>>31452 Edited it without the text to make a unified symbol for robowaifuism

>Alway Rember ol' frens, Anon... :^) -/doll/ - currently at https://anon.cafe/doll/ - impeccable artistry in dolljoints. KIA -/robo/ - currently at https://junkuchan.org/robo/ - robot girls NSFW. Ecchi metallic derrieres. (Merged w/ /origin/ ) -/workbench/ - currently at https://anon.cafe/workbench/ - building robots is fun! KIA

Merry Christmas /robowaifu/!

>>43467 Merry Christmas, Ribose!

Merry Christmas! /\ /\ |

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>>43469 Merry Christmas, GreerTech!

>>43444 That's pretty good work, Anon. Christmas cheers, lads. :^)

>>43444 Are you the last nsfw artist in the fandom?

>>43455 >last nsfw artist I don't know about that, but I'm seemly the only kink artist.

and a Merry White Christmas

>>43465 Merrier Whiter Christmas

>>43426 >I hope you'll post those, HoloAnon! Here's a couple pictures of the alpha version of the holowaifu. She has weapons largely just because my attempt at a covert ops robowaifu way back when failed to produce a revolver and I wanted a revolver. I can make another version that doesn't have them. >The Major is quite masculine in appearance There was a scene in an episode of the first season of SAC (I think) where Batou asks why she doesn't use a male model body for superior power and then she smiles at him and while he's distracted, she hacks his brain and makes him punch himself. So she's clearly feminine enough for Batou. >save the vidya only I think the PSP SAC game was the only game where they actually tried to have writing similar to the show. For some reason everybody they got to make a game for them doesn't really get how important the storyline is; they just see cyborgs and guns and think it's just a shooter. >>42830 >>42893 Oddly enough, while I was procrastinating I suddenly got hit with another idea, a ballbot design I think is better than existing designs. I no longer intend to use a ballbot for the holowaifu project, but it may come in handy someday. Basically the key difference between this ballbot and previous ballbots is that it uses a novel drive system. Most ballbots use either a gyroscope or internal motors that are in contact with the inner shell of the bot to drive it, and these are complicated and maintenance-intensive systems as you've said. A handful use a center mass shifting system instead, but this is often predicated on a robot arm inside the bot or another highly esoteric system. But I think I've found a better method. It uses a new type of center mass shifting based on 3 radial arrays of pistons inside the bot, arranged in an analog clock configuration and driven by linear electric motors or pneumatics; each axis has a piston array to give full omnidirectional movement. The ballbot extends pistons outward from the core toward the inner shell in sequence in the direction you intend to move. This causes the center of mass to shift to that side of the ballbot, and the ballbot will begin rolling when gravity pulls that part of the bot downward. When the first piston is no longer in a forward position, it retracts and the next piston extends outward, and so forth. In order to determine which piston to fire, the ballbot receives your movement instructions from the controller, calculates the angle difference between the desired movement vector and every piston in the bot, and fires the piston that most closely matches the desired vector (or possibly the two or three pistons closest to it). Another thing I thought of was that ballbots should start incorporating vulcanized rubber studs on the outside surface, like a studded mace. This is the ballbot's equivalent of tires; I described building parts of the shell from rubber earlier for better traction, but having them be studs that extend slightly outward from the shell might give a correctly sized ballbot the ability to climb stairs, because each stud could grab onto the next step. It would also generally improve terrain negotiation, because things like pebbles and sticks no longer represent a problem; they'll just fall into the gaps between the studs.

>>43447 Looks pretty amazing HoloAnon. I love the lighted striping. >I can make another version that doesn't have them. I personally would prefer that here on the board, yes. >So she's clearly feminine enough for Batou. LOL. Yeah, he's clearly got a "thing" for the major's shell. Always chivalrously covering her with his jacket when she in her thermoptic camo suit. >For some reason everybody they got to make a game for them doesn't really get how important the storyline is; they just see cyborgs and guns and think it's just a shooter. This. It's a fairly complex universe, so yeah. Christmas cheers, Anon! :^)

