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7 years in industrial automation.
Now building PIF — predictive failure detection for real machines.
Sharing every step. 📡

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Cans: 1 — Robot: 0 😂

First real pick & place test on my 5-axis arm.
Let's just say we're still negotiating.

Every fail = data. Back to calibration.

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Built the arm.
Built the gripper.
Now it pours. 🤖

No kit. No shortcuts. 100% scratch built in my workshop.

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Built the arm. Built the gripper. Now it pours. 🤖
No kit. No shortcuts. 100% scratch built in my workshop.
#Robotics #BuildInPublic #RobotArm

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Warm up before the first grip test. The clamp is almost ready.

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This is not a lab setup. It's a prototype rig built to produce real data — because real data is the only kind that matters. #BuildInPublic #ESP32 #SensorBuild #IoT #IndustrialAutomation #PredictiveMaintenance #HardwareDev #Maker

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One person. 16 hours a week. Side project budget. Five months. It works. The project doesn't need to be finished to be worth showing. #BuildInPublic #ESP32 #SensorBuild #IoT #IndustrialAutomation #PredictiveMaintenance #HardwareDev #Maker

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Every post is a promise to yourself that you're not done yet.

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Most "build in public" content is still a curated version of success. Failures get posted after they're already solved.

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Five months ago I made a decision: build in public. Not when it was ready. Not when it was impressive enough. From day one.

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One prevented breakdown pays for the entire system.
That's the pitch. That's the math. That's PIF.
→ Follow @BuildSensor for the full build in public journey.
#PIF #BuildInPublic #IoT #PredictiveMaintenance #Automation #ESP32 #WarehouseAutomation #CONSILRED

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This is PIF. Fully assembled.
Not a render. Not a prototype. A real machine built to generate real failure data.
The test rig spins. The sensors listen. The data flows.

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This wasn't built in a lab.
It was built in a garage. In 16 hours a week. Between managing 100+ customer sites and being a single parent.
Every failure documented. Every fix public.

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One node monitors one component.
Ten nodes monitor a full machine.
A hundred nodes monitor an entire plant.
No limits. No compromises. Your facility exactly as it's built.

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PIF puts a sensor node directly on the component.
Dual IMUs. Stereo MEMS microphones. ESP32-S3.
It listens 24/7. It learns what normal sounds like. And it flags when something changes.

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Industrial machines don't fail silently.
They warn you — weeks in advance.
Vibration patterns change. Acoustic signatures shift. Power draw creeps up.
Most plants have no system listening. So they find out when production stops.

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Old footage. The PIF test rig standing for the first time.
Base meets column. Two pieces of steel welded by hand — aligned without a jig, fitted without a factory.
It stood perfectly on the first try.
#PIF #BuildInPublic #Welding #IoT #PredictiveMaintenance #Engineering #TestRig

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First power-on of the PIF test rig electronics.
Magic smoke.
Hardware development isn't a straight line — it's a series of failures that tell you exactly what you got wrong.
I fixed it. The rig runs now.
#PIF #BuildInPublic #HardwareDevelopment #IoT #ESP32 #FailFast #Engineering

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Part 3 of the PIF test rig build.
The base is assembled.
This is the element that absorbs everything — two brushless motors, full mechanical load, real vibration.
If it moves, the data is noise. #PIF #BuildInPublic #Welding #IoT #PredictiveMaintenance #Engineering #TestRig

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Part 2 of the PIF test rig build.
The column is welded. Standing. Checked.
Every joint done by hand — because misalignment at this stage means corrupted data at the next.
#PIF #BuildInPublic #Welding #IoT #PredictiveMaintenance #Engineering #TestRig

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Part 1 of the PIF test rig build.
Sketch. Measure. Weld.
No factory. No team. No shortcuts.
Just a plan on paper and a cold garage. 🔧🔥
Part 2 coming soon → follow @BuildSensor
#PIF #BuildInPublic #Welding #IoT #PredictiveMaintenance #Engineering #TestRig