Techphant

Full-stack wireless tech for IoT & UAVs. 100% self-developed TPUNB® LPWAN | RF • LoRa • Wi-Fi • BLE modules | DTUs • gateways • ground stations

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

Not pretty yet. But it talks. 🎙

Fresh off the bench: a new wireless intercom prototype.

Two boxes, a lot of wires, plenty of debugging…
and finally, voice going from one side to the other.

The enclosure can wait.
Getting the link right comes first.

#WirelessCommunication #EmbeddedSystems #RF #IoT #Hardware #Intercom

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

“Let’s just test the wireless link.”

Famous last words. 😂

A few hours later: motors, a flight controller, wires everywhere… and somehow we have a flying prototype.

DIY engineering at its finest.

#ESP32 #DIY #Wireless #EmbeddedSystems #Maker #IoT

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

You know it’s a good day when the gateway shelf starts looking like this. 👀

Another batch getting ready for customers.

When gateways start lining up like this, it usually means one thing:
another real IoT project is moving from testing to deployment.

Long-range wireless. More devices connected. More projects going live. 📡

Building an IoT project of your own? Let’s talk.

#IoT #WirelessCommunication #IndustrialIoT #IoTGateway

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

Yesterday, this spider was getting a new wireless brain.

Today… it dances. 🕷

Its movement commands are now running through a TPUNB wireless control link.

Walk. Turn. Stop. Dance.
Commands go in. The robot moves.

Simple idea. Very fun result.

And yes, we watched this way too many times.

#IoT #WirelessCommunication #EmbeddedSystems #ESP32 #Robotics #TPUNB

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

If the signal looks clean, someone probably made the bench look messy first. 😎📡

Soldering, flashing, tweaking, testing…
and finally, a 433 MHz signal exactly where we want it.

This is pretty much a normal day at Techphant.

Messy desk. Clean signal. We’ll take that.

#IoT #WirelessCommunication #RF #EmbeddedSystems #433MHz #TPUNB

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

This spider is about to lose its Wi-Fi.

And somehow, that’s an upgrade. 🕷️🕷️🕷️

We’re giving it a long-range wireless control link and testing how far real-world robot control can actually go.

Walk. Turn. Stop. React.
From way farther away.

How far? We’ll find out. 📡

#Robotics #IoT #Wireless #ESP32 #EmbeddedSystems #LongRange

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

Bench test looked fine, so we took it outside.

Yes, that’s tape. No, I’m not apologizing for the cable management .

Just a Pixhawk, a 2.4 GHz telemetry link, and the usual question:
how far can we push it before something starts complaining?

This is the part of DIY drones I actually enjoy — build it, test it, find the weird problem, repeat.

What would you test first on this setup?

#DIYDrone #Pixhawk #Telemetry #FPV #UAV

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

Everyone’s waiting for the perfect humanoid robot.
Meanwhile, a $399 little duck might sneak into our homes first. 😂

Cheap, open-source, hackable — honestly, this might be how home robotics actually starts.

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

Home robots are coming. The first ones in will be the small ones that are safe around kids and pets.

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics just opened pre-orders for Microduck, a $399 biped.

25cm, under 800g, 15 motors, a camera, a small LiDAR, two IMUs, and an articulated beak that picks things up.

Ships with 7 pre-trained behaviors including walking, kicking, and roller skating.

Open on GitHub under Apache-2.0: the SDK, the simulator, and the RL training pipeline. So you can teach it new tricks.

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

Robotics people call it “sim-to-real.”
IoT people call it “welcome to the real world.” 😂

Latency, sensors, power, connectivity, hardware variance…
reality always finds a way in.

[Praveen Kumar Verma @Alacritic_Super]

The coolest part of Microduck might not be the robot. It's how it learns to move.

This repo shows the full reinforcement learning pipeline behind Microduck.

The robot learns in simulation using MuJoCo, PPO and GPU-based training, then the trained policy is exported to ONNX and deployed on the real robot.

But the real challenge is sim-to-real.

The simulation models things like actuator behavior, battery voltage, command delays, friction and even gear backlash. That helps make the learned policy work when it moves from simulation to the physical robot.

