Andy Didorosi

i haven’t spoken about this due to my visa status, but fuck it i don’t stand for this shit, never have and never will. the senseless violence in our current world is sickening. abolish ICE.

@sweatystartup Rage bait 🫩

I've been silent on the immigration stuff. Here are my thoughts: I don't want to live in a third world country. I want to be able to trust that my wife and daughter can run around my country safety. I don't like fraud. That isn't my culture. So yeah some things aren't ideal in Minneapolis with people getting pulled over, harassed by ICE, etc. But they're actually doing something and I'm all for it. We have a problem in our cities. And a solution is here. People don't like it, but they should stay home for a few months and come out of their house to a better community.

Our Governor’s team reached out to me last week to allow me 15 minute with @GovWhitmer to ask anything I want unfiltered - no prep, no fancy cameras, no teleprompter. What you’re seeing here from the first 50 seconds we sat down in a car at the auto show.

@scott_scharl @macjshiggins sweet baby Jesus

@macjshiggins paging @thatdetroitandy

I bet this is a “once you have a hammer every problem is a nail” situation

@GotCleanDucts Glad to see it!

@thatdetroitandy Merry Christmas ! Thank you !!🎄

@BartronPolygon @JannikGrothusen repeatability obv going to be low with this. but ideally not a strict functional requirement with vla

@JannikGrothusen I don’t think IK is needed. But I mean, given a trajectory and EEF final position, if you replay it, how close can you get? E.g., can you thread a needle?

I built an open source dev kit for AI-native robotics: - it’s all-in-one (includes leader arm and cameras) - allows to deploy autonomous policies in under a day - can now be ordered for $2,999 🧵 (1/n)

I’m now convinced that we’re just not designed to have infinity information in our pocket.

@ashleevance Happy to help if you need any guidance in the city, especially re tech

Most interesting tech people, companies, hardware in Detroit?

@NeilThanedar @ashleevance 🫶

@ashleevance Best in Biotech: Crystal Brown (CircNova) Hardware + Fun: @thatdetroitandy

I was digging through old files today and found this podcast we did with Greg Mudge from Mudgie's Deli & Wine Bar in 2016. Give it a listen if you want to go back to the past: thedetroitbus.com/behind-counter… We miss you, bud. <3

@yooperguy Closed in the winter

@thatdetroitandy You went next door and saw the Model T factory in the Village, right?

Four bros in a coal shed took over the world.

Launching the 2025 GR Corolla in the car factory. Weird place to do a 60ft but okay. This is not an advert but Toyota did lend me this pre-production prototype for free for a week. Pre-prod because this has the new 8-speed auto. This beautiful beast is expensive, hard to find and has some recurring issues, but it’s impossible not to smile when the spinny boi gets going and you blast off. Definitely in the upper right corner of the hot/crazy matrix. What car do we launch in here next?

Review loaner this week What do?

I won a national rally championship this year but lost a year of progress on the factory - even trade?

pro tip, if you're buying brackets on mcmaster, just download the STEP, and get it made from SendCutSend instead $5.56/ea (SCS) vs $8.94/ea (McMaster)

@peterkoruga I want to see what you come up with! It’s probably about focus - but I’m a bad touchstone for that

This hits home with me. I want to start / produce more content about FUN things (at least to me) that I do, all aspects of health, technology and similar to you, just being in the shop building stuff. And like you have pages of ideas and come up with them faster than I can write them down. But get stuck on the how to produce the content and the classic it isn't good enough excuses and nearly none of them get created. So I decided for me, step one is just creating and posting. Good bad or otherwise. Would be happy to find a way to give you a hand (granted Im literally as far away from you as you can possibly get and still be in MI but Im pretty handy ;) ).

Remember fun?

I have a 2025 Toyota GR Corolla AT press car in two weeks. I’ll bring it back to the factory and analyze it on a lift. What do you want to see it do? What do you want to know? *can’t be destructive/damaging

@drgurner I thought you meant the tech industry - but this probably applies to that as well!

Tech is a trap, unless you use it as a tool. Then, it's a great path to freedom. Don’t allow the things you own, to own you.