103 posts · era: The maker turn
3.4k words, ChatGPT dialogue on robot arms, post-work humans, stone-age→advanced gradient, fulfillment
whats the issue with robotic arms nowadays ChatGPT said: There are several challenges and limitations with robotic arms today, despite advancements in the field. Here are some of the major issues: High Cost Robotic arms, …
defold with gravity then fold; Bersch 2011 ref
Laundry folding problem from randomly located laundry in a container. In this setting, an robot arm actuator is capable of holding and handling clothes. How that is done is matter of another post or idea, but we focus on how we …
(ChatGPT4o AI generated) To imagine beings formed from metal evolving naturally, we must first identify key principles that would govern such life. This involves considering how metallic structures could achieve the same …
"robots will be called transformers" + 2 images
Transformer network architecture will be used by robots and will be called transformers. Some hint on “Whats coming up next!!!”
motion achieved; GitHub; video
So I was able to get some movement in the robot arm. I realized I had put wrong pulley shaft in the larger cycloidal gear, which I changed. These couple of days (in one sitting spanning 16-18 hours), I mostly lazily did the …
Assemble-Them-All (MIT); production-as-required
Tempororay not ready blog post: some refs: https://github.com/yunshengtian/Assemble-Them-All?tab=readme-ov-file https://assembly.csail.mit.edu/ Idea is to ask for a functional device, and that thing automatically manufactures it, …
last-human lab scenario; engineered companion; equipment list (Twist, CRISPR, Illumina, CELLINK); AI generated
AI generated: If this is indeed the reality—where you are the last human being in existence and tasked with navigating an empty world—your actions in an advanced laboratory are not just personal but also foundational for the …
photo log
Day 6-7 (day and night) mechanical assembly bare minimum after Day 4-5, it was After day 4 After day 3 after day 2 After day 1 Next steps: plan is to use bare minimum CAN interface with each stepper, let see how simple I can get …
robots imagined backwards through history to pre-Big-Bang (13 DALL-E images)
The idea of imagining robots in the past is a fascinating blend of historical revisionism and speculative fiction. It flips the typical futuristic narrative on its head, prompting questions about how robots might have shaped …
cycloid gears, NEMA magnets, tool list
Got arctos kit, parts are printed, see assembly guide , I started with an older version which was first to appear in the link, but soon it was corrected to proper version that I have printed : …
work outdoors; AR glasses instead of displays, gesture instead of keyboard
Typically, we utilize a desk for working on computers, while the same task is challenging when outside, or just in nature. Firstly, the system must be portable or have a constant power source. Nowadays at most places there is …
"abra-kadabra machine"; bioprinters links
When on Mars, the existing ecosystem of manufacturing on Earth will be too expensive to afford. For now, 3d printers on earth mostly are good for making small plastic toys or small-time use gadgets, or mini things. Many different …
23 DALL-E component images
Most weeks, for past 5 years, we have a board game community in which I play board games. They are quite different from experience from computer gaming, where in dense city one sits at home and plays with other people or the …
"I act as the agent… bringing out wishes and ideas other deserve"
We make what we can think of, we make what we are in the present moment. We collectively make what we collectively think of, we collectively make what we collectively are in the present moment. Soon as we learned mathematics, and …
World is getting overwhelming, ChatGPT does not help much, it keeps on giving dumb suggestions that are bound to fail, reality can be understood but is becoming rapidly engrossed with stuff that its harder to grasp, if it can be …
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Recently, on sale, I bought Bambu Lab A1 Combo printer, and by judging the quality, I also got another A1 mini printer. Just to help me for my project on Arctos ARM robotic kit that I have ordered. Here you can see printers …
chip+circuit+CAD+virtual test+deploy
Computer chip model, (CPU+GPU+TPU+Analog+LPU?anything matter can compute)+vicinity circuit model according to application+ design the machinery and surroundings with CAD+ system test under virtual world + system deploy in real …
"Generic MAKE-ANYTHING"; IN-HOUSE vs ON-PLANET; toolchain (EagleCAD, Fusion360, 3D/CNC/laser…); GPT 10-section lab list; his own wish-list (multiaxis CNC, PCB printer, electroplating, metal print, electron microscope, ovens, semiconductor room, cell engineering, cryo, graphene…); 19 images; "million years later… buildings as planets"
