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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 · 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

In this paper, we trained a DINOv2 -based classifier on iNaturalist data to generate 140k pseudo-labels from #UAV imagery. The labels were used to pretrain and fine-tune a semantic #segmentation model, outperforming manual labelling on plant species segmentation 🌲. #RemoteSensing #ComputerVision

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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 · 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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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 · 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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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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