Duck

learning, building, having fun :)

[Duck @ducklin404]

Yo, so I've been working on ORB-SLAM3 and checked everything, but it genuinely can't handle low-texture environments, which is exactly what we're targeting. Spent over a week on it.

If I can't make it work or find a replacement, we might have to drop the project.

[Duck @ducklin404]

just found out iphone automatically corrects lens distortion on frames so I don't need to calibrate for it in ORB-SLAM3. not sure if that's ideal but hey, one less thing to worry about

[Duck @ducklin404]

Yo, why is orb slam 3 docs keep switching between mintlify and deep wiki

[Duck @ducklin404]

finally got ORB-SLAM3 running on the EuRoC dataset. took longer than i'd like to admit

[Duck @ducklin404]

looked into SLAM libraries, LSD-VO vs ORB-SLAM3.

ORB-SLAM3 wins for us. both are solid but ORB-SLAM3 has a more complete mapping system, loop closure, map merging, multi-map support. just feels like the right fit for what we're building.

spun up a running example, clean!

[Duck @ducklin404]

Been playing around with Unix sockets to get C++ and Rust talking to each other, honestly works really well. One handles the heavy processing, the other deals with networking.

Curious what other people use to bridge between languages, what’s your go-to?

[Duck @ducklin404]

Take of the day: every time I schedule a vague task, I end up scrolling.

Because when the time comes, I don’t know where to start.

If we can’t jump straight into a task, we didn’t plan it. We just put it on the calendar.

5 minutes breaking tasks down saves hours of wandering.

[Duck @ducklin404]

just built my landing page around an idea i couldn't stop thinking about, what do you think?

[Duck @ducklin404]

ONNX just saved me from the most cursed setup imaginable.

I was about to spawn a whole Python subprocess just to get a PyTorch wrapper running in C++. Yes, really.

Turns out you can load and run models directly in C++. No Python babysitting required. Absolute W.

[Duck @ducklin404]

P.S: the demo shows a single object so it’s easier to understand (and draw), but the goal is full coverage: multiple objects, terrain, and beyond.

[Duck @ducklin404]

Hi, long time no post 👋

Excited to share my next project: SEEN.

The idea: whether it’s a person or a drone that sees something, if you’ve been seen by one, you’ve been seen by everyone.

No more blind spots. If someone else sees something, you see it too.

More soon. 👁️

[Duck @ducklin404]

Wplace is out now.
View the art currently on your sky here: https://t.co/xze1jvsfDg

[Duck @ducklin404]

Just saw a post saying it would be cool if we can do AR of https://t.co/ah6pv6KhxW on the sky, so here we go!

[Duck @ducklin404]

When working on chess engine, found this really valuable here for diversify opeining

https://t.co/VVSF0bRZ1m

[Duck @ducklin404]

I'm back to an old project, making a chess engine

[Duck @ducklin404]

Just launched A Silent Pwn on Product Hunt! Not sure if it’s the perfect fit, but check it out:

https://t.co/AsA354XZLQ

[Duck @ducklin404]

making my first video with this style

[Duck @ducklin404]

Just wrapped up trimming 16 hours of footage down to a single hour, my back (and, uh, other areas) are feeling it.

Massive props to anyone who grinds through that kind of edit so we can binge on fresh YouTube vids.

[Duck @ducklin404]

My take today: AI isn’t always crunching data & “learning.” Sometimes it’s just a fancy search algorithm doing its thing.

[Duck @ducklin404]

Next project: learn AI and make a chess AI model!