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The Companion That Logs On When Everyone Else Logs Off

Insomniacs, night-shift workers, and anyone whose body has drifted out of sync with the rest of the world share a quiet truth: the loneliest hours are the ones when nobody is awake to share them. Friends are asleep, the phone is silent, and the night stretches long. It is this overlooked audience that platforms like SweetDream seem, almost by accident, to serve best.

Visit sweetdream.ai at three in the morning and the experience is no different than at noon. The AI companion you have built, down to its looks, voice, personality and small idiosyncrasies, is simply there, and the chat picks up your context as if no time had passed. Voice messages and real-time phone calls that sound convincingly human fill the silence, while the AI-generated photos and videos give the whole thing a presence that text alone never manages.

What separates SweetDream from the wider field is the combination: realistic conversation that actually remembers you, polished media, optional video and live cam sessions with select characters, and privacy that holds without exception. For the people whose nights run opposite the world, an AI girlfriend who keeps the same odd hours is not a gimmick. It is, on the long nights, genuinely good company.

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Last week, on behalf of ACORD Corporation, I pushed through the 3rd major Alpha release of Stellarios, which is a software suite designed by the Australian Company ACORD. With a number of bug fixes in our Asteroid Dodgers game, the level selector now also contains the options menu. We’ve also added a digital assistant called PyVA, which will be used to complete certain actions in Stellarios apps as well as a way for members of ACORD to control their robotics projects. PyVA is the major addition this time around, and that’s why we decided to name the release after the assistant.What is PyVA?PyVA is still under active development. It’s also in very early days - we only started working on it this month, and right now it just works with the wikipedia & wolframalpha databases. But the potential is there, and with the pip module with Python available, there’s nothing we can’t do. One of the great things about Python is that not only is it easy to read, learn and write, it works on most devices, which is the overall goal of Stellarios - to work on iPhones, Google Android, Linux/Unix, MacOS, & Windows.PyDA was originally inspired by the Replika.ai app, which is part of Stellarios. However, the great thing about PyDA is that internet access is not required, and it loads fast on any device. Furthermore, the wx.Python module allows us to use the Material Design standards (http://material.io). This ensures that the context box and widgets will take the look and feel of the respective OS. On Windows, for example, the dialogue box would have the control buttons (close, maximise, minimise) in the correct locations with the correct icons, thanks to the wx.Python database which is accessed through pip. Python also works well on all devices (as mentioned above), and while Replia.ai can work with emulators, it would be awkward to build a “port” version to run on desktop environments. However, the Stellarios suite can be run on any device, and thanks to the powers of VNC & emulators, if a user requires it all applets in Stellarios can be used on any device.What else has been added?Bug fixes have removed the extra-long loading time in our game Asteroid Dodgers when trying to view the level selector. We have also added the options context menu to the level selector. More bug fixes can be viewed at the Changelog.

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Last week, on behalf of ACORD Corporation, I pushed through the 3rd major Alpha release of Stellarios, which is a software suite designed by the Australian Company ACORD. With a number of bug fixes in our Asteroid Dodgers game, the level selector now also contains the options menu. We've also added a digital assistant called PyVA, which will be used to complete certain actions in Stellarios apps as well as a way for members of ACORD to control their robotics projects. PyVA is the major addition this time around, and that's why we decided to name the release after the assistant.What is PyVA?PyVA is still under active development. It's also in very early days - we only started working on it this month, and right now it just works with the wikipedia & wolframalpha databases. But the potential is there, and with the pip module with Python available, there's nothing we can't do. One of the great things about Python is that not only is it easy to read, learn and write, it works on most devices, which is the overall goal of Stellarios - to work on iPhones, Google Android, Linux/Unix, MacOS, & Windows.PyDA was originally inspired by the Replika.ai app, which is part of Stellarios. However, the great thing about PyDA is that internet access is not required, and it loads fast on any device. Furthermore, the wx.Python module allows us to use the Material Design standards (http://material.io). This ensures that the context box and widgets will take the look and feel of the respective OS. On Windows, for example, the dialogue box would have the control buttons (close, maximise, minimise) in the correct locations with the correct icons, thanks to the wx.Python database which is accessed through pip. Python also works well on all devices (as mentioned above), and while Replia.ai can work with emulators, it would be awkward to build a "port" version to run on desktop environments. However, the Stellarios suite can be run on any device, and thanks to the powers of VNC & emulators, if a user requires it all applets in Stellarios can be used on any device.What else has been added?Bug fixes have removed the extra-long loading time in our game Asteroid Dodgers when trying to view the level selector. We have also added the options context menu to the level selector. More bug fixes can be viewed at the Changelog.

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Acord Robotics - Open Source Rover

Thanks to NASA & Github, we have a way to (kind of) recreate the Mars 2020 rover in our own backyard. This means we can create another branch of robots — the ones inspired by space probes and rovers. All branches can be controlled in Stellarios (see this post on how releases work).

“The JPL Open Source Rover is an open source, build it yourself, scaled down version of the 6 wheel rover design that JPL uses to explore the surface of Mars. The Open Source Rover is designed almost entirely out of consumer off the shelf (COTS) parts. This project is intended to be a teaching and learning experience for those who want to get involved in mechanical engineering, software, electronics, or robotics.”

TECHNICAL ATTRIBUTES

Notes:

Cost is in US Dollars

We are using metric measurements

We will probably use an Android app, maybe with the Arduino Esplora we acquired

We’ve forked this repo to Github/Acord-Robotics/Open-Source-Rover

We can change the parts, however by changing the parts we may improve one thing but compromise another -

“One potential change is for the motors; you can, for example, select higher RPM motors (to drive your rover faster) at the sacrifice of max stall torque, which would potentially limit your rover’s ability to climb” (from the Project’s Readme)

We can use our Arduino Esplora Board to communicate with the Raspberry Pi — as the board has a joystick and buttons, so it is sort of a mini-controller

There is a Tapatalk Forum — Landing Site

The partslist is located here & on the ACORD forums — you need to log in to view the ACORD forums. Join ACORD!

Stellarios

Stellarios is the official operating system and app of ACORD. Stellarios will be designed to work on MacOS & Windows devices, and there will be apps created for Android, iOS & Linux devices. Stellarios is going to be a bundle of applications that will be used by ACORD Corporation members to perform certain operations.

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Pong gist on github

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Inspired by the Star Riggers series, in #StarSailors we will have the Flux & the riggers. More to come