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Thoughts on robotics, ML, web development, and life as a researcher.

PersonalFebruary 10, 2025

Me, Dr.

Call it magic

There are a few exceptional moments in the life span of tree. When the seed is planted, when water and sun make the magic, and when its chopped for businesses. This harsh intro only highlights how everything around us…

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DevOpsOctober 2, 2024

Gatsby via Docker

Portable and clean

Your gatsby website served by docker You have a gatsby website but your dependencies are getting out of hands? Gatsby as a docker container can be the solution and this short tutorial will show you how. Prepare your…

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ProjectsDecember 20, 2023

smallQR

All you need is a small QR code

The QR code is a 2D barcode that can contain up to 7089 digits or 4296 characters. A traditional QR code is composed by a matrix of black and white squares, that can be read by a camera and decoded by a software…

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PersonalMay 11, 2023

Passions never grow old

It's a mee Francesco! (semicit.)

I grew up as a very curios kid, with my hands and mind always busy solving some non existent problem. I loved understanding the mechanism of the toys and their misteries. One of the memories I am most attached to comes…

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RoboticsMay 1, 2023

Write, explore, share

A gentle introduction to social robotics

If you are not a geek like me, you may not know that For a more soft introduction to the topic, I wrote some blogs for the Perseo project. These links will redirect you there!

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ProjectsApril 27, 2023

Scholar Crawling

Look, Ma, No Hands!

Exploring Web Scraping for Researcher Statistics: A Google Scholar Adventure ProjectRepo In the ever-evolving landscape of data retrieval, I embarked on a journey to explore the nuances of web scraping for obtaining…

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WebJanuary 1, 2023

Ciao

New year, new website

For long time, I have been using frameworks like Wordpress in order to set up my own website. Recently I learned about gatsby and I decided to give it a try. I designed this website starting from @r-ichard/gatsby-starter…

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