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tomjacobson Starship Robots – Small robots that travel sidewalks for local delivery

Hey I'm building this too! Doesn't quite look as high tech, but a Kinect + ROS + RC car + a basket goes a long way. https://medium.com/@TomPJacobs/self-driving-cars-now-in-mini...

tomjacobson What Makes Uber Run

yay they mentioned my name in the article

tomjacobson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2015)

Location: San Francisco USA and Melbourne Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: iPhone dev, Android dev, HTML CSS, JavaScript, Rails, MySQL, Angular.js. Node, ROS, Raspberry Pi, Redis, C++, PHP, AWS.

Resume: https://www.pdfhost.net/index.php?Action=Download&File=82540...

Love startups. P2P C++ developer at Red Swoosh (https://medium.com/@TomPJacobs/secrets-of-the-best-6bae52d80...). Wrote the Expensify mobile apps. Building companies since. Contributing writer on TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/14/how-to-better-predict-unico...

Email: tom@tappily.com.au

Looking to do web development, mobile development, hardware development, or business development, for a startup with a useful purpose to consumers, that is pushing the use of new technology forward. Love self driving car technology, robots, and drones.

tomjacobson The story of .io

Isn't it funny that the web has country codes at all? Clearly they're not being used most of the time for their country code purpose. It seems like a bit of a mistake to have them. It's right there in the web's name: this web thing is world wide.

tomjacobson Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

Alright! This is just what I was looking for when I submitted my video to YCF2015: What other applications sounded like.

tomjacobson Show HN: Walk down the street with others – Use Chrome on desktop (no mobile)

Sooo... it's like Twitch meets Street View. Comment on your neighbourhood, and inside stores.

tomjacobson Show HN: Street View Meets Snapchat: Interactive Neighbourhood Tours

Imagine if you could walk around the whole neighbourhood, and into every store, and choose all the things they offer, like all the different items on the menu, to see what they really look like. Then you'd know what to eat for dinner tonight, from home!

tomjacobson It's all about the timing, baby

Pick the title reference

tomjacobson Amazon Echo Released

Imagine what happens when a computer hears everything you say.

And tells you what it thinks you want.

Sorta like: http://theinternetthinks.com/

tomjacobson $34 Smartphone Part II – Teardown

It's amazing that you can have a fully working internet device in your pocket now for $34. It'll be $5 in a few years. Think of the world disruption then, when all of the internet is available to everyone who can afford a $5 meal.

Let's talk about it: If you have something to say, add it here:

http://glitchclub.com/?topic=34

tomjacobson Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

Something where people can talk about their projects that they're working on:

http://glitchclub.com

tomjacobson Join the Engineering Leisure Class

Yeah it's for desktop and mobile. Desktop for browsing and watching and listening, and take your phone out of you want to add your voice.

tomjacobson Join the Engineering Leisure Class

Try telling us about your projects and updates on Glitch Club, this is exactly what it's for: http://glitchclub.com

tomjacobson Join the Engineering Leisure Class

This is exactly what I'm building with Glitch Club. It's a community of talented engineers who could be creating great things if they had the support of others and the community feedback on their work daily. Check it out:

http://glitchclub.com

At the moment I'm exploring other directions with it, such as having it as a story telling platform, but the original idea was a startup/engineering sounding board. With reply videos able to be added to the existing videos there, and smart conversations happening through video replying to video.

tomjacobson WebRTC on a drone

So cool! This is perfect to show off on Glitch Club, want to record a quick little explanation of how it works here? http://glitchclub.com

tomjacobson Show HN: Similar Phone Finder

I can't find iPhone original. Ok just kidding. I found it.

Hey want to talk about how you built this phone finder site on Glitch Club? http://glitchclub.com/?glitchnow

tomjacobson Show HN: Dextro Stream – Periscope livestream discovery with computer vision

Hi David,

That's a neat little explanation of how the system works underneath. Would you like to explain it in a quick little casual video on http://GlitchClub.com so we can see?

tomjacobson Show HN: A 60 second meditation tool to help clear your mind

I feel calmer already. Tell us about it on http://glitchclub.com !

tomjacobson Show HN: Color drop animation

Want to show it off on Glitch Club? http://glitchclub.com

tomjacobson Show HN: Chirpy – Realtime data audiolization

Weekend project? Tell more people about it. I just made something called glitch club that is sorta like "Show HN" on steroids. Show us Chirpy via video if you have the chance: http://glitchclub.com

tomjacobson Show HN: Her. Designs as you speak

Only works in Google Chrome.

tomjacobson Looks Like Zynga Just Bought OMGPOP For $200 Million

Are you going to make an iPad/iPhone version?

tomjacobson Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

https://www.expensify.com/help/receipts/email

tomjacobson Coolest Arduino projects

How about a live controllable RC car with camera? http://www.sfrover.com