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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Funny how lots of #robotics companies are pushing for robotics in the _real world_. This is probably becoming a buzzword in the field. Now, we just need to determine what is _real world_ and what is _fake world_

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This November, I had the opportunity to attend #ROSConFR in Strasbourg. Here is a summary of the discussions that happened during these two enriching days damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/roscon-...

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ROSCon FR & DE 2025 highlights

Highlights from Strasbourg

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Vibe coding is when your QA Engineer doesn't know what is a unit test

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Excited to announce UVT-RS, my first #robotics project in #Rust! 🦀 It’s a set of crates for working with Uncrewed Vehicle #Trajectory (UVT) files. This project was a great way to learn Rust crate development and robotics #data formats. More infos on #GitHub: github.com/IamPhytan/uv...

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Got recently added to a development team where half of the developers are vibe coders. Breaking changes and half-implemented features are added to the codebase every day. Brb will try to enforce code protection rules and will add a test suite

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

There is most probably at least one person right now on Earth right now that reads and interacts with more LLM-written than human-written text on a daily basis. We live in a society

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Future is not buying the latest tech devices, but reusing old devices. I had a Galaxy Tab tablet that was made obsolete with latest #Android versions. I recently recovered it and installed #LineageOS on it. Now, it is perfect for reading and annotating #robotics papers on the go! #research

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

📢 New Paper Alert! Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for #Semantic #Segmentation of High-Resolution #UAV Images for Natural #Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment Paper 📄: doi.org/10.3390/f160... Blog post 🌐: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/forests... Code 💻: github.com/norlab-ulava... #AI

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Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution UAV Images for Natural Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment

Published in MDPI Forests journal!

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution UAV Images for Natural Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment

Published in MDPI Forests journal!

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

📢 Two new blog posts! I've come across so many great resources lately that I had to start compiling them in one place. So here are two posts packed with links for anyone starting in #Robotics 🤖 and #AI 🧠. - 🤖: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/robotic... - 🧠: damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/ai-reso...

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Artificial Intelligence Resources

Learning resources for anyone interested in the vast domain of AI

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Vous êtes à la recherche d'un petit projet d'ingénierie à faire ce soir ? Venez sur Twitch voir @barbatronic.bsky.social enseigner les bases de @freecad.bsky.social ! C'est une bonne entrée de matière pour apprendre à maitriser la conception 3D ! www.twitch.tv/barbatronicl... #FreeCAD #CAD

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FreeCAD en multijoueur - Live 220 #CAO

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

While I took a year off of robotics competitions, my robotics team is getting ready for #Eurobot 2025! Team #Chat #Robotique 🐱 will be participating in the largest #robotics competition in #Europe, in #France at the end of May. Stay tuned for more updates!

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

When in front of a new device: - Gamers: Can it run Doom? - Some companies: Can it run Java? Can it run C#? - Roboticists: Can it run #ROS? #Robotics #Programming

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In 2023, in preparation to the holidayd, I designed and soldered about 20 small Christmas tree🎄 PCBs to give to my relatives. This year, I've cleaned it up and published it as an open-source hardware project: github.com/IamPhytan/ch.... #OpenHardware #PCBArt #Electronics #PCB #Embedded

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Barbatronic @barbatronic.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Know anyone looking for a talented roboticist? My friend is skilled and ready to join a great team ! 🦾 Check out their CV and share if you can ! #Robotics #Hiring

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

(1/2) 2024 was a year with lots of ups and downs I had the opportunity to see a solar #eclipse, attend AI talks in #MILA, publish my first paper as a first author, finish a master's degree in robotics, compete in a European #robotics contest in #France, and attend #IROS2024 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

A robot on which I worked for in the Eurobot robotics contest

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A gift idea for all your #maker friends : storage boxes (cookie boxes may also work 🍪) #robotics #electronics #hardware #engineering

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🖼️ A figure with #TikZ is worth a thousand words To present the underlying logic behind a #rosbag, I made a figure for my #thesis illustrating a field experiment and the timeline of a rosbag. Each tick represents a message and each color represents a #ROS topic. #Robotics #Research #Robot #LaTeX

A figure made with LaTeX that shows a robot in a landscape, in front of a mountain, between a tree and bushes

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 #Rust #Rustlang 🦀

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Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Solved the first #AdventOfCode challenge. This year, I'll be mostly using #Rust to solve the problems

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

'Tis the Season for #Makers At this time of the year last year, I made some small #Christmas #tree shaped #PCBs. Everything was done with #FOSS: @freecad.bsky.social for the outline, Inkscape for the decorations, @kicad.org for the PCB design, PlatformIO for programming. #Electronics #Robotics

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Sowbot @rosmo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#Robotics packs Biggest: bsky.app/starter-pack... (full) Open source: bsky.app/starter-pack... Women: bsky.app/starter-pack... Vision: bsky.app/starter-pack... Distributed: bsky.app/starter-pack... AI: go.bsky.app/DfAoaJ1 More: bsky.app/profile/scot...

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Since finishing my M.Sc. degree in Comp Sci (Field Robotics) and attending #IROS2024, I have seen many use cases of #MachineLearning in robotics🤖, from #SLAM to #Control. Are there any good resources for people with a #robotics background who want to use more ML in their #research?

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Clearpath Robotics #husky UGV electrical architecture diagram made with #TiKZ #latex #robotics #ROS #ROS2

Electrical architecture of a Clearpath Husky

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Damien LaRocque @historicode97.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Field #Robotics be like: "Robot, can you pick the coffee cup and place it on the table over there?" #Robotics #RoboticsResearch #Research

A robot in front of a pick-and-place mission.
He is asked to fetch a coffee cup on a counter and to cross a minefield, a pile of snow, a pool and a pile of sand before placing the cup on a table

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Barbatronic @barbatronic.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Hello there !

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