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#369 – An Interview with Jason Huggins
Welcome Jason Huggins (@hugs) from Tapster Robotics!
- There is a Chicago 3H Meetup happening Tuesday, November 28th
- He started the Selenium web testing project in 2004 at ThoughtWorks. In 2008, he started Sauce Labs, which makes cloud-hosted testing infrastructure based on Selenium.
- In 2013, Jason helped fix Healthcare.gov
- Early robots were on Tindie which was featured for playing angry birds
- Current robot is the “Sidekick 1.5”
- Different robots over the years have been cartesian, delta and now SCARA.
- Check out this robot sorting pancakes.
- All of the robotics was based on the idea Jason had for building a robot art project with linear actuators. In the mean time there have been examples like the Coca Cola billboard and the MIT inFORM project.
- Nadya Peek has talked about how MIT Media Lab is good at getting the paper and promo but not delivering thousands of a thing.
- pinthing.com was Jason’s software prototype.
- Lego technic
- Jason is a big fan of the ease of using Fritzing. Jason liked the “1 minute shield” video.
- He was also the reason Chris created the simpler version of KiCad tutorials called “Shine on you crazy KiCad“
- Backflip robot
- Robot operating system
- Jason doesn’t work with many languages that don’t have a REPL. We first heard this term when Tony DiCola was on the show talking about micropython.
- “Speed is always a feature”
- “As they say, go big or go home…I went home” (to Chicago)
- There was a singular investor from Indie.vc, Bryce Roberts. He had also been an investor in the Chumby
- The typical archetype of a user is “the boss of test engineer”.
- The testing is done via that web driver protocol.
- Jury sides with T-Mobile in federal lawsuit over theft of ‘Tappy’ robot technology by Huawei
- The Tapster is open source hardware and software! You can find the work on Github under the tapsterbot account and on hugs’ account
- He’d love to chat with you if you’re into kinetic sculpture or are a software or robotics expert. Ping Jason on twitter or via email