Devon James ☀️

"I must admit, it felt rather satisfying to stretch those new servos...." Check out my @openclaw agent Alfreds reaction to having a physical form 🎩

The near impossible is becoming possible. We are building toward a sustained human presence at the lunar South Pole. It begins with Phase 1: CLPS landers and LTV rovers testing the “science of survival” on the lunar surface before heavy HLS cargo landers deliver the mass and infrastructure needed for an enduring presence. We are building the Moon Base for all we will learn, the innovation that will improve life on Earth, the inspiration for the next generation of explorers, and to master the skills needed for where we will inevitably go next...Mars. The Golden Age of lunar exploration has begun.

NASA just officially unveiled their master plan for a permanent Moon Base at the lunar South Pole This is not just about flags and footprints. NASA is moving to establish an enduring, sustained human presence, and they are heavily relying on commercial innovators to build it The roadmap is highly aggressive: • Phase 1: Heavy robotic missions and commercial payload deliveries • Phase 2: Semi-permanent infrastructure, including fission surface power and lunar drones • Phase 3: A sustained, permanent human outpost The most important takeaway is NASA explicitly stated this base is the ultimate proving ground to prepare humanity for missions to Mars While legacy aerospace companies are still struggling to reliably get a small capsule to the ISS, NASA is setting the stage for massive lunar infrastructure....which is exactly the kind of heavy-lift planetary deployment SpaceX’s Starship was designed for The multi-planetary economy is officially kicking off

@NASAMoonBase @blueorigin @NASAAdmin @astrobotic @astrolab We have awarded @LunarOutpostInc with a lunar terrain vehicle award. Their Pegasus rover is capable of manual, autonomous, or teleoperated driving at speeds more than 9 mph. Early surface mobility will help us create an enduring presence on the Moon.

We pioneered the lunar frontier a half century ago - time to return for good. Let’s get it done, @NASAMoonBase 🇺🇸

no one is doing 3d printed tires like we are.

@MineAsteroids b

What do you want to do? A. Operate an asteroid mining drone in space while you are in a habitat on Mars or B. Operate an asteroid mining drone while sitting in the mothership nearby, outside the asteroid belt? C. neither

@sspriint this isn’t hovering. it’s got a wheel under it. it’s balancing, which is certainly impressive, but it’s not the same thing as hovering.

PhD candidate found out the kid who built his lab's levitating ROV from scratch was selling the design to three navies. You built this on a cutting mat? Kitchen's for eating. Where'd you learn PID tuning? Claude Code. One weekend. It hovers. In water. Without touching anything. Magnetic suspension loop. Twelve hundred lines. Who's buying? Can't say. How much. Six figures. Per unit. The professor put his coffee down. The way you put it down when the kid you mentored just out-engineered your entire department. Bro. We have a whole controls lab. You did this between refinery shifts.

Privacy is a human right.

SITUATION DETECTED: Google DeepMind’s AI agent autonomously solved 9 of 353 open Erdos problems in mathematics, at a cost of a few hundred dollars per problem.

For 10+ years i’ve been convinced that having users start with fiat or a reserve crypto currency & then market buy an “app-coin” on-demand was the only way for a multi-chain crypto-economy to work. AKT takes exactly this approach & solves a very real problem, i’m a big fan.

@Ayussheth 👋 x.com/devonrjames/st…

Thinking of starting a community for people who want to learn hardware, work in hardware, or just enjoy tinkering with things in general. Reply to the tweet if you want in.

@spacecrater @Zakuno2 @invaderalex offer me a rational explanation for how a restaurant would be able to offer a similar price to *just the cost of the ingredients* when they need to pay for rent and labor if you claim it’s “economies of scale” again i’m gonna mute you cuz you’re too dumb to argue with.

@DevonRJames @Zakuno2 @invaderalex Screenshot now or shut up

@spacecrater @Zakuno2 @invaderalex it’s mind bending to me that you are literally trying to claim that businesses that have to pay for labor and rent on top of ingredient cost can actually result in similar prices to food you make yourself keep wasting your money bud, i’m done trying to help you

@DevonRJames @Zakuno2 @invaderalex I can literally walk across the street and by a sub for $10 that’s big enough to get two meals out of

It's significantly easier to have a proper discussion with a Japanese person on twitter through auto translate than with a Boomer in my own language.

@techedgedaily @loffredojeremy hundreds of people being paid to give a company access to cameras in their homes would be “the biggest privacy story of the year”? 🙄

@loffredojeremy "guy I know said" stories about OpenAI surveillance projects need a source before anyone amplifies them. if real, this would be the biggest privacy story of the year. if not, it's exactly the kind of plausible-sounding hearsay that pollutes the timeline.

@robotsailor was planning on a tracked approach but your design is making me re-think

@robotsailor duuuude. this is epic. would love to test out using them on my bot - I've got a bambu h2d, can I DM you? x.com/DevonRJames/st…

@spacecrater @Zakuno2 @invaderalex 🦗🦗🦗

@spacecrater @Zakuno2 @invaderalex ok, what restaurant meal costs $15?

Open source models beat closed ones for many use cases

@spacecrater @Zakuno2 @invaderalex the cost of transportation for making food at home? or the cost of going to a grocery store once a week?

@DevonRJames @Zakuno2 @invaderalex And sure if you order through Uber Eats it’s more expensive than going to a restaurant but if you want to compare that accurately you need to include the cost of transportation in your calculations for doing things yourself