Hackaday Links: August 14, 2022

What’s this? News about robot dogs comes out, and there’s no video of the bots busting a move on the dance floor? Nope — it looks like quadruped robots are finally going to work for real as “ground drones” are being deployed to patrol Cape Canaveral. Rather than the familiar and friendly Boston Dynamics “Big Dog” robot, the US Space Force went with Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Q-UGVs, or “quadruped unmanned ground vehicles.” The bots share the same basic layout as Big Dog but have a decidedly more robust appearance, and are somehow more sinister. The dogs are IP67-rated for all-weather use, and will be deployed for “damage assessments and patrols,” whatever that means. Although since this is the same dog that has had a gun mounted to it, we’d be careful not to stray too far from the tours at Kennedy Space Center.



If you’re living out in the sticks, your choices for high-speed internet are sometimes limited to Starlink or paying out tens of thousands of dollars to have utilities extended to your house. Or, if you’re Jared Mauch from Scio Township in Michigan, there’s another way — take the hacker credo to extremes and build your own ISP. Having been quoted $50,000 by Comcast to extend lines to his house, about five years ago he decided instead to just start his own ISP by laying two miles of underground fiber to connect to the nearest network provider. He installed all the gear needed to service his own house plus his surrounding neighbors. He has built up his network to 14 miles of fiber servicing a ..

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