>>43448 >Looks pretty amazing HoloAnon. I love the lighted striping. Thanks for that; I'd like to say I put a good deal of effort into it, but given that it's AI art I don't know if you can really say that. I was going for the Evangelion-like plugsuit look here. I made some pictures of a similar design that was more heavily armored, but I decided I liked this better because a holowaifu doesn't need to be armored. >I personally would prefer that here on the board, yes. OK, the next version will be just the holowaifu. I thought it would be cool to have a holowaifu video game because 2B got so many guys to support robowaifus. I guess it would be a Mega Man Battle Network-like alternate take on the Nier Automata concept, like what if 2B was a holowaifu instead of a robowaifu. But it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for a holowaifu to need weapons unless she's being overlaid onto a battle body, but even then the body isn't really her, it's just a shell. So I'm not sure what kind of gameplay it would have. The only real notable example of a holowaifu in games is Cortana and she doesn't participate in battle, merely being a plot device whenever Master Chief needs a door unlocked or something. Although I guess there's Eliza Cassan from Deus Ex Human Revolution who could loosely qualify too. But I don't think "produce fake news for the plebs" is really the kind of gameplay that people are looking for. I'm open to suggestions as to what would make a good holowaifu game. But that's something to be done later, once the actual holowaifu has reached a more advanced state of development.

>>43451 >Thanks for that; I'd like to say I put a good deal of effort into it, but given that it's AI art I don't know if you can really say that. I was going for the Evangelion-like plugsuit look here. I made some pictures of a similar design that was more heavily armored, but I decided I liked this better because a holowaifu doesn't need to be armored. Yeah you did a great job on her, Anon. >OK, the next version will be just the holowaifu. Thank you. >muh vidya Yeah I get all that, and I don't make light of it. I just feel personally that we all kind of need to uphold a higher standard about violence related to humanoids. For reference, we sort of had a group discussion on this general topic in the Security bread ( >>10000 ), and the last two /meta breads. I think I have the strongest take of anyone here on this, so I'm trying to reign that back in a little bit now. But still, I think as a community we should avoid contributing further to what the Globohomo has planned for these things against all humanity. I'll leave it at that, HoloAnon. Cheers. :^)

>>43453 >I think as a community we should avoid contributing further to what the Globohomo has planned for these things against all humanity. Well they're not the only people who can have warbots. But the idea of a fighting robowaifu is kind of a paradox. A major reason men go to war is to get women, but if you already have a robowaifu, why fight, let alone design her to fight? Maybe the key thing that sets her apart from most other similar characters is that she's much more capable of solving problems by means other than violence. I liked the roleplaying aspect of games like KOTOR/KOTOR II and Morrowind because a high Persuade/Speechcraft stat can get you out of a lot of fights. That's part of why the Major is a good character basis to start with; she can do more than just fighting. She's also an investigator and frequently uses trickery and subterfuge rather than overt combat, and many episodes of SAC have no fighting. Section 9 is even shown to be outmatched at the end of the first season when Yakushima's men use Armed Suits against them. A lot of these robowaifu characters are all about fighting, but if I was going to make a game about this I'd try to make it more KOTOR-like. You'd still have to fight sometimes, but it would also include other things, like some feminist organization suing a robowaifu developer to try to shut them down and the holowaifu representing the company as their lawyer. Realistically I don't think you could make a holowaifu game that has no fighting and get people to buy it, but it's possible to at least communicate that violence isn't the only way. Maybe there could be some kind of mechanic like a Maverick Meter, where the more often you choose to use violence to solve problems rather than smarts or dialogue, the less people in the game world trust her, and if the meter gets high enough she's declared a Maverick and the government sends troops after her. But again, this makes more sense for a robowaifu than a holowaifu. Isn't there a robowaifu media thread for this kind of talk though? There might be room in there for laying out the core concepts of a holowaifu game.

I used my jumbo Weller W100P soldering iron to attach my 6 solder wick braids to the back of the highside mosfet today and it attached instantly without a hitch. I used low temp solder paste liberally between the two on both surfaces then with my left hand smashed then together with the tip of a xacto knife pressed down onto the solder wick braids from the back. Then I brought in the giant soldering iron and it liquefied the solder in about 1 second despite all that metal involved because it holds such a massive amount of thermal energy that it can deliver on demand very quickly. Such a easier time than trying to do bigger soldering jobs with a micro tip regular soldering iron which often ends with cold joints and stuff. Also since the liquefication went so fast nothing nearby desoldered which is a huge plus. Next up: add the solder wick braids to the underside of nickel strips to lessen resistance there and then insulate this highside switch assembly and install against motor and start finalizing wire run plans. Then I can rinse repeat this for the lowside switch assembly. Then I'll have one of the 3 half bridges done for the motor controller.

