Blogs

Essays and notes on computation, robotics, perception, and things learned the hard way.

On Forward Kinematics and Subtle Failure Modes
March 2026 • Robotics • Kinematics
A practical exploration of forward kinematics in real robotic arms, and why singular regions often hide slow failures rather than obvious breakdowns.
Camera Calibration Pitfalls I Keep Running Into
January 2026 • Vision • Calibration
Notes from iterating camera calibration routines with ArUco and checkerboards — where assumptions silently cause coordinate drift.
Why IK Solvers Break When You Don’t Notice
December 2025 • Robotics • Inverse Kinematics
Thoughts on conditioning, regularization, and why some inverse kinematics implementations work in theory but fail in practice.
Monocular Depth + Vision Pipelines for Perception
November 2025 • Vision • Depth Estimation
An experiment with MiDaS and pose pipelines, with observations on consistency and the limits of monocular depth in robotics.
Control Loops, Sensor Noise, and What You Ignore
October 2025 • Controls • Systems
A reflective write-up on robust control, model assumptions, and why ignoring small noise sources often leads to big surprises.