Building with agents, local AI, open models Automation, Robotics, Voice Thinking about post-work society... - hitly.net - github.com/dcolley/tourbillo…
Beaconsfield, UK
- Tweets 6,147
- Following 419
- Followers 342
- Likes 68,983
Derek Colley retweeted
text-to-cad plugin extension is now live on codex!
- generate 3D models as STEP, STL, 3MF, or GLB
- DFM for printing, sheet metal, CNC, injection moulding
- connect to fab services like bambu and sendcutsend
100% open source and free, runs locally inside the codex desktop app
48
119
1,319
74,335
This is correct ;)
Animated hands should have 4 fingers
(Yes, incl thumb!)
Boston Dynamics unveiled a new hand for Atlas: four fingers, 13 DoF. The team decided not to add a pinky.
Elon Musk previously pointed out, while discussing Optimus on a podcast, that losing your pinky would noticeably reduce overall hand dexterity.
Boston Dynamics, however, says a fifth finger would mean three more actuators. Its CTO had the team spend a day with their pinky and ring fingers taped together. They decided the extra dexterity wasn’t worth the added bulk, cost and risk of failure.
Its four-finger hand already lets Atlas reorient objects in its grasp, recover a slipping grip, and hold tools while pulling their triggers.
22
Derek Colley retweeted
How do I say this...
You don't want to use AI when you can reduce something to a deterministic solution.
What do I mean?
You don't want to use AI to fill in fields in loan documents or operating agreements.
Instead you want to use AI to build the software that does it for you. And then you don't need the AI tool again for that task.
It's a subtle difference, but a really important one.
80
44
693
34,321
The @TourbillonHQ family is growing...
CEO (agent) requests a new Ops agent.
Tourbillon will be building tourbillon going forward...
1
54
Derek Colley retweeted
If ai can create it end to end, you're not gonna be able to sell it
That's almost definitionally true at this point, crazy some of you can't see that
254
90
1,577
131,090
Where do you hang out?
- also known as doom-scrolling...
Lately I get better content (signal-noise ratio) from AI or Robotics section that "For you"
1
20
Derek Colley retweeted
Here are some of the behind the scenes for the F.02 Decommission
To be clear: we actually trained our robots to jump autonomously, shipped them to Finland, and had them leap into a vat of molten steel
499
616
5,540
744,615
I've had my Weber Q100 bbq for 20+ years...
10 years ago the foot rusted, so I printed a small repair part.
Finally have to replace the gas burner. I'll be keeping it, it's a great little bbq.
No affiliation, just a happy customer.
@weberbbquk
1
40
Derek Colley retweeted
Highly recommend to watch the whole thing and pay a special attention to the top-right of the screen.
49
12
353
45,790
Derek Colley retweeted
This Pocket-Sized Quadruped #Robot Packs Big Tech Into a Tiny Frame
via @ZappyZappy7
#AI #Robotics #Engineering #Innovation #Technology
4
20
10,883
Derek Colley retweeted
Introducing Wispr-flow like AI Dictation, BUT using local AI
Send messages, Speak ideas into your iPhone, convert your speech to text instantly
All done locally, so no cloud involved, giving you unlimited words :)
I'm a solo developer trying hard to change the landscape of AI dictation :)
1st round of TestFlight was a SHOUTING success!!
Round 2 is open for everyone who missed it
Comment below for access↓
I'm going to be real with y'all for a minute, iOS dictation apps only make sense if they're not annoying to use.
Clunky. Typos. Slow. Bad keyboard.
I'm a solo developer trying hard to make iOS dictation actually fun to use.
Since my Mac dictation app got a lot of love on X,
I'm sending out a testflight for iOS.
Local. Private. Fast.
If you're on the search for a good dictation app,
comment below for access!
190
19
263
39,767
I'm learning LOADS by implementing features in Tourbillon.
I'm using qwen3.8-flash-next to chat about my code and design.
Take "Grok Bot desktop feature" for example...
BrowserUse and Workspace (code execution) are already available to agents - these are well defined tools and features.
The biggest aha comes from user participation
- e.g. user takeover screen to enter password
That's why we need an actual desktop!
[qwen and I] we seem to have landed on @kasmweb Workspace Images for the agent desktop... watch this space ;)
1
39
Eren, please call me?!
I need to know what you were smoking when you got this idea...?
Can you imaging the game:
- think of the weirdest animals to mate into a new robot form-factor...
- ok, tigger and tinkerbell..!!
- ha, ha... um, wait. That might actually work.
HopTo’s Hop-1 is a hybrid hopping-and-flying robot built for rough terrain.
It looks weird at first, but the logic is actually pretty smart. Flying all the time burns a ton of energy just fighting gravity, so they let the robot spend most of its time bouncing on a passive spring instead.
The rotors mainly steer, put back the energy lost on each hop, and only fully take over when the robot actually needs to fly.
HopTo says hopping uses around 25% of the energy of continuous flight.
So the whole idea is pretty simple: stay on the ground as much as possible, and only fly when you have to.
47
I talk with Product Managers all day...
The PMs have access to various specialists
- Test
- Dev
- Ops
- Sales
- Finance
- Mailbot
That's my day...
31
Nice, I can mount this on my rover...
1
1
29
Went to a restaurant recently, they had Xmas themed menus already..!!! FFS
If you're working in AI, any time unplugged fills you with dread.
FOMO is real 😨
31
Derek Colley retweeted
One effect of AI is to sever enjoyment from admiration.
Hitherto, if one took pleasure in a song, a poem, a work of scholarship, one was at the same time appreciating the human talent and ingenuity behind it.
Now, encountering some impressive output does not automatically entail admiration, but instead a suspicion about provenance. I find that tragic. I'm realizing now, all too late, how important that emotion of admiration for the brilliance of my fellow man was to my life satisfaction.
15
44
331
13,036