Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠

we find the best builders first and put them on. hundreds in the crew. makerspaces: sf q4 2026, austin q1 2027. founding sponsor spots open. dm us.

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

i'm obsessed with these MIT Maker Portfolios

this is the best one i've ever seen. this is real engineering.

how does he only have 3 followers?

Ethan built:

01. omni-directional wheels / swerve modules

02. a mechanical integrator that does calculus with moving parts

03. a polar plotter that can draw all sorts of wild patterns

04. a modded Ender 3 that he turned into a CoreXY claw machine

05. a cycloidal gearbox

06. a 5-axis 3D printer and slicer inspired by Joshua Bird's 4-axis design

now he's working on a compact, battery-powered, ultra-portable expanding 3D printer

a body of work like this usually takes a full team years

Ethan did it before college

this guy is an absolute machine

if anyone deserves more support, it’s him

[Ethan Gao @ga0_lab]

I built this portable 3d printer. it folds flat, and a scissor lift lets it expand to print big objects. It's CoreXY, uses fishing line for the motion system, has a direct drive extruder, and the option of storing an 8-hour print time battery or an entire filament spool inside

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@majamediaco What's your favorite thing from Nin? I've only read her preface to Otto Rank's Art and the Artist.

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@ErenChenAI 😂 this is awesome!

[Eren Chen @ErenChenAI]

A new Chinese robotics startup, Light Origin, just showcased an impressive single-policy locomotion system.

Even with one or both legs restrained, the robot remains mobile by hopping or crawling.

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@0xJirachi Absolutely

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@0xJirachi Just hit the nail on the head man.

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@0xJirachi Preach

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@DanielleFong Woof! Woof!

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@averagearc 😂🤣 my bad 😂 you gotta give my boy his teeth

This is my bet

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@kenwheeler @justalexoki Same

[Jacob Zietek @JacobZietek]

generalist's hardware team doesn't get enough credit for their creativity. compliance is in the tool mount. qdd-like contact tolerance, harmonic drive precision, and the deflection is readable on camera because of how it's shaped and colored. no f/t sensor per tool, so cool

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

Introducing Eggmerican Eggbedded

[Harsh Gupta @hgupt3]

We trained a dexterous hand 🤖 from internet-scale human videos 📺 with ZERO real-world robot or teleoperation data

We pair a world model 🌎 that predicts task intent with a generalist sensorimotor policy ✋ trained sim2real to zero-shot fulfill ANY intent

Introducing LUCID: Learning Embodiment-Agnostic Intent Models from Unstructured Human Videos for Scalable Dexterous Robot Skill Acquisition 🧵

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@Polymarket @i2cjak

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@Xaraphim The sandal that leaves a lasting impression.

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@hthieblot Thoughts? @kylecompute

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@Kyrannio 😂

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

Hamethyst would be such a pretty name for a daughter

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

@anielizarmly Lmfao just saw this

[Damian @ The Lighthouse 🤖💡🏠 @TheLighthouse]

Hamethyst would be such a pretty name for a daughter

[Damian Player @damianplayer]

Scott Wu says coding was never the point, the interface is.

humans telling computers what to do. and the most natural interface anyone has is texting.

so Cognition went and bought Poke, the agent that lives in iMessage. 100M messages in three months.

Scott and Walden were early angels in it. this was likely the plan for a while.

makes more sense once you hear him lay it out.