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Michael Ferguson
Personal blog · robotandchisel.comhardwareprogramming
Michael Ferguson writes Robot & Chisel, a personal blog at robotandchisel.com about hardware and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A robotics blog by Michael Ferguson. Commenters link it as a source for engineering reading, mainly for his posts on restoring a UBR-1 robot and implementing ROS 2 on it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Here are some that I've been following why working on my newsletter ( https://weeklyrobotics.com/ ). These will be mostly robotics oriented, and some of them might be inactive: * [Robots&Chisel]( http://www.robotandchisel.com/blog/ ) - a blog by Michael Ferguson, he did a very nice series of posts on restoring a UBR-1 robot and implementing ROS-2 on it * [Mike Isted]( https://mikeisted.wordpress.com/ ) - at one poin…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?”Submitted Some Thoughts on Robotics Startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI promise myself to check out ROS2 for quite a some time now but I never find time for a proper sit down. I love the idea of ROS2 but the advice I'm usually giving clients is to only look into it as a part of their R&D and to expect to be very early adopters and therefore most likely needing to fix multiple issues that will inevitably come up. For the companies that have a single product they are focusing on and tha…
Comment linking /2020/07/29/five-things-ros2/
on “Thoughts on 2 Years as a Remote Robotics Consultant”Submitted Restoring a UBR-1 Robot from Craigslist as a story · 1 points
HN discussion