For the past year I've been co-working at a game development hub, and as a lifelong gamer and robotics engineer, it's been a really fun place to land. Turns out these two worlds have a lot to say to each other! In this post I ramble a bit about my gaming hobby, the surprising overlap between robotics and game development, the state of the industry, and whether I should ever try making a game myself.
A full year into freelancing, and yep, we're officially doing this for real now. In this post, I'm sharing what changed after setting up my company, what projects and open-source things are currently on my plate, and what I'm still learning the hard way about balancing contracts, content, travel, and my sanity.
This is probably the fastest I've ever written a blogpost. First the news of Catherine O'Hara dying from complications of rectal cancer, and then just a few moments ago... James Van Der Beek didn't survive his stage 3 colorectal cancer diagnosis from 2023, the same year I got diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer. However, in this blogpost I'd like to highlight how glad I was for some of the moments I got because of that diagnosis, and a lot of it also had to do with my background as a roboticist.
It is always good to be reminded of how hard robotics can be! I got a taste of that again when I worked with the SO-100 this summer and the last few months. But I had a lot of fun building it at least!
Six months into my freelancing journey, and I'm still getting more questions about being self-employed than about my actual robotics work! From navigating intermediary companies to managing anxiety, from streaming experiments to juggling multiple assignments. Here are the honest lessons I've learned so far. Spoiler: Past Kimberly was perhaps a bit too ambitious with those talk applications...
Three months ago, I went head-first into full-on Windows Development. Have I gone screaming mad already? Well... no, actually! I managed to establish a handy workflow between the ROS native Windows install and WSL2. This blog post shows the process of what I've set up.
Enjoy!
In this blog post, I explain how I tried to figure out in which simulator I should invest some of my project development time. Little did I know of the very deep rabbit hole that presented itself, and I dived right in! Did it help me with my choice? A little, but perhaps I've created something that is even more useful: a best-of-list of robot simulators.
Enjoy!
This is on me... I didn't prepare Robbie enough that we will be testing in simulation today, so usually have to clear out some suspicion first. Gotta look at a simulator with higher fidelity and better physics.
Enjoy!
Hi! I've taken a couple of months off for a career break, but I'm finally ready for the next step... to start working for myself! Yes, you heard me correctly, I'm going to be self-employed 
! After talking to a couple of people who are already freelancing in the robotics, I'm pretty convinced that I want to go in this direction. So here's a blog post to explain a bit of my reasoning, my updated portfolio, and the kind of assignments I'll be looking for.
Enjoy!
At the European Robotics Forum they kept on talking about a humanoid robotic development strategy, but how about their companions huh!? They need some love and attention too!
Enjoy!