Startup fundraising in Texas is hard. Definitely harder than raising in New York or Silicon Valley. BUT, I do expect it to get a whole lot easier and exciting really …
How to be a better communicator and just get the damn message across!
How to be a better communicator To learn how to be a better communicator, start by imagining a water slide at the amusement park. To enjoy the waterslide, you must …
Why I work on Forklift Safety
Forklift Safety Was Not My Dream Job If you asked me 5 years back what I wanted to work on, I can tell you that forklift safety was not on …
Startups: A great early-stage startup CEO needs to be a killer COO
“No one likes schleps, but hackers especially dislike them. Most hackers who start startups wish they could do it by just writing some clever software, putting it on a server …
Immigrant Entrepreneurs: How to build a startup as International Students on F-1 Visa
Immigrant entrepreneurs in the US have gone on to build some of the biggest multi-billion dollar businesses (e.g., Elon Musk). The good news is that there is a path for …
How To: Figure out how to get started with robotics research
Note: This is an email query I received from an undergraduate student who wanted to ask me about how to get into robotics research (SLAM and path planning). I am …
How To: Using SuiteSparse for solving Ax = b or Generalized Least Squares
SuiteSparse by Tim Davis is a high quality sparse linear algebra library written in C that provides CHOLMOD which allows you to solve Ax=b ( in MATLAB CHOLMOD is used for …
A practical introduction to pose-graph SLAM with ROS
Note: This is a live article and as I get time I will update it… In this post, we are going to understand the pose-graph SLAM approach with ROS where …
How To: Building financial stability and grow your money
Disclaimer: I’m not a certified financial adviser and by no means should this article be construed as financial advice and should not be relied upon in making or refraining from making, …
How To: Get ground truth pose data in ROS Gazebo
Sometimes you might need to get the robot’s actual position to compare your state estimation code. Copy paste the contents of this file (plugin_code) into your urdf description file. It …