and mold making
• Screw it, I’ll host it myself - one man’s journey to escaping Google and self-hosting
• Should I Get a House? - calculate whether your financial conditions are right for home ownership
• Which color scale to use when visualizing data - choosing colours when presenting data

Inspirational

• Internal Combustion Engine - amazing example of an informative & interactive website
• The Animal is tired - a touching reflection on how we treat our bodies

Learning & Knowledgebases

• Awesome Robotic Tooling - list of tooling for professional robotic development in C++ and Python
• Awesome - a massive collection of useful projects and information from many disciplines
• The Book of Secret Knowledge - a repository of cheetsheets and helpful resources

Programming

• Best Practices Around Production Ready Web Apps with Docker Compose
• Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet - cheatsheet of standard Python functions
• Functools - The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python - really useful library to extend functions
• Threads in ROS and Python - good reference for how threads are used in ROS

News & Current Events

• Hackernews - technology news (where a lot of the content listed on this page was found)
• Wikipedia - Current events - non-sensationalised news from around the world

Phones

• Punkt MP02 - a minimalist dumb-phone with ability to call and message using the Signal protocol
• Mudita Pure - open-source, minimalist, e-ink, minimalist dumb-phone
• Librem 5 - open-source debian based smart-phone
• Fairphone - a repairable, android-based, smart-phone with access to spare parts.

Software

• sent - Simple plaintext presentation tool
• Simple Analytics - a nice looking alternative to Google Analytics

Tools

• Youtube Downloader - site for downloading YouTube videos in a variety of formats (including MP3)

Design

• Carbon - Create and share images of source code
• Coolors - Colour palette generator
• Dafont - Selection of fonts
• FreePick - High-quality photos, videos, vectors, PSD, AI images, icons…
• Noun Project - Icons and photos for everything
• Sorted Colors - a website for finding HTML colour names
• uiGradients - Colour gradient generator