#2026-W12 ### Additional website Early this week I ran an experiment, to build and ship a new website in a day. I genuinely love my Obsidian-powered [kindl.work](https://kindl.work/), but it's still more of an archive than a first impression. So I tried to make something more visual and approachable. Basically actual landing page. A few hours later, [portfolio.kindl.work](https://portfolio.kindl.work/) was live. *I'm curious how it feels as a first encounter. Is it better than sending someone to the full archive?* ![[new-web-screen.jpg]] --- ### Back to the Host **I went back to the Host this week.** On the software side, I merged the puppet mode, adaptive walking, and autonomous navigation into a single unified sketch. Updated the OSC controller, added servo verification at startup, fixed the jiggle that happened on every motion start/stop, and wired in a contact state machine that tracks each leg's ground interaction. The robot also builds its own spatial map now during autonomous mode. --- ### "Life Extension" But after all this development and testing, the conclusion is pretty clear: the current hardware doesn't collect enough *useful* information about the environment. Navigation and terrain adaptation are still *limited by what the robot can actually sense, not by the software.* That’s why I feel the urge to come up with a new design and implement the hardware from scratch. Right now, I’m mostly thinking about some kind of docking and charging system, which is probably the biggest challenge of the project. If that works, multiple 'Guests' could *persist in a gallery space over long periods,* and the **axioms** of the project would finally make practical sense; *Robots optimizing for energy, sharing resources, developing behavior over time.* Something like *belly-contact dock* (as seen below on [ANYmal](https://robotsguide.com/robots/anymal?video=4) robot) seems to be the most reliable option. Pogo pins and concentric copper rings on the robot's underside, designed for ±20 mm positioning accuracy. I'm also looking at lidar options (RPLIDAR C1 looks like the best fit) and ground contact sensing for the feet, to get more safer with overall navigation. ![[anymal_docking.jpg]] > [Life Extension: An Autonomous Docking Station for Recharging Quadrupedal Robots](https://scispace.com/pdf/life-extension-an-autonomous-docking-station-for-recharging-4gx05pqaju.pdf) --- Recently I leaked the new visual identity I've been building for [Pro_Story](https://www.instagram.com/pro_story_uh/) gallery. If you'd like to see some motion graphics in action: [1](https://vimeo.com/1175270946/0616c0f16e?fl=ip&fe=ec), [2](https://vimeo.com/1175270993/ff7afee345?fl=ip&fe=ec), [3](https://vimeo.com/1175271043/b511484a80?fl=ip&fe=ec). ![[pro_story_wide.jpg]] --- ![[spomenik-srb-1.jpg]] ![[spomenik-srb-0.jpg]] > [Spomenik hrabrima, Ostra, Serbia](https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/ostra). Miodrag Živković, 1969. Aluminum monolith with stylized human faces, next to the St. Petka church.