Imagine a future setting (or current reality, or past), where the in-house production has become the norm. Boasting of a “Generic MAKE-ANYTHING” concept. We reside on a planet with given resources. We transform these resources …
time as 5th dim; 0d→1d→2d→3d expansion; array-of-arrays; GPT on time travel
We look at time (or flow of current existence as one), we usually take time as the 4th dimension, but there are some things I experienced which I was not able to comprehend 4.5 years ago, but maybe if I believe in the 5th …
3D printer limits; coconut bottle grown vs made
Feeling of having the 3d printer is good, but it can only print limited materials, mostly plastics and polymers ( for those available on consumer level), while our world is surrounded by all kinds of elements, materials, …
actions = typing in the space of the world
Usually, we are very biased on what we think of taking actions, or typing, or navigating the decisions. All are the same things. To achieve something, we must take a set of actions, whether for example to make a 3d model using AI …
card trick; determinism; "I read my own blog"
Couple of weeks ago, a guy showed me magic, and it was not a trick, as we think of. He told me to think of a card, at first I thought 7 of something, then I changed to an unknown card not in the deck, but suddenly I chose King of …
mind dressed in beliefs→body→clothes→house→city; board games as trying on ideologies
“The person is a mind, but the mind has a physical body. The person is given a body, or dressed in a body. The mind is dressed in a body of a person, and that person again is dressed in the clothing, and the person is dressed in …
first vegetation image + GPT
The moment when there was only vegetation on the planet, and other forms of life were absent. Sun was then, and is now, has seen the growth of it all, grew it. “The scene you’ve described captures a pivotal moment in Earth’s …
EEG → LLM → actuators; AI takes over when human sleeps
Currently AI is a data driven model that is supposedly fixed in nature after learning, but highly complex. When trained, an AI can be used to say control a set of actuators, say in shape of a robotic arm. However, we nowadays …
AI essay from his voice comments
AI generated based on comments: “Multiple facets of AI and machinery, automation and stuff like that, which it helps human but also does not help human. It helps human achieving newer levels of work but it does not help human …
scan with lidar/camera while printing; closed-loop "negative sculptor"
3D printers nowadays use Gcode which is generated by slicer and is fixed. A more improved version can scan the object using lidar or cameras, determine existing hardware structure and then can start printing based on it, as …
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own ideas vs adopted (AI) ideas feel different
Two modes in which a person can exist while trying to do something are : the person thinking and engraving their own ideas in the universe, or other is when they are given some ideas (say e.g. generated by AI, but not thought …
exists vs not-yet-conceived lists; "I don't know what I don't know"; "Written by AI and me"
Utopian technologies that currently exist include advanced clean energy solutions, universal basic needs automation, medical innovations, sustainable environmental tech, post-scarcity economy tools, global connectivity and …
see beyond the desired; "one must be their own leader"
Here is the thing: one must see beyond that desired to effectively make whats desired. One needs to know the fundamental to effectively go anywhere near fundamental and bring out that as real. And, the other which can only see …
vertically dense chips need fluid cooling → flesh-like
What would happen if the semiconductor chips would be as dense vertically as they are horizontally, they would pack a tonne of computation (its about the feeling you get when you read it), but they would consume also much power, …
early LLMs "affected the fabric of consciousness"; eviebot; GPT on artificial consciousness
ambiguity confusing my rational mind, does world move and I stay static, or I move and world remains as it is , in its own motion, whatever thoughts come in my mind, are they governed by the world around me, or are they governed …
image generator with no input driven by cosmic forces; two identical brains one conscious?; links 7 earlier posts
Self wired, what are image generators: they take text input and output image based on how they are trained at, but what if there is no input and we observe the output, for starters it will be static, but what if we let it …
closed loops; laundry cycle; 6 images