The repo includes policies for walking, fall recovery, sitting, standing, kicking, ground picking and even roller skating.

Train in simulation. Test the behavior. Export the policy. Run it on a real robot.

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

4,096 pixels responding in real time. what another applications could this unlock?

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

What if you could control 4,096 lights just by talking to them?

We brought that idea to life at #IOTE2026 in Shenzhen.

Wireless communication underneath.
AI interaction on top.
And 4,096 pixels reacting in real time.

This is where IoT starts becoming a little more fun.

📍 Booth 10A41
#IoT #AIoT #Wireless

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

Everyone talks about how far a drone can fly.

But in real-world operations, there’s another question that matters just as much:

Can it stay connected the whole way?

4 modems and 15 antennas show just how seriously that problem is being taken.

Range is impressive. Reliability is what makes it usable.

#Drones #UAV #DataLink #WirelessCommunication

[Flock @flocksafety]

A drone that loses signal mid-flight isn't just a problem. It's a public safety liability.

We built Alpha with 4 cellular modems and 15 antennas, and we continually test it in an anechoic chamber.

Anechoic chambers absorb radio waves, giving engineers a controlled environment to test range, interference rejection, signal integrity, and frequency performance.

If it works here, it works when the mission depends on it.

See Alpha in action now and learn more.

https://t.co/csxDJ2eJrE

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

Maybe the future of drone piloting is… not piloting.

The drone flies.
The human supervises.
The link keeps both sides in the loop.

That’s a pretty big shift.

#Drones #UAV #FPV #DroneTech #DataLink

[Chester @chesterzelaya]

Drones will fly themselves better than humans can

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

Everyone wants to give AI a bigger brain.

Meanwhile, the tomato just wants the WiFi to stop dropping. 🍅

That’s the funny thing about physical AI:

The model can be brilliant.
But sensors still need to talk, networks still need to work, and machines still need to listen.

AI makes the decision.

Connectivity makes it real.
#AI #Machinelearning #iot #Physicalai

[Ronald van Loon @Ronald_vanLoon]

Anthropic’s Claude #AI #Autonomously Grows Tomatoes for 100+ Days in Groundbreaking Experiment
by @d33v33d0

#ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

We spent years asking how much computing we can squeeze into a wearable.

Maybe the real question now is:

How much data can these glasses keep moving before the battery taps out?

AI gets the hype.
Connectivity, latency and power might decide who actually wins.
#ai #IOT

[Fabrizio Bustamante Escudero @Fabriziobustama]

The next computer may not look like a computer at all. 👓⚡

Look inside these Meta-branded smart glasses: cameras, sensors, electronics and computing hardware compressed into a frame that still looks remarkably ordinary.

That’s the real revolution in wearables.

Technology is moving from something we carry…

to something we simply wear.
The smartphone put a computer in our pocket.

Smart glasses could put one directly in our field of view.

Would you wear them every day? 👇

#ArtificialIntelligence #SmartGlasses #WearableTech #FutureTech #AI #5G #IoT #Tech #Technology #innovation

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[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

Once cars are stored like inventory, parking starts looking a lot more like warehouse automation.The hard part probably isn’t lifting the cars. It’s scheduling them.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A multi-level system that stacks cars vertically. Drivers leave their vehicle on a ground platform; motors lift or rotate it into an upper slot. On return, the system brings the car back down automatically.

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

@sciencegirl Vertical parking solves the space problem. But does it create a throughput problem?

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

@abc7newsbayarea Amazon said same-day delivery, the drone heard same-day diving🤣

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

Open-source digital FPV is getting interesting.

If OpenHD keeps improving, what would actually make you switch from DJI / Walksnail / HDZero?

Range? Latency? Reliability? Price? Or something else entirely?

[Chester @chesterzelaya]

OpenHD, an open-source project that turns off-the-shelf Wi-Fi chips into hardware for long-range, low-latency video transmission

It holds spot #7 for long-distance flights, with a previous world record of 55 km!

https://t.co/hQqgViYYOJ

[Techphant @Techphant_hk]

@haydendevs Okay, this is the kind of “this was fun” that makes everyone else want to build one too 😂