Paul Hansel

Tag: news

  • The slaughterbots are here.

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    In Dune, a fiction novel released nearly sixty years ago, the brutally exploitative tech-enabled Harkonnen use remotely-piloted kamikaze drones, “Hunter-Seekers,” to conduct assassinations of their political enemies. More than a decade ago, the advent of ArduPilot brought quadcopters and drones in general from the cutting edge of technology to the hands of hobbyists and consumers.…

  • In praise of open source hardware

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    This year, I plan to spend more time documenting the work I do that is accelerated by the use of open-source resources. To kick off that effort, I’ll describe a small project I finished this week. 3D-printing and open source hardware is eating the world. I don’t know who Sleighbells64 is, and given that their…

  • Are good things still happening?

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    Some excitement, past and future. From UNSW, new research: quantifying the urban heat island effect in cities like Sydney and Kolkata. Community Earth System Model 3: Incoming update to the CESM series of open-source planetary physics simulators, targeted for this summer. Potentially featuring better clouds. Upcoming NASA science missions: Including Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1…