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Cardinal rule of branding. Exposure is the name of the game. The more eyeballs see your thing, the better. As long as it’s not adjacent to bad things.

This could end really well, or really, badly, extremely not.

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I looked into CubeSats in a previous job. Basically, there are four questions:

• What’s the purpose?
• How to design and build one?
• How to launch it?
• How to collect the data?

Part 1: this is the back of the napkin sketch. What are you trying to do? Weather, water, fire, radiation, or air data? Imaging? Has anyone already done this? What’s the plan?

Part 2: you can DIY the whole thing, starting with the CalPoly CubeSat workshops: https://www.cubesat.org/. They’re the folks that started the whole thing.

There are also kits and services out there. One example is Pumpkin: https://www.pumpkinspace.com/, but there are a lot of others like it out there. You want to figure out what sensors you need, mechanisms to orient the sensors, radios, power management, etc. Also, what’s the lifespan before it descends into the atmosphere and burns out.

Part 3: The big problem is launch. You need to eventually get it up into space. There are commercial services, but you’re looking at $10K-$50K and up to get into the queue. Another option is to go through NASA’s Launch Intitiative: https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy/launch-services-program/cubesat-launch-initiative/ or ESA’s Fly Your Satellite program: https://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite

These require being part of a non-profit or educational institution. And the waiting list is long. Like, years.

Part 4: OK, now that you got it up in space, what do you do with the data? It’s circling the globe and there’s a narrow window where the radio can connect to an earth station, send the data, and maybe receive instructions like where to point the sensors. Forget about OTA. You won’t have a large enough connection window or bandwidth to do that.

You can roll your own comms, or you can see about using an existing service, like AWS Ground Station: https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/. Microsoft had a similar service called Azure Orbital, but they retired it last year.

After all is said and done, you now have some cool data. You’ll want to process it and use it for something. This goes back to step 1. Figure out what’s the purpose, what you want to get out of it, and work backward. You can use the AWS service, pipe it into an S3 bucket or store it in a database, then run analytics and visualizations on it. If you want realtime, it’ll cost extra.

It won’t be cheap, but it will likely be a lot of fun. I proposed several projects in a past life. We got pretty far, but the launch window was years away and by then I was heading out. All this is an infodump of what I learned back then. Hope this helps.

For a second I thought this was about forcing people to AI interact with the Start Menu.

And !bang searches all the bangs.

They write some of the best post-mortems out there. No “mistakes were made” nonsense.

We done f-ed up. Here’s how and why, and what we’re doing about it.

On the AI coding IDE side, VSCode has pretty much hoovered up everyone, mainly because JetBrains offered their own AI option, which kept competitors away. On the server side, though, integrating with AI is still wide open.

You eventually have to hit Python because of all the ML libraries. But you can run that as a separate microservice or process. Here’s a chance to do something whacky, like let JS invoke Python-ML inline, or port the main ML libraries to JS, or cross-compile JS to CUDA (just spit-balling here). It’ll be a lot easier to try these experiments than trying to push it upstream into Node.

Plus, Bun is used by a bunch of cross-platform CLI tools, including Claude Code, so they can make sure there are no breaking changes.

TBH, I’m surprised nobody’s snapped up Mojo (and Chris Lattner). They have a lot more advanced, AI-relevant, cross-platform tech.

“… at today’s infrastructure costs.”

If everyone talks up the AI crash, there will be a lot of hardware that will become available at fire-sale prices. Anyone with a lot of cash or a line-of-credit will be able to pick them up for pennies on the dollar.

NVidia, however, will have to deal with a glut of 1-2 yo GPUs re-entering the market. They may get into buying them and trashing them just to keep the supply low and prices up. Sort of like a stock buyback.

Either way, strange times ahead.

It’s not a bad outcome. Bun is cool but has $0 revenue and some hand-wavy thing about future paid cloud services. This way, larger companies will give them a more serious shot than they would a small startup.

It still doesn’t have a revenue story, but it’s now strapped onto the side of one of the few AI companies with a decent chance of surviving the next AI Winter. And if Anthropic goes sideways, the Bun engineers can fork the code and keep going.

Just saw a new outdoor Wyze camera with a motorized head, small solar panel, SD-card, and wifi for around $80. If you figure out the server side, it might be a good hardware foundation.

Other option is a Pi-based camera.The server side would be easier to set up, but you would have to figure out power, enclosure, and weatherproofing.

Edit: this might allow access to the video stream: https://github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge

Solving a non-existent problem. Excellent!

It’s not PII, but it is PII-relatable. The website could give you the same answers by having you enter the first 11 digits - leaving out the unique serial number part of the VIN.

A privacy-oriented website that asks for your unique VIN number to be sent to them 🤦🏻‍♂️

I challenged my family not to say WHAT! when reading that headline. So far, everyone’s failed (including myself).

That is pretty evil.

Without signing attestation (both developer and code) there will be no way to find out who was responsible and stop the propagation. This will happen again.

Edit: there have been attempts like https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers, but that hasn’t fixed the problem.

Wonder if this is going to turn into people cutting out catalytic converters, or stripping out copper wiring.

Surprise wife hug attack. She won’t see it coming.

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On a previous thread, someone pointed to https://sonoff.tech/en-us/products/sonoff-dongle-max-zigbee-thread-poe-dongle-dongle-m

Looks like it might support both.