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Location: Trento, Italy Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C#, Python, Typescript,.Net, React, Rust

Résumé/CV: https://alescost.com/

Email: costantini.ale [at] hotmail [dot] com

Passionate software developer with experience in web and desktop applications, industrial automation, and robot. I specialize in building efficient and reliable systems, with a strong focus on improving user experience and architecture to make complex technologies more accessible.


Location: Trento, Italy

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C#, Python, Typescript,.Net, React

Résumé/CV: https://alescost.com/

Email: costantini.ale [at] hotmail [dot] com

Passionate software developer with experience in web and desktop applications, industrial automation, and robot. I specialize in building efficient and reliable systems, with a strong focus on improving user experience and architecture to make complex technologies more accessible.


I'm building a web game, inspired by GeoGuessr, but for robotics: find the robot's axis configuration to reach a specific target.

https://www.kineguess.com/

It's still a WIP... lots missing, but happy to get any feedback!


Interested...from Italy! some "hike with kids" filters could be interesting too. I don't have much time at the moment, but if you need an help let me know (even just for brainstorming)


Very Cool!! I'm pretty new to the robotics world, why are you avoiding ROS?


My knowledge of ROS is a couple of years out of date, but primarily that reproducible testing and simulation, with precise time/clock management, which is essential for a reliable product, was very difficult in ROS.

I also felt the ROS build system more convoluted than necessary; and seemed rather brittle - it was too easy to break it with OS or other updates.

We found that many off-the-shelf ROS nodes didn't do quite what we wanted, and ended up spending much more time than expected rewriting code that we expected we wouldn't need to. It is quicker, and we end up with less & more maintainable code, by writing it ourselves.

I expect this could have been resolved, but when testing ROS we also ended up using more compute resources on-robot than we expected.

Using our own system allows us to build exactly what we require, which has become more important as our system gets larger and more complex; and means integrations into other systems (including testing) are easier.


You are already the second case in two weeks that have abandoned ROS for industrial purpose(and not university), preferring to build something of their own. I agree that the build system is more complicated than it should be,but I was unaware of the problems related to the resources used by the nodes.

Your comment gave me a lot to think about, thank you.


how do you find data about price?


It is from their weekly flyer page


And then what do you do to get the data onto the map?


Plotted using Leaflet. A python script creates separate HTML file for every product that has a price differential across stores (many products do not have any price difference across the country). Hosted as a static site.


So you download each state's flyers?


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