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Friday Catblogging: An Open-Source Robotic Cat

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???? Sarang Sheth writes about a robot cat called Nybble: Designed to be a robot that you can build, play, and explore with, Nybble comes with a laser-cut plywood body that you must put together first. The entire process takes about 4 hours including the assembly, software and calibration configuration time, and once you’re done,…

Business, Daily Bread, Restaurant, Retail/Merchants, Technology

Daily Bread for 5.10.22: A Server Robot for a Short-Staffed Restaurant

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy, with a chance of an afternoon thundershower, and a high of 88.  Sunrise is 5:36 AM and sunset 8:06 PM for 14h 29m 48s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 64.3% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Public Works Committee meets at 6 PM.…

Business, Daily Bread, Economy, Foxconn, Innovation Center/Tech Park, Technology

Daily Bread for 3.23.22: For Foxconn, It’s Someday, Perhaps, Kinda, Sorta…

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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 49.  Sunrise is 6:50 AM and sunset 7:11 PM for 12h 20m 27s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 69.5% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1909,…

Business, Daily Bread, Economy, Technology

Daily Bread for 3.22.22: Go Geothermal

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 46.  Sunrise is 6:52 AM and sunset 7:10 PM for 12h 17m 31s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 78.5% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee meets at 5:30 PM. [Updated: Wednesday, not today.] On…

City, Daily Bread, Economy, Poverty, School District, Technology

Daily Bread for 8.16.21: Broadband Gaps, Right Here in Whippet City

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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 84. Sunrise is 6:03 AM and sunset 7:54 PM, for 13h 50m 37s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 59.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Equal Opportunities Commission meets at 5 PM, the Community Development Authority at 5:30 PM,…

Art, Cartoons & Comics, Education, Science/Nature, Technology

From Comic-Con@Home 2021: The Science of Art

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How is STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) used to inspire and create our most beloved popular arts? What do portrayals of science and scientists in popular media get right and wrong? From world-building to special effects and cosplay, IF/THEN ambassadors (www.ifthenshecan.org) Sydney Hamilton (aerospace engineer), Myria Perez (paleontologist), Dr. Samantha Thi Porter (archaeologist), and Dr.…

Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Business, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, Speaker Vos, State Capitalism, Taxes/Taxation, Technology, Trump, WEDC, Wisconsin, WISGOP

Highlight’s from The Verge’s Foxconn Assessment

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No failure better reveals the bankruptcy of corporate welfare in the Walker and Trump years than the Foxconn project in Wisconsin: exaggeration upon exaggeration, but nothing productive. This was a failure of judgment so obvious and significant that everyone involved should retire from policymaking. Walker Administration, Trump Administration, the WISGOP, the WEDC, down to Whitewater’s Community…