Not voice assistants but for anything that falls into the body of text category (emails, letters, documentaton) I just use Dragon NaturallySpeaking, mainly to give myself an RSI break from typing.
A Radiologist friend of mine convinced me to give it a try, apparently radiology reports are dictated in most places nowadays
I think the main frustration is often speed and precision but with modern dictation software it is pretty flawless.
No, compliant mechanisms are important but the real gap in Robotics is perception (and no perception is not just Computer Vision).
There is such an insane amount of information richness in mammals and sensor specialization:
- Merkel discs
- Ruffini corpuscles
- Meissner corpuscles
- Pacinian corpuscles
- Muscle spindles
- Golgi tendon organs
- Nociceptors
And it's not the biology 101 types of sensors (in terms of variety of sources) but also the information density per square millimetre. It is orders of magnitude above anything that has ever been created with technology.
Once we leap above just Visual Servoing and start reaching sensory density and feature parity with human skin, joints, muscle, feet/hands, then we may start to see real breakthroughs.
Question for the people who have used the CH32V003 or more generally WCH, either for hobby or production, what is the current state of documentation and toolchain for these chips? Positive experiences, war stories?
I've used CH32X035 (which is practically CH32V00x plus USB and some other things) at the hobbyist level (no-frills keyboard PCB designs).
The impression I get of WCH and their CH32 line is it ... draws heavy inspiration from STM32.
WCH provide English translated datasheets and reference manuals. They're fine.
Their own recommended toolchain is a fork of GCC. But as far as I can tell, they haven't shared their changes anywhere. The specifics of the changes they've made are a bit beyond my understanding, though.
With the open source distributions of GCC toolchains work just fine. I've built Rust crates as firmware libraries for them.
That the CH32X035 is very simple to design for (& low cost) means I'd rather make use of it for hobbyist keyboard PCB designs compared to the RP2040.
Is there any deeper study on long term effects regarding retinal damage?
I would imagine, even with safe dosages, there would be some form of cumulative effect in terms of retinal phototoxicity.
More so if we consider the scenario that this becomes a standard COTS feature in cars and we are walking around a city centre with a fleet of hundreds of thousands of these laser sources.
Some lidar units simply use the wavelength that the human eye is opaque to.
The grandparent comment is about camera lenses with little to no near infrared cutoff filter. Some older iPhones were like that and that was the original breaking story.
Absolutely, and is a major cause of cataracts. Somewhat near 100% of people with lenses in their eyes will get cataracts eventually if they are ever exposed to unfiltered sunlight.
I remember those old cellphones with weak IR filters. It was a scandal because light clothing turns out to be more transparent to IR than to visible light so they were acting as a sort of clothing "X-Ray" in bright light. Creepers on the Internet tried to start a whole new genre of porn but were shut down in a hurry by cellphone manufacturers adding robust IR filters on the next generation of smartphones.
Shame that perverts had to ruin that for us, it was kinda neat to point a TV remote as the camera and see the bulb light up.
We have progressively absorbed single function items into a mobile computer.
Watch, notepad, calendar, phone, flashlight, camera, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.
The issue with declaring single function items as obsolete is that it removes redundancy and really sets us all up for an increasingly more critical single point of failure in our pocket.
> I can almost guarantee this is from some endpoint management software your company installed.
I had the same issue with a loan machine from a client, super responsive onsite, but once I connected through a VPN from an external network, all the basic functionality in the file manager was brought to a halt. Even something as simple as right click on a folder to show a context menu would take several seconds.
The files were all local (also with Onedrive sync disabled) so I am almost positive it was whatever they were using for endpoint protection (Can't recall 100% but probably something from CrowdStrike).
Not recent but the slow trend towards a complete loss of clickability in both desktop and mobile UX.
I read text and sometimes I can interact and click/tap it for some action but other times it is just text. Not having a visual distintion between those two seems hostile. But maybe I'm just showing my age.
KIT had a project on this (Project KAMINA) which looks like it is also cited in the linked paper.
They had a spin off SMELLDECT GmbH which sells a kit but not exactly a order from DigiKey thing. I imagine you will need to send an RFQ and go through the motions with their sales team.
A Radiologist friend of mine convinced me to give it a try, apparently radiology reports are dictated in most places nowadays
I think the main frustration is often speed and precision but with modern dictation software it is pretty flawless.