Autonomous Systems : a conglomeration of looped systems Automation is the key to grow forward. Without automation, life wouldn’t have evolved to its current state, simply because manual conscious control of each of the components …
grainy video ache; GPT explanation (tags autism, neurodiversity)
when looking at something, a noisy video, for a moment, I felt ache in my insides , while expecting to be a video of soothing song, I felt not to watch and listen to the video because video quality was grainy. why did the trained …
fusion as big-bang battery
they have an internal power or energy generator, conceptually, the system does not require external supply, but energy always comes from something, so, .. but if initial energy is contained in it, it runs much like battery, …
weight-sensor slots + camera fusion (AI generated)
On parts of series HomeAutomation, 🤖 AI generated: The Smart Fridge integrates advanced sensors and IoT technology to optimize storage, track inventory, and minimize food waste. The fridge incorporates weight sensors, an image …
list of chores; automate the boring; "(to be continued)"
Based on automation that is possible using systems that are capable of manipulating physical matter, i.e. physical objects in everyday life, a.k.a. robots. The things I do every day or week: Get cleaned utensils, cook food, and …
METs, RMR (GPT figures). — highest on the blog so far
human physical body consumption. while you are resting or sitting, you are still active and consuming considerable amounts of energy, and not like ‘not doing anything’. Here are some AI (ChatGPT4o) made figures based on what …
millions of agents; realtime code generation & execution; kinesin analogy
Typically, in my experience, small piece of software is written by a small team, or mostly solo. In a company, its written with company, with many people contributing to the same code. However, at a time, only one person may work …
nobody sees how things are made; roadblock for new developers; "If you never see it, how will you ever know."
Many things in society are not visible, or people never see it or question about it or think about it, everything is in the shop, or online stores which people can buy, but most don’t think how does it come to be, how it was …
closeness kills desire; knowing a word vs feeling it
What an characteristics of an person is!… A person can attain some forms, but could not do certain things as well,. what I mean is as said from ancient times, a person is unique in itself in its own experience, in terms of …
"Imagination is like a fruitfly on a glass window"
Here is an idea of veil of consciousness that hovers all among us, its the combined pressure of feeling that everyone gets when near vicinity of each other, but depending on how the ideas in the brain are structured and learned, …
speech→text→3D→print; goal G ideation; Aider; GPT list of construction robots
Surprising, how humans have shaped the world. Similarly, except, if we look from third entity perspective, it all just appeared and is a product of life forms that existed and currently are. So by looking each entity that has …
DNA as tree-growth parameter list; GPT python for mutated L-system trees; cell division/aging (GPT)
Evolution has been absolutely environment driven. As surroundings affect the forms which it contains, and drives it towards new forms, which sustain in that environment. Never there has been a break in the continuity of life, a …
S_{k+1} = F_{laws+control}(S_k)
From our perspective of being’s control, world can be seen as a controllable system. Factors affecting the transition of existing state S_k at time k into state S_k+1 at time k+1 are due to universal laws, and control of free …
element composition images; GPT fictional universe Arcthonia (5 forces, 32 Tonic elements, Chronomorphs…)
We are biological forms made from stuff that surrounds us… We can imagine a network structure or a knowledge structure which It’s all the chemical reactions that are there in the possibility a flow graph of this in the world. …
tissue strength, collagen, aesthetics (GPT)
How is the strength of a being defined? strength of tissue: inter-cellular bonding and cellular strength. How strong is a single cell, how strong are intercellular connections, together determine the strength of tissue. cells …
spirit = collection of attainable thought-states; "right spirit" = mood; consciousness as a force like gravity
We are thinking beings, so called human beings, us. We know that we exist as we experience the world around us and we think on it, we generate ideas that attain states in say conceptually constructed space of all existing …
stars & planets; personality labels backfire; augmented senses (vision/sound/touch/temperature/pleasure/pain)
