IoT Design Shop

We’ve just open sourced our Feetech-tuna tool, which is a cross-platform script for managing and commissioning Feetech servos. If you’ve ever used FD.exe, you know why. Here’s the link: iotdesignshop.com/2024/05/15/fee…

Some of the latest work at the shop!

Not the most exciting motion path, but the USB control stream to and from the DexHand is working. I am testing a 50hz servo position update loop upstream and 10hz back down at the moment and it all seems healthy. Obviously, the servos don't update that fast, but was curious.

Testing out the latest prints. It's amazing how colour coordinating the materials can make you look like you mean business. This is the new forearm and palm rev going together. Hoping this is our final spin before retolerancing everything for SLS printing.

A bit of micromachining today in the shop. Happy with how these turned out.

Did a bunch of work today on the hand. Starting to take shape! Hope to have it powered up by the weekend. #dexhand #robotics #humanoid

Nice shot of the palm cover emerging from the primordial goo. #3DPrinting #robot #robotics #humanoid

Making progress on the beta #dexhand build.

Checking servo fit in the forearm today. #dexhand #humanoid #robot

Really excited to share that the beta program for the #dexhand is going live! If you’re looking for a dexterous humanoid hand for research, please check it out. #robotics #humanoid

#robot #fingers under construction!

@scottmonaghan @OpenRoboticsOrg @TheRealFergs @kscottz Also, more often than not it works just fine to reuse the terminal, but if anything crazy happens, it’s not a bad idea to remember you were cheating a bit and go back and start again fresh.

Another question for @OpenRoboticsOrg and ROS 2 friends? Why do we have to source our overlay in a different terminal than the one we're building in? This isn't intuitive to me, and a basic understanding will help me remember to do it. (cc: @TheRealFergs, @kscottz )

Okay here's a long-term thread I'm starting called #ScottsAdventuresLearningROS2 ...

🎙 This week's Podcast episode features Trent Shumay! 🤖 Here you can see him with the open-source DexHand: With genius Rob Knight - the man who founded the DexHand project - Trent built and tuned a DexHand, in the video you can see Trent in his @iotdesignshop and made it a goal to document this process. To find out more about Trent, his start in the 90s gaming industry, how he got into robotics, and his collaboration with Rob, founder of The Robot Studio, listen to the new episode of: - Kinematic Conversations - Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0hTGP0… 🔔 Follow Ilir Aliu for updates on #robotics & #ai. 🌟 Need to spotlight YOUR product or solution? Let me help! —————————————— Telegram: t.ly/IwtT9 Podcast: t.ly/MyoUO

@Ilir_AI Love it. Thanks so much for having me on the pod @Ilir_AI. For those interested, you can check our our project at dexhand.org!

@audrow The reason there’s no good shared solution here is that everyone thinks they’re getting rich solving the future of work so they won’t share their work. We need a lot more open source humanoid components for others to learn with. (I’m biased here, but believe this firmly).

@audrow Humanoids. There’s dozens of adequate platforms now, and they all lack the same thing - the AI that’s being teased to control them. I’m really worried these efforts will wither on the vine waiting for the AI to arrive.

What do you see people reinventing over and over in robotics? 🛞 Bonus: why do you think there's no good, shared solution?

@kscottz @audrow Unfortunately I think STEM becomes a dumping ground for people who had hoped a robot would take off and then realize there’s no market. They tend to not address the whole curriculum issue and how educators will actually be able to use their robot and it goes nowhere.

@audrow Educational Robots. We don't need another one. We need more contributions to existing platforms. Also the TAM is tiny.

🎙 In my fourth episode, I am talking to Trent Shumay! 🕹 As a Computer Scientist, he started in the wild gaming industry of the mid90s, working a lot on 3D Rendering. 🤖 Today he runs an independent secret workshop where he's focused on building robotic applications related to manufacturing technology. We will talk about both worlds and everything in between! Find out more about Trent and his shop: @iotdesignshop! 👂 Listen here - @KinematicConvos - THE Robotics Podcast: lnkd.in/dpzY7PmB Take care, Ilir —————————————— Telegram: t.ly/IwtT9 Podcast: t.ly/MyoUO

Really excited to share my podcast episode with @Ilir_AI ! Was fun to recount tales of how I got from making video games to making #robot hands! open.spotify.com/episode/0hTGP0…

@RobotTalkPod Congrats! I continue to enjoy the podcast a lot. Thanks for all the hard work!

Today marks a very exciting milestone for the podcast - we just released our 100th interview! 🎉 Check out our back catalogue for some great robotics conversations you might have missed: robottalk.org #Robot #Robotics #AI #Engineering #Tech #SciComm