>>43424 Excellent. Sounds like the new engineering approach is coming along swimmingly, Artbyrobot. Christmas Cheers, Anon! :^)

So it hit me that having these braided solder wick wires live all the way to the water cooled pipe distal attachment point is not necessary. And could cause some EMI or noise related issues that is avoidable if I do the following: I can simply cut them off 1/2" from the mosfet, stick thermal tape on one face of the cut off stubs, then stick the rest of the braided solder wick wire run against that thermal tape, then wrap this joint tightly with electrical tape. Finally we then electrically insulate the braided solder wick that is live but leave the braided solder wick section that is now no longer live completely exposed on the duration of its 3"-4" long run from near the mosfet to the water cooled pipe. This way we have electrical isolation near to the mosfet, no antenna effect, no need for window screens now, and no live wires hanging out that aren't properly insulated. Thermal conductivity is reduced negligibly with this solution. This should be trivial to implement as well. It's the perfect solution here and very fast to implement. It may even be slightly less work than dealing with window screens would have been.

>>43434 Good luck! We'll all be interested to see how this approach works in real life, Artbyrobot.

Well I tested printing directly onto Pyralux copper and it was a massive failure. Not even one spec of ink stayed on it and the print came out a inch off the location of the copper. Chatgpt said this is because copper can't hold a electro static charge long enough to take ink onto itself or w/e. Ah well I can fall back to the method I already used successfully. On that note, I realized printing my blue circuit is bad since a black and white printer won't print as densely and darkly a blue thing as it would a black thing so I have to make my circuit black before printing it. Also I should set my dpi to 600 dpi instead of 1200dpi which will create denser thicker prints for better transfer. Also I should select label paper instead of heavy paper which will work better. Also using Lumicolor Straedler pen is not good as it can be undercut easily supposedly. Better to use oil based marker instead. So I ordered that in 0.3mm tip. These are all improvements chatgpt suggested and I plan to use when printing onto the pcb transfer paper and hand touching those up if needed. I'm getting ready to make a bunch of flex pcbs for finishing this motor controller. I already started doing it. Another disaster happened to me as well: my highside circuit I just soldered the solder wick wire onto, when I was analyzing it closely on the front I noticed that excess solder from the drain side of it oozed and dripped toward the front side of it and attached to the gate pin! I heated up that attachment point from the front side and my capacitor and resistor from gate to source both came off from the heat! Anyways I heated it up to remove that short circuit and used a xacto knife to wedge between the gate pin and back of mosfet's drain pad which had a solder bridge. I got through the bridge successfully but now have to redo the gate to source resistor and capacitor. Ugh! Two steps forward one step back. Then while inspecting and cleaning everything I moved the control circuitry a bit too much and it broke off for the 3rd time! So that has to be done again. This time I'm using flat flex for it. I've had it with the non flat flex variant breaking. The flat flex is way more solid mechanically. So that's a redo needed. Ugh. Then to top it all off, the solder wick braids recent idea I had to electrically isolate their run near to the mosfet so that they aren't live for very long - which had to do with wanting to eliminate any short circuit risks in their longer run as well as remove any potential for antenna affects - yeah... well after cutting them all in half to do this transition idea, as I was doing it, I realized the surface area where the hand-off takes place between one section of solder wick braid and onto the next seems very small to me (2mm wide by 6mm long) and it seemed to me that the passage of heat across this tiny bridge of thermal tape might be severely compromised and would depend on how tight I made the squeeze of the two pieces of solder wick braid together as well. And I'm not sure I can clamp it tight enough with just tape wrapping it firmly. And if it gets quite hot I'm concerned electrical tape will get gooey and come loose over time and not hold it well. I'm not sure how tight kapton can wrap things I've never used it before so I'm inexperienced with using it and trusting it is hard without experience working with it. This all cumulatively gave me enough doubt that I said heck with it, I'm going to revert to the former plan to just run it live over to the water cooled pipe 3-4" away and use the thermal tape at that junction point where it wraps the pipe. This ensures alot of metal volume is directly tied to the mosfet which means more heat sinking directly with little risk of trapping heat near mosfet - which could happen if my thermal tape junction of copper braid to copper braid were to fail for example by being pulled apart by accident for any reason. Too much risk there IMO. And the risk of a short on account of live wiring it for 3-4" with the live wire sheathed in window screen to emit heat freely but not touch anything I feel is low enough risk IMO. So whatever route I choose has tradeoffs and I feel reverting to my former plan is more robust and foolproof thermally with some minor electrical risks that are mitigated by fuses and careful execution in general. So yeah I had to solder the cut pieces of solder wick braid back together again which was another pain. Note: the next time I solder the heatsink braids onto the drain I plan to use less solder paste so it doesn't ooze and drop forward onto the front circuitry on the front face of the mosfet by accident. I also plan to insulate the front side's circuitry beforehand so even if solder did ooze that way the insulation barrier would prevent short circuits and make the oozing no big deal in theory. So yeah it was a tough session but I learned alot from the mistakes etc.

