Far from being someone who enjoys competing with others, I somehow like to challenge myself a lot. Merely a day after I got myself out of this “2-Hour Movie Challenge” that I arbitrary created for Leap Day 2020, here I am again, digging another hole for yours truly. But I…

One of the most sophisticated, user-friendliest consumer robots at tech conferences (or anywhere in general) this year is temi the personal robot. For a brief introduction, I’ll just leave it to the official temi FAQ page: What is temi? temi is the world’s first, truly intelligent, mobile, personal robot for your home. Temi…

[Mission Buildiful #5] — Whenever we see Braille, we usually only think of it as a writing system for the blind. In a sense, its usefulness within the blind community does merit the association. …

[Mission Buildiful #4] — I’ll admit it: As with most other blogs I’ve kept in the past, I am dropping the ball a little with this one as well. It’s been quite a while since I last made a post. A lot did happen during these past few months. In fact, that’s precisely the…

In the previous blog post we went through the concept and specifications of Buildiful Pathfinder, our family of rescue robots. To build a Pathfinder from the ground up, I foresee needing a lot of rapid prototyping down the road. …

Having talked about our manifesto in the last blog post, today I am going to share the conceptual overview of Buildiful Pathfinder — our flagship rescue robot. What you will find below is a quick walkthrough of the features and specifications. 1. Mechanism Legged-System (L) Pathfinder’s legs allow her to traverse a wider variety…

I am just an ordinary person, if but a little restless. I build robots by trade, and I genuinely love what I am doing. It all started when I was still in college — after a curious childhood of building working models for science projects. …

Preparing for Soft Launch First up, app #1, Jet Tag. Generating a Production Build I ran this in the project directory on Terminal: ionic cordova build android --prod --release Unfortunately I got an error. ⚠️ Today’s Issue What has been working in the emulator version failed the production build. > ionic-app-scripts build --prod --target cordova --platform android [18:08:36] ionic-app-scripts 3.2.0

🔥 Important Update An event just came up on my radar for this Thursday, which happens to coincide with — that’s right — Day 7 of this mobile app development challenge! In light of this calendar clash, I have made a somewhat insane decision: I am going to push the launch up a…