benjaminrigsby

Apartment Workbench

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Over the last several years, I’ve been slowly putting together a small workbench in my apartment. Here are some pictures of its evolution… 🤔 Just the Bench 👷 Under Construction ✔️ Finished? 🔌 A Few “Special Features”

Vicon Set Up Guide

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This guide will give you a quick place to start when you need to re-position Vicon cameras. Our System Specs 8 VICON Vero 2.2 cameras 1 Ethernet switch 1 control PC running Vicon Tracker Custom railing suspended from ceiling (where cameras were mounted) Our System Requirements Make sure you think about what you’re going to … Read more

My System for GTD Inboxing

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This post outlines the system of inboxing that allows me to keep track of everything, or at least most things. These apps and methods are a result of trying many different things over the years. Todoist: I use Todoist as my task management tool. For inboxing, I use Todoist’s task inbox. I just type in … Read more

MATLAB Textbook

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I co-authored the third edition of Introduction to Programming Concepts with MATLAB. This was a fun experience for me as I love teaching and trying to figure out the most effective way to present content for a learner.

How I Use Rocketbook: A Review

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Rocketbook (RB) is a “smart”, reusable notebook. I decided to try one out because I was tired of taking pictures of my “traditional” paper notebooks and having to flip back through a bunch of junk pages to find something I wrote last week. I purchased the Exectutive size (6″x8.8″) from Amazon. I am happy about … Read more

Predicting Stock Trades with Machine Learning

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I decided to select my stock prediction problem with the goal of reducing the complexity of the problem while achieving a useful result. I defined my problem (to solve with machine learning (ML)) as predicting whether WMT would be a good buy/sell within the next D days. A good buy/sell was a change in stock … Read more

Wind Powered Water Pump

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My friend and I designed and built this water pump out as a group project for our Kinematics and Dynamics class. We used mostly recycled parts that were lying around like an old car radiator fan and some shafts and gears from a broken printer. We modified our design around these to stick with the … Read more