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Fun non-profit side project ideas

15 点作者 curl-up超过 3 年前
Hi all! I&#x27;m a data scientist (specialized in retail analytics) and I quite enjoy my job. However, recently, I&#x27;ve been having a lot of free time, and I&#x27;m looking for a fun (but challenging) long-term side project which is not 100% in my domain. I do not care about making money, and I would prefer it to have a &quot;physical&quot; dimension to them.<p>Some examples I&#x27;m thinking of: Building a face tracking drone, Using OpenBCI sensors, Adding functionalities to XGO Mini &quot;robot dog&quot;.<p>I&#x27;d like to hear more ideas from you, especially if someone has some practical problems they think are worth solving. If anyone is already working on something like this, I&#x27;d love to join you.

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jka超过 3 年前
I&#x27;d like to -- over a long period of time, and potentially with a few false starts -- gradually collect, analyze and turn public natural language recipes from the web into a more structured format.<p>In parallel, I&#x27;d like to identify the ingredients in those recipes, and build a knowledge graph of nutritional, price, availability and other metadata about them. That may be coarse-grained to begin with, but eventually it&#x27;d ideally support fine-grained (regionalized) supply chain information where available.<p>Finally I&#x27;d like to present and provide all of that information to consumers through a simple, understandable interface that lends itself just as well to collaborative, relaxed cooking as it does to economic, time-focused cooking, based on what the user needs.<p>I have few of the data analysis skills, and even fewer of the organizational skills, required to make this happen - and sometimes I think I need someone to provide a bit of direction and task-management for the project.<p>If that sounds at all appealing - and even if all you can offer in return is a bit of feedback or sharing the link with a friend or two: the project is currently available at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reciperadar.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reciperadar.com</a>
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kuzee超过 3 年前
Some ideas:<p>Drone that can clean your gutters while avoiding obstacles like trees and chimneys. This might be very hard, but would be a challenge.<p>A series of smart heating&#x2F;AC vents that open&#x2F;close based on whether people are in the room. Make them solar powered and &quot;sleep&quot; to save power. I think this might be possible without a microcontroller, but maybe easiest with a very energy efficient one.<p>Window that opens when the outside temperature is closer to your target temp than the inside temp. E.g. if your home is set to cool but it&#x27;s cooler outside, open the window. Need a rain sensor.<p>A very large Roomba. Traditional roombas are small, and not super effective as a result. Tolerating a bigger one might be work it. Get one of those battery powered vacuums that work off of power tool battery packs, perhaps.
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rapjr9超过 3 年前
Turn a multi-legged robot into a vacuum cleaner. Roomba style vacuum cleaners can not deal with obstructions like cables, cords, a dropped pen, toys on the floor, a sheet of paper on the floor, etc. A Spot-like robot could recognize and walk over all these and be able to get into odd nooks with a direct-able vacuum. The main difficulties would seem to be 2D path planning based on stereovision and 3D guidance of the vacuum nozzle, probably also based on stereovision. There are quite a few open source quadraped robots out there now, some you can just buy. Seems like a fairly well bounded problem and could make the world a cleaner place!
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throwaway158497超过 3 年前
My home faces a busy street. I will give you camera feed. Do you want to analyze it for say, how many cars&#x2F;trucks pass by it, what is written on the (large) trucks, how often? You can analyze how often a person(s) comes for walking etc. who is the most regular person etc. If interested, reply here with your contact details
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bsldld超过 3 年前
My project does not have &quot;physical&quot; dimension, but it is a high impact social project. In case you want to join then the details of the project idea is documented here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loan-free-ed.neocities.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loan-free-ed.neocities.org</a>
kleer001超过 3 年前
What problems do your neighbours have?