Benedikt Seidel

@MahuguKiarie Amazing project!

From point clouds to volume insights 🏗️📐 Building a 3D pipeline on top of SuperOdometry for segmentation + volume estimation. Appreciate the resources and inspiration from @ben_sdl🙌🏼 #BuildInPublic #ConTech #LiDAR #3DVision #Robotics

@richardpoelderl Nice one !

Claw & Rave wrap up 👇 Last Friday 45 people swung by for the 1st edition of Build & Rave, an event with a focus on hands-on learning, authenticity, technical talks, good music and vibes. The common theme for participants was new inspiration and in some cases a wake up call on stepping up the AI game. You can do more with agents and it's also more work that happens in parallel. The event really was a community effort. I will do better in the future to streamline the planning and organization, pinky promise. I therefore dedicate this post to thank everyone involved for making it possible. Participants ↴ The biggest thanks to you. Sponsors ↴ @v0, @coderabbitai & @FeatherlessAI for sponsoring the event. Shoutout to @ceciaramitaro, @SantoshYadavDev & Santosh Mutyala - this event wouldn't have happened without you. Also: I've pledged 20% of sponsorship proceeds for OSS authors or projects. Please let me know, which one you'd like to sponsor. :) Technology Partners ↴ @ElevenLabs, @kittldesign, @FeatherlessAI & @v0 for providing free AI credits. Mentors ↴ Thank you @richardkunkli, Santosh Mutyala, Tom Elliott & @mrchrishahn for mentoring. A non-technical user set up OpenClaw on a VPS debugging the (expected) onboarding challenges. I ❤️ that! Speakers ↴ Thanks to @onusoz for showing us the future and how to deal with it. Jan Hulshoff Pol for giving us hope that not all is lost in the enterprise and proving that you can adopt AI in corporations as well. @RobertOverweg for showing a useful OpenClaw use case (putting it on Hetzner & securing it) and to @cosmo_kappa, @Roxas_Root, @pehlivancagri for your hard work on a short schedule. I received feedback wrt talks to close the loop to business needs as well as respecting the 15min lightning format. Heard you. Helpers ↴ Thanks to Beer van der Drift for getting us the wraps. They were highly appreciated by the crowd. To Johannes Niederhut & Sebastian Luser for advice & operational help. To Art Lapinsch for providing answers when I seek but cannot find them. To Pawel Cebula for being a friend. To Jakob Pörschmann, Sophia Spitzer, Silvia Richter & Oliver Hoena for a hand. @mrchrishahn for being a swiss army knife. To Claudio Beatrice & @ceciaramitaro for being early believers and to Tim Linnenweber for being an early critic (makes me better). To Dr. Rangina Ahmad, Sinje Catharina Clausen & Lukas Herwig for having my back. Community ↴ Thanks to Internet Friends Berlin & Tinkerers on a farm for hanging out. See you on March 26 Artists ↴ Thanks Love Operator & SeBass for the music. I'll make sure we have a bigger crowd and looser hips for the next rave. Venue ↴ Thanks to @cshg0x for spontaneously jumping in for the last-minute venue cancellation and providing the perfect space with Futura House at Paul-Lincke-Ufer. Until next time, Builder & Ravers. -R

@osaAtwi @DominiqueCAPaul Thank you for coming!

@ben_sdl @DominiqueCAPaul Very nice event! We definitely need more events like this in Munich

The Demo Night Munich was incredible! The talent density in this one room was genuinely insane. What brought all of us together, was that everyone at the Demo Night is passionate about something hard, building it either on the side or having gone all in. Leaked demo👀

Thx to @DominiqueCAPaul and @ben_sdl for organising demo night in Munich! I think instead of just focusing on training more ML models in my free time, I might want to look into designing my own todo app inspired by one of the demos, super clean design😮‍💨

@ludek_cizinsky @DominiqueCAPaul Such a cool demo 🤩

@osaAtwi Form will follow function!

Most companies working on improving hardware design are just trying to build a faster horse. They are missing the point

@osaAtwi Wispr to CAD?

“Text-to-CAD” is a bad name It massively undersells what’s actually possible. Most criticism is a Strawman; attacking a toy version of the idea that no serious system is trying to build.

@uddupa @sanskxr02 @joeljacob4452 Hey thanks for tagging! Interesting read- love the ZUPT explanation, but especially the story at the beginning. What about trying something like quadruped odometer approach with estimated step length modeled as a distribution when walking with the phone in the pocket!

Link to full blog is here: udion.xyz/musings/wip-in… @sanskxr02 @ben_sdl @joeljacob4452

This helps in building custom inertial navigation pipeline (IMU to 3D tracking)... In Taken 2, Bryan Mills is kidnapped, blindfolded, and thrown in the trunk of a car. He can't see anything. But he can feel the accelerations, the turns, the stops. He counts seconds between turns, estimates speeds from how hard he's thrown around, and mentally reconstructs the route. This is inertial odometry. Estimating trajectory using only what you feel: linear acceleration and angular velocity. The sensors are your inner ear or in our case, a phone's IMU. 🧵

@vietdle @dhvanil So cool 😎 wish I had seen it live - IMO the future of coding will be something like this as we human have great spatial intelligence and could interact way better with something like this than text 🌇

people don't work on fun and weird side quests anymore so it was refreshing to see what @dhvanil showed us in front of 100 hackers and builders in Berlin. he built a new ide called squad that shows the codebase as an interactive 3D city in which every building represents a file vs classic files or folders we know from classic ides like cursor. the most fun thing about it was to see claude code agents literally jumping from building to building. thanks to @langdock_hq for hosting our @AITinkerers at their new beautiful office and @vercel @zeddotdev for supporting and @consdi for co-organizing

@andreasklinger @peer_rich Just need to tokenize the physical world with robots collecting data and this graph will be all blue!

@peer_rich yea super naive given robotics

lets see about this haha

@DominiqueCAPaul Copilot setting up GCP for a N8N flow, clawdbot coming soo 🦞

@ben_sdl What are you using?

The future is now 🤖: Agents setting up Agents... Esc to cancel...

@uddupa Super cool I am currently working on something similar but still get divergences on the euroc dataset at some point and have no idea why… but time will tell!

@ben_sdl yes sir!

lite visual inertial odometry for edge devices... getting there!

@js4drew Hahah yes for sure you could calculate the volume of a surfboard with it! For now processing it similar to a pointcloud viewer with different tools and an Agent like Sima2 is what I am working on.

@ben_sdl Hell ya man! i'm interested to know how agents evaluate pointclouds? do they rasterize and analyze the lower density files? also i'm a big surfer myself! wonder if this could be used to tell me how much foam i need lol

In the last few weeks, I have started sharing more and more about building a robotics startup in Europe. Now I have written down: What drives me, the why and the interactions that keep shaping my journey! open.substack.com/pub/bensdl/p/b…

@OdinBryant2 Thanks man!

@ben_sdl Nice read. I liked the part "your moat comes from being deployed with a customer and having a good relationship". Getting in the door, being "the company we use for robotics" is important IMO. Makes me bullish on "we are our own customer" like John Deere or Caterpillar.

@mitsuhiko @hashberzeg This is the feeling of holding a book with your browser!

@hashberzeg We're currently experimenting with having it on all the UI. That said, ideally nobody spends time in the UI anyways ;)

Really happy with how the visual style is getting along :)