Thanks everyone for the kind words! Grad school has been a long but rewarding road. My topic is stability estimation for humanoid robots. It's a bit less exciting than it sounds, in that 90% of the work is mucking around in a robot simulator. Still, it's been a lot of fun to work on, and if the lab's robots fall over less frequently after I'm done, then it was worth the effort.
I've had a great time working on the trajectory planner. It really would not have been possible to progress like this without everyone's testing and feedback. One thing I learned from working on the TP is how valuable feature requests are. There were several times when I thought "ok, the trajectory planner is done now", then someone would request a new feature, or find a slow spot / bug. This led to major improvements that I wouldn't have expected. For example, after line-line blending was done, several folks wanted blending between arc segments. It was a fair bit of work to implement, but doing so helped isolate common code, made the whole thing more maintainable, and solved several subtle bugs. I've worked on other projects where feature requests might as well have been insults, an implication that the project's creators were not wise or clever enough. "Not Invented Here" is a recipe for stagnation and irrelevance. My experience so far with LinuxCNC has been the opposite, and it's been a joy to be a part of. The fact that even newcomers to LinuxCNC like me can contribute is a great sign. I'm excited to see where we'll be even six months from now. -Rob On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:21 PM, TJoseph Powderly <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/21/2014 2:14 PM, Robert Ellenberg wrote: > >>> > >>> Unfortunately, my schedule is filling fast as I wrap up grad school, > so it > >>> will be at least two months before I can tackle big changes like this. > >>> Still, when I do get the time, it'll be nice to implement. > >>> > Thank you very much for all your work > Best of luck in your studies. > regards > TomP > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
