otaviogood

vor 27 Tagendiscuss

FWIW, I tried the prototype. It's very real. I scanned my hand and arm. It showed realtime images of slices of my hand as I dipped my hand in the water. Really amazing IMO. I think this will be a game changer when it comes out. It's just so easy to scan yourself.

otaviogood

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

for an introduction to the CAD software, Kicad, which this project uses, I really liked "Shine on you crazy Kicad": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMW9ohCbcik&t=27s It takes you from basics to buying a PCB from the manufacturer.

otaviogood

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Like many have said, start with Arduino-like boards + servos. You can get servo driver boards that let you plug in multiple servos to your Arduino without power problems. Get those from Adafruit. Then you can graduate to the "bus" style servos like Feetech if you want to load up on servos.

If you want to learn to make PCBs, this tutorial shows you how to design them in open source software and then get them made cheaply (highly recommend): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlDOnSHkX2c

Get a CAD program like Onshape (I love Onshape). Learn how to use it to design 3d printed components. Get a 3d printer. Maybe Bambu Lab. Now you should be able to make nice form factors for your robots. If you want to graduate from 3d printing to Aluminum, then you can send your designs to a place like PCBWay or JLCPCB and get the aluminum parts reasonably cheap.

At some point when you want to make a more "real" robot, read this guy's thesis and try to understand almost all of it: A low cost modular actuator for dynamic robots https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/118671 It goes over so many things that are useful, like types of actuators, how they're designed, controlled, etc. I wish I had read that earlier. Then if you want to make something like that, I highly highly recommend MJBots. https://mjbots.com/

Make something amazing!!!

otaviogood

letztes Jahrdiscuss

You might be reading into it too much. I think the originals were just random pieces of different kinds of paper. Graph paper, yellow lined, paper, blank white paper... I don't remember exactly, but I think the copies could be special paper with a colored backside so they would know which way was up really easily for the scanning process.

otaviogood

letztes Jahrdiscuss

DARPA scanned the shreds. The funny thing is, they didn't want to shred the original paper, so first they photocopied the paper in a high quality color copier, shredded it, and scanned it. And that's where the little yellow dots came from. :D

otaviogood

letztes Jahrdiscuss

Me and my team used these yellow tracking dots to reconstruct shredded documents for a DARPA shredder challenge over a decade ago. You can see our program highlight the dots as we reconstruct the shredded docs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzZDhyrjdVo Thanks to that, we were able to win by a large margin. :)

otaviogood

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

This is much more interesting if you see the animations. https://x.com/jaschasd/status/1756930242965606582

otaviogood

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

‘1984 is 1 token. 1884 is 2 tokens.’

I would be surprised if they use this tokenization still as it’s not math friendly.

otaviogood

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Where do you see the room for improvement that gets you to much faster speeds? Also I love the single file to do everything. :)

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