We are in the middle of a very hot summer. As I was mowing the yard this weekend, I stopped to take a break in the shade of the swamp chestnut oak tree in my front yard. I started thinking about the ...
Oak Street History Highlights By Steve W. Oak Street is the oldest AA clubhouse in the world at same location. (New York has the oldest but has moved locations.) 1838 – Land purchased by Nathaniel G. Pendleton, a Revolutionary War hero, elected to Congress in 1840 by the Whig Party 1845 – Property purchased by Christian Donaldson and subdivided 1884 – Because of the Civil War & burning ...
This has the original OAK-D .DAE geometry along with the Gazebo ros_multicamera and standard rgb_camera plugins. Everything is written up as a chunk of .xacro code that should be fairly easily dropped into an existing URDF. What you'll get from this is the OAK-D model, with simulated left/right greyscale cameras and center RGB camera.
Question: how well does OAK-D do 3d pose estimation with hands? A few years ago I designed an avatar-like robot that used a Kinect to capture your pose and transfer that to a robot. It worked great as a fun toy demonstration but there was a slight latency and wrist position wasn’t captured well.
A very noticeable fall equinox feature in these parts is when deciduous tree leaves turn from green to yellow or orange or sometimes red, then fade and waft to the ground. Middle Alaska doesn’t have many species of deciduous trees: paper birch, aspen, willows and balsam poplar are all part of the dominant boreal forest here.