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[UPDATE: This has been moved April 6th to accommodate the holiday. Keeping it early for Euro friends though :)]

If you'd like to hear me talk about and answer questions about the chainsaw robot, tune in April 6th at 2PM EST.

The number one request that I've gotten from all of you wonderful, helpful, much appreciated patrons is MORE INFO PLEASE. This livestream is an experiment to see if there's a way for me to share more information about my projects without taking on more work than I can handle.  Hopefully this is manageable and useful. Hope to see you there!

- Shane

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Chainsaw robot post video discussion

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Benjamin Clerc

Awesome, can’t wait 😃 I’m glad, for once this is the perfect time for me (I live in France) 😇

stuffmadehere

Awesome! I made it earlier to try to accommodate European friends :)

Petar Kaser

Youre aweomsome Shane! Pls contact lock picking layer. Im sorry if i misspell.

Petar Kaser

Pleasd answe me only i pay is to b able to talk to u.

stuffmadehere

I know a lot of people want to see the lock picking lawyer (myself included!) - I'm planning to send him the lock(s) after I wrap up this robot so it should be next!

Foodman

Missed the stream, but from what I gather a lot of the problem with the code was that it had to calculate a near infinite number of points because it had too check everywhere. Would it be possible too artificially make the points larger to reduce the number of computations it had too do, possibly give it a margin of error that where it checks if it has already checked a point within say 1/2" or 1/4" or to just avoid those areas entirely?

stuffmadehere

This is a good idea and what I actually ended up doing . I "discretized" space which helped but still wasn't nearly enough - it took all the other tricks (including some that I didn't really talk about like binary searching) to make the running time reasonable.

Mitchell Roush

I use to concrete chainsaw and it is basically the same “hand” chainsawing process minus some amount of risk, in that the blade is not as sharp as a wood cutting type. The downward force at a certain area at the end of the chainsaw is what makes it cut well, and also what makes it so dangerous. Maybe some sort of hydraulic “left arm” if you’re a “righty” to mimic the downward force that a human arm must create to control the direction of the end of the blade.

Max Sigerman

My computer’s audio died today and watching this I thought the curse was contagious for my phone. Skipped forward 2 min and now excited to watch (and listen) and to be a patron!