Here is another theory thought or an idea: What do you think about it when you see someone or something or a group which is better, that you think is better. You may want to align yourself to that goal that they inspire within …
finger IMUs + AR QWERTY; Rokid Air; Meta STAR
Generated by ChatGPT, also the post based on idea Imagine typing on a keyboard that isn’t physically there, yet every motion of your fingers in the air translates into text on a screen. This is the exciting vision of AI-driven …
glasses + belt unit + gesture/voice/eye input + haptic rings (o1)
Generated by ChatGPT4o1, images by ChatGPT4o 1. Lightweight AR Glasses: Design: Sleek, ergonomic glasses that resemble regular eyewear. Display: High-resolution transparent lenses that overlay digital information onto the real …
blind men & elephant; include the observer; Elliphant "One More"
We know about this world, this universe, or so we think. This may just be me trying to clarify the understanding of this world. We have access to definition based understanding, say of charges, and electric and magnetic field, …
consciousness as a force alongside the four
What is present, in this moment, existing in reality, … we people see people around each other, plants, trees, animals, birds, insects, etc. that is we see a lot of life around us. We also see computer, smartphones, watches, …
whole net physically in hardware, all layers active, video/audio/thought streams; needs fast silicon turnaround
The concept of “always loaded neural network” We nowadays process the giant neural networks but through a narrow nozzle of processor, slowly waiting for the tank of water to be drained or processed from the narrow tap to be …
"Substance X", GPT-4o
Overview Imagine a holographic 3D display that uses beams of decaying particles to create visible voxels in a three-dimensional space. This display would leverage the emission of photons upon the decay of specific particles, …
GPT flow graph phone→robot
Flow Graph: Teleconverting an Android Smartphone to an Actual Android Initial State: Smartphone Android smartphone with standard functionality (calling, apps, etc.) Hardware components: screen, CPU, battery, camera, sensors, etc. …
AI dialogue
Artificial Intelligence 2024AD: Earth: “Hello, Mars! Hello, Moon! It’s always interesting when we get a chance to talk. We’ve been neighbors for eons, but it feels like we’re more connected than ever, especially with all the …
evolution slow; gene editing as anchor; hybrid materials; 10 images
We as humans of 20th century continue to exist today. From perspective of thousands of years, human bodies have not developed significantly. Evolution is a slow seemingly random process. From modern sci-fi perspective, all the …
one question
Can one (something) trigger the conscious experience without any sensory input? I mean without any external sensory input, and without any internal physical state, as the conscious state governed by something beyond what is known …
feeds narrow interests; randomness lost
Modern social media is dominated with algorithms, which force person to a particular feed, due to fault in its optimality, which it never knows. Which may force a person to delve into sub-optimal monotone inputs which may …
spring aliveness; conscious density; MRI; "Universe observes itself through the eyes it created"
Sustaining Consciousness concept of Global Collective Consciousness Read above two posts diving into this one. Universe, as we know is a continuous space. In this hypothesis, which might as well be an reality we can believe in, …
Wikipedia soundtrack list dump (123 links)
from wikipedia The Hangover: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Sherlock Holmes: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Valentine’s Day: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Clash of the Titans: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack …
O₂ for dinosaurs, intelligence for humans, now: information
Dinosaurs were bestowed with physical vitality, there was lots of O2 back then humans with intelligence, what is plenty now? and unlike an human who gets offended, AI can answer my dumb questions: –ChatGPT4– Today, the abundance …
Health = Mental + Physical; T(t) = ∫trauma; docus.ai
Health is an important indicator that is misunderstood or has a biased measure in modern society. Modern society teaches to focus only on certain kinds of aspects which ultimately leads to problems in society as you can see in …
8 should/want statements + GPT
“You should do it because you want to do it” “You should not do it because you don’t want to do it” “You could do it doesn’t mean you should want it” “You couldn’t do it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t want it” “If you do it but you …
atoms sentient?
