Hacker News: monuszero

New comment by monuszero in "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"

monuszero — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:01:16 +0000

That precise mixed technique approach has worked well for me. I’ve been using JITX (python based circuit design with a powerful auto router). Free for personal use, and has been discussed a few times here in HN.

Edit: it’s almost assumed at this point but for completeness Claude / Codex were the ones driving the OO python code and datasheet research and parsing.

https://www.jitx.com/

New comment by monuszero in "The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform"

monuszero — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:57:15 +0000

Not sure if an oblaque tomb raider reference or math metaphor.

New comment by monuszero in "CARA – High precision robot dog using rope"

monuszero — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:19:38 +0000

So, Aaed was our intern last summer - and he’s the real deal. I got to work with him on some really cool bespoke robotic end-effectors and the guy has great design instincts. Picked up mechatronics skills like a sponge, grokked hamming codes in like 30sec from a whiteboard doodle. Super hard worker too, he would stay late in the electronics lab to work on the motor design for what turned out to be CARA - we had fun testing the backlash one evening and ever since I’ve been trying to shoehorn one of those actuators into a project.

Potential and active founders here should consider reaching out (i think a startup setting would suit him better than corporate research), though he’s obviously got his own stuff going on and a degree to finish!

New comment by monuszero in "HPC at Autodesk"

monuszero — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:35:51 +0000

[current employee of Autodesk] Minor contributions to existing OSS are generally encouraged day-to-day by employees.

There are also more strategic open source initiatives such as the USD stuff covered here.

Many of us, especially in the research division, would love to put more code out there. (For example some tools that we use internally) The good news on this front is that there is now a sanctioned process for this to happen, and the attitude seems much warmer than when I joined a decade ago.

I’m personally involved in trying to open source some of my own work in the robotics domain, and have been pleasantly surprised with the response.