Tim Smith

They had sent out a salesman. He’s like, “You are a moron. You’re a software guy with soft hands. You don’t know what you’re doing.”

L7 @ GOOG (Pixel Camera)

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VelocityPnP: pick and place software for @OpuloInc machines that's actually fun to use. Designed for headless/agentic operation but it has a nice web UI as well.

Will be releasing on github (Apache 2.0 license) next week. HMU if you have a LumenPnP v3.1 or v4.0 and are interested in being a guinea pig.

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Ok, this is actually starting to come together

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@gak_pdx "As God intended"

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@MrBitmonkey @gak_pdx Lol gonna need an example image

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@10_X_eng They are pretty tidy but the spindle power is laughable (1/4 HP IIRC)

Very full featured for a desktop unit though. Now when I see mills without a tool setter and probe I get the ick 🤣

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I started cooking up something else - CNC setup, control, and monitoring with a human-friendly web UI and a headless agent-ready CLI/API. Initially targeting the Carvera Air (pictured, with SMW fixture plate and mod vise v3).

[Tim Smith @timbot]

VelocityPnP: pick and place software for @OpuloInc machines that's actually fun to use. Designed for headless/agentic operation but it has a nice web UI as well.

Will be releasing on github (Apache 2.0 license) next week. HMU if you have a LumenPnP v3.1 or v4.0 and are interested in being a guinea pig.

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@10_X_eng I like it! It's able to do PCB milling, and take some pretty decent cuts into aluminum if you have a good workholding setup. I use the SMW fixture plate and modular vise

https://t.co/XV2AeDAiZF

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Single flute life is the best life

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@Ddddarren @dirtman 🤣🤣🤣

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This video is a "fly-around" inside a gaussian splat model of my shop.

It took a lot of tokens to dial in all the params and settings, but after two weeks and many tokens we've arrived at a usable/useful shop model. It takes ~8 hours to "train" this model on my Spark DGX.

The captures were taken on a Turtlebot4, which is based on the Roomba i3 series, but adds lidar and depth camera. Not bad for a vacuum cleaner.

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Gaussian splatting: two parts science, one part nightmare fuel

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@dirtman 😅

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@dirtman It was rough going initially but turned out pretty nice!

I'll bring a robot up to AMR at some point over the next couple months and we'll see how it does on a shop 10x the size

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@karpovlabs Thankyou!

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@joshu @mehul @maticrobots For sure, just wanted to toss some compliments Matic's way since you @'d Mehul 😁

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I'll take a look!

From what I hear, @maticrobots / @mehul are next-level on this sort of thing. Custom software stack on (what looks like?) proper local NVidia compute and probably a nicely dialed in camera system.

My setup used a Pi4 + OAK-D lite + offline (DGX) compute. Not good enough for real-time!

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@boxcardavid That things looks cool as hell

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@troy_mccann This is an incredibly hard concept for a lot of people (especially very smart people who enjoy their "craft") to digest, and that manifests in all kinds of different ways

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@lukebayes Don't be the Vaguepost King, name some! 😅

I think the main advantages of dupont are breadboard compatibility and that it's easy to creat 1/2/4/n-way cables/jumpers easily

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@troy_mccann Congratulations!

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@swkkadjo @ga0_lab +1 on the FA-400

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@ga0_lab Looks awesome!

What're the trade-offs with this motion scheme vs mechanum wheels? More actuators but less friction waste?

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Another two

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These may look like four vibe-coded PCBs, and they are, but they also have something else in common...