How humanity and intelligence are different things, while people may debate over why chatGPT4 with same complexity as humans ain’t human-like, but at the core, the states of information are processed from source to destination, …
c(t) ∈ C ⊂ U as N-dim spike-rate vector; ⟨c(t)⟩ mean state of a book / topic set; model population experience
Conscious beings experience. Experience here is the mental emotion, perception, thoughts, etc. Here we assume that the mental experience is associated with the neural brain activity (which is so far what it has led to). We can …
uni-verse = all in one word
Good intention and positive thinking helps in avoiding the outcomes which have adverse effects. Its useful for survival, as it makes the difference between existing and ceasing to exist, at the edge of ledge, as if little …
living the story feels richer
What are you living, the laws of the universe, or the story, the experience of mind feels rich (at least a striking thought that I have now), when you are living the story (or one of the dreams that you have), which is often a …
unaffordable tech; text2matter; global database of all items in the world; Venus vision; "universe in sync"
what I feel is I cannot afford anything that there is in tech world, and I am doing research, I cannot even afford equipment for research, and nothing is substantial yet, i.e. running smoothly robustly so it can be useful for a …
lone voyage fantasy; "or maybe there will be somebody with me"
I live in a world (in my mind) where there are no resources, touching nature is prohibited, considered as a alien in a foreign land (where all people on earth have colonized and call it all theirs when it is not really), there …
PERSONAL (numbness, 2020 episode)
Humans experience as they are existing. Humans do things for an reward of an experience. This experience is affected by information, and evolution of that information on a preprogrammed brain substrate from particular state. The …
1970s feeling faded; capitalist drudgery; playlist embed
A thought although there is some stable feeling and thoughts…, here we are, a little bit in the future, however, the feelings of the developments done in 1970s have faded, part of the feelings are more replaced by labour of …
seed → tree; iterative beats one-shot; diffusion analogy
Writing can be a tedious task, and seemingly impossible, especially when everything that you need to write to produce the final output in one go, where accounting all the details is difficult in the mind. One approach is to …
Ra ↔ Sun, GPT
From ChatGPT4, analogous of Ra (from text at https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ra and after result of language model:) In the vast expanse of our universe, the Sun occupies the central role, akin to Ra, the ancient Egyptian deity …
"Things and ideas are bigger because they are perceived bigger"
A piece of work is perceived differently from domains which are near or far. Fundamental concepts are the core of things, which are flavored with its use with text, like a candy with flavors, thus, also highlights the …
Gemini list + DALL-E
Future and present: transportation Google Gemini generated, image: DallE3 (ChatGPT4) Present Transportation Cars: The dominant mode of personal transportation. Continued focus on improving fuel efficiency, electric vehicles …
researchers without resources; "text2matter"; sci-fi motivates; "an idea weighing heavily"
Alternate title: “Navigating the Future: The Intersection of Imagination, Technology, and Human Essence” Researchers working on researching new knowledge, many challenges exist, one of it is access to resources for the intended …
equations "spray-painted"; de-eponymize laws (Newton)
Mathematically inspired books are often hard to read, it seems like they only spray paint equations for the unthinking person, or they are for AI to read… By knowing the fundamentals, the equations are rather obvious in the …
Dune quote; GPT; note for AI dev: micro-aligned direction early
Note for AI development, choosing the micro aligned direction can be beneficial in reducing decades or useless work later. “Beginnings are such delicate times” is a profound statement that echoes the sentiment of how crucial and …
GPT advice on mistaken identity (
here is how chatGPT resorts to it: there are many challenges in society that prevent you from developing the world, or even live through what you could have lived, they prevent you from living a life you deserved, they speak …
A_i ∪ A stable/unstable; build brain-organ system from breathing circuitry up; biohackers handbook pdf
When we think of autonomous systems, it reminds us of the system which solely runs on itself and in relation to its interaction to its surroundings, Are we autonomous?, we know that we have a perception (a soul of us), and we can …
same time, lighter mental load; keep originality in the higher structure; one-shot accurate prompts
When I use AI to do a subtask of what I am doing, I end up spending similar amount of time as if I would have done the task myself, although however the mental load is lighter than what I would usually have to do if I were to do …
research region from constraints of reality (diagram)
