Eric Takei

Building at the edge of software, hardware, AI, robotics, and IoT. Founder. Ex-SF startup engineer. Sharing products, experiments, lessons, chiikawa and life.

[Eric Takei @ericaiengineer]

Physical AI:
Human spends 5 seconds perfectly aligning the box.
Robot spends 2 seconds picking it.
Everyone applauds the robot.
🤖📦👨

[Eric Takei @ericaiengineer]

A professional assistant knows exactly where to place the box for the robot #physical #staff

[Junghee Ryu @drjungheeryu]

If you’d like to see it in action… come join us at GTC Taipei!

#RLWRLD #RLDX #humanoid #RFM

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Yes, I've been learning Chinese on Duolingo!🦜

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好吃Dumplings!

[Eric Takei @ericaiengineer]

One of the funniest moments at today's GTC Taipei:

Jensen Huang gave a special shoutout to some of Taiwan's most important ecosystem partners:

🍉 Fruit Lady — where he famously signed an autograph in the restroom
🍲 Wang’s Tainan Cuisine — where his parents hold family dinners
🥢 Hua Niang Restaurant — where relatives gather for meals
🐷 Fu Ba Wang Pork Knuckle — one of Jensen's personal favorites
🍶 Yao Gu Zao Wei Restaurant — host of the legendary supplier banquet that probably led to billions of dollars in business

NVIDIA's Taiwan ecosystem runs on GPUs, semiconductors... and great food

[Eric Takei @ericaiengineer]

My easy card
kawaii

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Cosmos3 #gtc

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Openclaw

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High humidity...

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Made it to Taipei for GTC Taipei! 🇹🇼
Looking forward to seeing what's next in AI, robotics, and physical AI

[Eric Takei @ericaiengineer]

@rdotapps Good point.
In fact, I dropped XCLK all the way down to 2 MHz for this test, and the image became noticeably cleaner.
There’s still some noise left, but it definitely points toward clock coupling, power integrity, or grounding issues

[Eric Takei @ericaiengineer]

Camera bring-up day.
Image is noisy as hell :(
Possible suspects:
- insufficient decoupling
- bad PCB routing
- noisy power rail
- XCLK interference
- grounding disaster

Time to hunt the bug...!

#katally #contextsensor #prototyping

[Eric Takei @ericaiengineer]

Feels like we're in a rare window right now.
The boundaries between hardware and software are fading away, and the opportunity to create something genuinely new for people has never been bigger.

Trying not to waste it.

[Eric Takei @ericaiengineer]

Interesting...
If it runs Gemma4, that's great

[Google Gemma @googlegemma]

Introducing the newest Coral board, for efficient, on-device AI!

Check out the demos in the video:
- On-board speech translation
- Natural language controlling hardware
- Vision & sound generating music

[Eric Takei @ericaiengineer]

camera wouldn’t fit because of a tantalum capacitor

engineering decision:
remove capacitor

to be fair, it was just for brownout protection

the device still boots and the camera works!
#katally #prototyping #contextsensor