will steddenbonkerfield | projects
Financial Modeling for a Foodtruck — As I'm trying to think through the business details for WORC Foods, I've been building simple models to try to estimate what the financial picture would look like for the food truck business. I've found ...
WORC Foods website animation — A few weeks ago, while talking about my startup idea, someone asked me if I had a website yet. I figure it would make it easier to explain what I'm trying to do if I ...
su_chef slices — My su_chef robotics project is coming along, and I've finally gotten to the point where I can actually slice vegetables. It's still a little finicky, but the arm can identify vegetables, pick them up, drop ...
Simulating the Braccio robotic arm with ROS and Gazebo — As I'm continuing to build my su_chef robotic food prep project, I've realized it will be more efficient to design and prototype using robotics simulations. So last weekend, I took a deep dive into integrating ...
Updating su_chef object detection with custom trained model — As part of my su_chef project, I needed to expand the camera object detection model to include more classes that I am interested in. Originally, I was using the standard YOLOv3 weights file from pjreddie's ...
su_chef prototype 1: My robotic arm that detects apples and picks them up — In my previous post, I described my idea to start a worker-owned automation company by building a robotic food truck. I've started designing the interior of the truck and simulating it, but before I finish ...
Timeline Streamgraph from Google Sheets Data — I've made a new kind of visualization called a Timeline Streamgraph. It's a modification of a conventional streamgraph, flipped on its side so that time flows from bottom to top. I built it this way ...
Twitter for Hipster — tl;dr; I made a web extension that removes all the really popular tweets from your timeline. You can install it for Firefox, and view the open source code here. As I've been reading Twitter I've ...
Amplifying Yeast — In this time of minimally available yeast, it's important for bakers to extend their yeast supplies a bit. Many have turned to sourdough, but if you don't eat bread every day, feeding a sourdough starter ...
Building a Virtual Black Rock City — When Burning Man announced that they were canceling the party in the desert this year, they hinted that they wanted to try to make an online Black Rock City experience. But as others have mentioned, ...
A GPT2+BERT reddit reply bot in 20 minutes — There's a new subreddit called talkwithgpt2bots that's intended to let people interact with AI based comment bots. I got my tupperware-party bot working again on there, but it would be awesome to have a bunch ...
Getting so-so-social with #bridgy and the #IndieWeb — I've avoided it for a long time, but recently, I've started to get really into social media*. I've written about why I bother, but briefly, it's to help contribute to fighting the bad parts of ...
Skylight Chapters 5 & 6 — Three years ago, I started writing a story called Skylight. The story takes place in another solar system where society never looked up and wondered about the stars, until one day, they did. If I ...
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