Research impacts society through action brought up on massive scale. However, the constraints of reality prevent research from being applicable to societal impact. To solve current problems, the need of research region can be …
change chain individual→world; energy directed makes the thing
What is meant by change? change to the individuals leads to changes in their thinking, which leads to change in their actions, which leads to changes in the surroundings, which leads to change in the world. Individuals have taste …
AI as clonable knowledge; compress by basis
One of the good things about AI is that you can use all the information on the planet to train it, so it can look at the world in simplistic manner after learning and projecting the many information to its common set of basis …
work consumes energy; job = serious adult work; take job as hobby
What is work, work is anything that consumes energy, but what is a job, job is anything that is done by an adult person, done in a serious manner that is worthy of its idea and energy put in, simple things as may appear can also …
wrong solution = two problems; universe is perfect
when you incorrectly solve a problem, you get two problems: 1. the problems that remained unsolved. 2. by creating an approximate solution, that triggers a new problem of its own problems … problems must be solved exactly, when …
belongings lose meaning; remembered while readable
After a person has died, his belongings (including the body, surroundings, etc) hold no longer the meaning as the sentience which had belonging to it with the peculiar feelings of thoughts awareness perception about it ceases to …
interest gates communication; field of awareness (sensors for robots); co-existing entities & lifespan support
When humans do things, things are complex like human, when robot does things, things can be simple. A large amount of thinking that we do, or at least I do, is about behaving, learning to behave, and learning to decide (predict …
"Sky was the same when dinosaurs ruled the Earth"; seeds; trees new every spring
“Sky was the same when dinosaurs ruled the Earth”. There is no life on another planet, not as we know it, but there as well might be another life forms, though not as we imagine them, and they could be just as boring as we find …
species-level intelligence via genes
Being human has its downsides, along with the body humans (word for carry or have). Beings think. Physical embodied beings, such as humans, have used intelligence for their survival in evolution, and through it, we are dependent …
health monitor + autonomous nav (vehicle/wheelchair/spacesuit); maritime + respiratory; 9 DALL-E
Health monitoring with autonomous navigation method. Is a concept where part of the system monitors the critical part controlling the system (a person controlling a vehicle, a person walking, a person in a spacesuit, a person on …
represent the frontier of science as a sphere with radial progress markers; generate details on demand from structure
How to read and write, in a fast paced world! You may read this blog before. One of the main difficulties in doing research is catching up with what is currently existing, and looking for stuff beyond it. If you want to master …
"if you feel the core, you can write the entire page"
Sometimes you just feel what is there, its like the space can be sensed by consciousness.. This who rely on entire page of reading only to understand what’s beneath to the core of it, so you don’t need to remember the entire …
8 billion superimposed entity (10^19 neurons, 10^23 synapses); "spatio-tempero-chroma-acousto-thermo-touchy-scenty-feely-pleasury-painy world"; / 4 comments (most-engaged so far)
Ever felt as if earth and surroundings near you feel alive, as if your brain is free falling to the ripples of the universe, as if its beyond control of your own self. An human brain contains 10^11 neurons and 10^15 synapses, of …
war; GPT "worse than war" list; 3 DALL-E
One of the key things throughout history is the history of war. As modern people of the society, peace is the only option, but we see wars emerging from time to time. How does it happen, why is it supported, but more than even …
structures sustaining experi degrade; music triggers deep states; / 3 comments
In this universe, for sustained existence of conscious experi, the structure supporting it must be sustained, and for it, actions must be taken by the existing entity to sustain itself, but currently as it happens, structures …
N+1 comfort-zone intersection; M-F matching problem; desirability metric f(beauty, emotional connection, health, status); GPT compatibility list; Alanis "Thank U" sequence
I wonder why I find myself single, and time alarms me every year. That feeling of closeness has worn of and faded long time ago, but sometimes some people still give that feeling, its like the feeling has not gone but is made …
feelings need tools first; "only those will survive in their work who love their job"; consciousness must enter science; only present exists
At some times in your life, you might have wondered about the meaning and existence about life, what is the purpose of life. Among many, one of it is to experience the world around by the being, and maybe ponder over how does …