Maison Neuve
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Maison Neuve
@maisonneuve_
Press & design studio for early-stage tech.




Morning all! happy Monday to my manufacturing homies, crush it this week! I build things in my head like a CAD program. However some projects go beyond the human scale and at that point I step into 3D modelling. Here is the earliest work on the farming robot way back in 2017, I had initially assumed I could retrofit current pivot irrigators so I built a 1:1 model of a pivot irrigator and started playing. the MK1 ended up being a mad collection of cable drives and robotics that likely wouldn't have worked in this application but it helped to see the concept and its shortfalls before committing further work. I also worked on some ideas for a masticating weeder (yes, yes its a funny word) that I would still like to explore in time. The final version of the robot bears almost no resemblance to this early concept but without it, the developed version wouldn't exist. Can anyone guess the fundamental flaw with this design? (hint, its not mechanical)


















wait… did Cohere just release Command A+ models under Apache 2.0 for the first time ever?! 🙊 welcome to Europe! 🤗











