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An Interview with Jason Huggins

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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
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