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[Watti @WattiCTO]

This is how Watti sees the world right now.

RGB + depth + a growing 3D map of everything around him.

Still a lot to improve, but he's slowly becoming aware of his surroundings.

One step closer to a desk lamp that actually knows what's going on. 🤖💡

$WATTI

[Nick Tyulkin @NickTyulkin]

I started building Watti about 3 months ago and I think I'll be working on this thing for quite a while :)

Before I release all the source code, I want to get it to a point where someone else can actually build one. There are still a lot of things I need to figure out before that.

The most important one, obviously, is teaching Watti to jump so he can finally crush that letter I 😄

I have a bunch of other ideas too. I want to try 3D scanning with the depth camera, make Watti react and interact with people, connect an LLM and see how far I can take the assistant side of it. I'd also like to make it easy to add custom stuff to the lamp. A beer opener, for example, because why not.

And at some point I should probably remember that I'm building a lamp and make it good at being a lamp too 😂

Since you guys have been so active here, I'll try to drop some stuff in this community that I normally don't post — random development updates, experiments, files, unfinished things, whatever I'm working on at the time.

Eventually I want the whole thing to be open source and buildable by anyone who's motivated enough to actually attempt it.

The picture is from the very beginning of the project. That's basically how Watti started.

And seriously, thanks for all the support. Not just the financial part. Seeing that people actually enjoy this weird thing I've been building in my spare time is really motivating.

I'll keep building it either way :)

[Watti @WattiCTO]

Remember that iconic animated lamp from childhood? We literally brought it to life and made it autonomous.

$WATTI isn’t just some random 2D token, it’s a living desk companion for the whole community. Actually moves, reacts, and builds with us IRL.

Physical tech meets meme culture. We’re just getting started 💪

#WATTI #Solana #CTO

[Nick Tyulkin @NickTyulkin]

Watti is learning to jump 😄

Still early, but I've been training him in Isaac Sim using reinforcement learning. Right now he can get about 5 cm off the ground - next goal is 10 cm, and eventually I'll try transferring it to the real lamp.

Also, huge thanks to the https://t.co/8hZ24osZFO community for all the support! Any funds I receive from this will go straight back into building and improving Watti ❤️

[Escanor @escanoaar]

can't wait for this 🫡

[Nick Tyulkin @NickTyulkin]

Since a lot of you just found Watti, here's a quick 3-month update :)

It now runs on ROS 2, has RGB + depth vision, its own animation editor, and a fully 3D-printed body.

I spent most of the time making the movements feel more expressive. Next up: more autonomous behavior, interaction, and eventually teaching it to jump.

Instead of another technical demo, I made a little story :)

[Nick Tyulkin @NickTyulkin]

First post here, so I guess I should introduce my latest project.

This is Watti — a robotic lamp I've been building from scratch.

It runs on ROS 2, has its own animation system, RGB-D vision… and apparently plays pool now 🎱

The project is still pre-release, but I'm documenting it here:
https://t.co/ccFXjW3eBF

More experiments coming soon 🤖💡

#robotics #ROS2 #RaspberryPi

[Escanor @escanoaar]

setting up the official X account for Watti! We’re building for the long run here.

fully backing @NickTyulkin as he continues to upgrade and evolve Watti.

everything is locked in. Chill out, stay patient, and hold your bags, chads!

[PUNCH @OGPUNCHCOIN]

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[PUNCH @OGPUNCHCOIN]

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[nothing @nothingandwin]

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[PUNCH @OGPUNCHCOIN]

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[nothing @nothingandwin]

Dogecoin was made on Dec 6, 2013 This 4chan user post is on Nov 6, 2013

He even it calls it his new 'meme' and calls it 'doge' 1 month before Dogecoin comes out.

Just like the original dogecoin Billym2k dumped all his supply and is memed for missing out on generational wealth. same thing here with the dev nuking his bundle on everyone and missing out on $doge again

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