[–] 3 points 8 hours ago

Look into the possibility of a LEGO Robotics League in your area. If you are in the states I coached a team with this group https://firstlegoleague.org

There are also robotics leagues, Covid prevented me and my son from participating in those, so I do not know as much about them.

You can purchase the kits for your own projects.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I saw a video the other day about U.S. shipbuilding, specifically military vessels. It takes four years and a lot of investment to get many of these skilled workers up to speed, but turnover is high. Why? Because of working conditions, and they are paid hourly, so sometimes if the weather is bad, they do not get paid for a full 40-hour work week.
    Interviewer: "Why not just make them salaried?"
    Company rep: "Because then they would not get overtime pay."
    Because that is just an irrefutable law of the universe, that you cannot pay someone for 40 hours a week baseline, but also pay them for anything above that.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    industry faces a shortage of skilled workers

    Maybe if you pay them decent salaries and provide decent conditions you'll have more than enough people willing to learn the skill and work for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Without tooting our own horns too much, this already exists and has for the last five years: https://remocon.tv/

    It's very customiseable, has the same extremely low latency that they promise without showing, and has all of the flexibility in hardware and interaction. People should hook their robots up to it.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    It's rather sad the article and the website are likely generated by "AI agent", too...
    What the heck is wrong with this world nowadays...

    1. I see the news, read them;
    2. Open the main website the news refer to - web-archived;
    3. Read the website;
    4. Press on the "View Docs" or "Get the SDK";
    5. Nothing happens;

    The reason: No links even exist for these buttons.
    There's only: <a href="#">View Docs<a/>.

    Did anyone even check the output of these sorrowful awful stupid LLMs?
    Why not... you know... verify your work prior publishing...?
    Oh... indeed... it's not yours... no human ever at all...
    Convenient... No one is responsible for mistakes...

    Such fudging sorrowful time to live...

    And yes... I regret my time wasted...


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