Kai Goodall

got a @sologrants for Deadlink 🚁 @getdeadlink lets one person run a whole team of drones on a search at once. the hard part is when one drops mid-mission, so i built it to catch that, hand the drone's area to another one, and finish the search with a record of what got covered. works in simulation. this grant puts it on real hardware, where motors actually fail and gps actually drifts. no equity, no strings. thank you @sologrants @mcmgoodall @julianweisser @aridutilh for betting on it. next: one real fleet, one dropped drone, and the search still finishes!

@julianweisser 🚀

@mcmgoodall Just getting started.

Yesterday, we launched Solo Grants to fund the world’s most ambitious passion projects. In the past 24 hours alone, we've received 300+ applications. Apply now for up to $1000 sologrants.com

@aridutilh All of the applications I've seen so far are dope, can't wait to read the rest

@mcmgoodall Time to dig into these applications! exciting

@Neesh774 YESSIR

@mcmgoodall FREE MONEY

The world is made of passion projects. We're supporting more of them. Up to $1K grants, no strings attached, for people building ambitious projects solo. Apply @sologrants

@m1guelpf bro how are you this cracked

Honk (2021) running on iOS 27 👀

Small announcement: I received the Merge/Solo grant(@mergedotclub), supporting my project to make affordable scanning electron microscopes, accompanied by a slew of other scientific equipment. And a sneak peek of what's next :) Thanks to @mcmgoodall @julianweisser @aridutilh!

1) Built CellLens after getting tired of patching #microscopy repos for #cardiomyocyte videos. Hybrid: optical flow + #VLM So far: • 0.03 BPM avg error • 100% beat detection on 236 #hiPSC-CM videos • Works on #fluorescence too Looking for early testers DM me! @mergedotclub

i hope i consume enough microplastics so when it's my time they can recycle me into several credit cards

I (w/@Tristan_J_Hall) built a <$900 treadmill that lets you walk in any direction in VR. The closest alternatives with similar functionality cost $40,000. Ours works and it's kind of awesome?? About 1.5 weeks ago, we demoed it @socraticainfo's Symposium! Here's the full story of how it came to be…

Insane project demo from @chloe_h_nguyen and @Tristan_J_Hall at @socraticainfo Symposium. It felt like I was just walking around in VR. Genuine magic. So glad we got to support such a dope project through @mergedotclub.

@julianweisser @pk_iv @browserbase Finally found the perfect thing to watch with my lunch

500 rejections. 0 co-founders. $300M valuation. Solo Founders Podcast Episode 2 is live with @pk_iv of @browserbase. Paul tried to find a co-founder. Nobody took the role. So he started Browserbase alone. Now they've raised $67.5M and have customers like Perplexity and Vercel. All in under two years. His take: "First-time founders should not be solo founders." 03:39 – StreamClub: from 72-hour coding binge to #1 on Product Hunt 06:41 – The 3,000-word memo that became Browserbase 08:32 – Solo by circumstance: co-founder dating and getting rejected 09:50 – The five-tool founder 18:48 – Company culture as a mirror of your flaws 30:46 – 500 rejections and hiring from non-traditional backgrounds 35:44 – Quarterback → head coach → GM: how the CEO role evolves 45:08 – The case against solo founding 51:49 – The case for solo founding

@1llegalEngineer This is so cool

DIY Uranium Mining Tutorial coming soon:

@AnaArsonist Whoever made this 404 is an incredible designer

one of my favourite 404 pages

Last week, I tested the first ROV prototype for @Stellamatics. This was the first half of my Proof of Concept for autonomous ship propeller cleaning. A lot worked: - Basic underwater mobility (forward/back/turn/dive) - Live camera feed over a long tether - Control system held up better than I expected And a lot didn’t (which was the point for this demo): - Waterproofing failure after a few minutes - Motors are underpowered due to current limits - Buoyancy control needs to be active, not manual - Camera clarity and lighting in murky water need a big upgrade I've built a lot of dry robots, but this was my first time building an underwater robot. The biggest win here was the data. Every failure has given me a clear design direction for V2. Better sealing, higher thrust, active buoyancy control, and more sensing. Next up, I'm building and testing the cleaning/polishing module, which is the core of what this robot is meant to do - clean and polish ship propellers. Back to work now! youtu.be/1sMJAoyv4-U

turn that "i told you so" into 20 bucks introducing Wager • prediction markets with your friends

I found an API vulnerability that lets me scrape hundreds of thousands of parking tickets across 1,300+ US cities - and then put them all on a map. parking.exposed (You can even pay someone's ticket for them!)

@Neesh774 @Polymarket It's not gambling anymore, now it's just supporting the homies

quick life update i'll be joining @Polymarket as a design engineer to make their web experience magical

AthenaDAO featured in @TIME Magazine’s Longevity Issue We are honored our novel funding mechanism supporting ovarian aging research and women’s longevity is part of this story It is a watershed moment as some of the research we funded is moving to next stages of R&D READ 👇