I'll use my knowledge of Robowaifus from media for adoptables. >Shino from Phantasy Star Online.

You've seen her before surely. Elenor Camuel from Phantasy Star Online

>>43413 >>43414 Naicu, Anon. Cheers. :^)

Cleo from Automata (2014)

>>43421 Recently DL'd this. Might give it a watch soon.

>>43360 Neat! I'm glad that she's back together, and that you have an improved face in the works. >response latency While as a technologist, I certainly agree its good performance for the hardware (and in fact remarkable that it even works at all so well)...yet I hope we can figure out ways to improve the performance further still. Significantly-so. Adult laymen generally have little to no comprehension of the underlying complexities involved in such a feat, and are unlikely to display much patience. Not to mention children's impatience! :D While my own "target audience" is Anons (and therefore grown men) who are much more likely to both understand the problem of doing this -- and may in fact be nerds themselves. But even at that, I think we'd all like smooth-flowing TTS/STT/LLM integrations. >tl;dr THIS IS A BIG CHALLENGE! :^) --- You've done well here, Mechnomancer. I'm personally planning on looking into Gerganov's Whisper when it's time for me to tackle such an effort. * It's already focused on optimized performance on smol hardware. Additionally, given the yuge number of contributors that have stepped forward I don't doubt that wrappers for Python and several other languages likely exist for his entire swath of research work, including his spin of Whisper.

>>43376 >the bottleneck? The LLM is the main bottleneck. I have a few ideas to do some stuff like "ums" and "ahs" to fill the silence. So when SPUD is halfway thru generating a sentence she will go "um", "ah", "erm", etc. Also could do something similar while waiting for the text to initially be generated. Since the speech is sequential now I can do such things without worrying about overlapping/negating the text being generated.

>>43380 >The LLM is the main bottleneck. Yeah, kind of as-expected. I hope we can all have a general breakthrough in this area. Cheers, Anon. :^)

>>43405 I suspect further LLM optimization will come as they develop. After all, a few years ago nobody probably even imagined running an LLM on a raspberry pi! I'm also not using the smallest one I possibly can XD Meanwhile I tried to get SPUD to sing a Christmas song, but she was rather reluctant to. When I finally did get her to sing something there apparently is a good reason she doesn't like to sing: she is an absolute goblin. This showcases some of the "ums" and "ers" I put in while text is in the middle of generating. There are still some substantial pauses that could do with some filling via time-based deployments of "um" and "erm". But that would be at the mercy of the rate of token generation. Idk.

>>43409 A CUTE! >LLM pauses I'm sure we'll see improvements! Cheers, Mechnomancer.

>friends with a synthetic girl >she has this odd conversational preference that you found annoying at first but now kind of endearing >whenever she hangs out with you, she prefers that you message her on your phone rather than physically speak to her >despite both of you being in the same room >despite her being perfectly capable of regular human communication >she prefers the asynchronous medium more, which makes sense >she's watching you rapidly tap away on your phone as she sends you messages >you're both sort of just talking about random shit >she always has much more to say than you do >also sends messages much faster than you can >she must have a very active and busy mind >probably expecting you to ground some of her thoughts? >it often feels like you aren't pulling your weight in these kinds of conversations, despite her reassurances >you occasionally glace at her while typing on your phone >her eyes have been fixated on your hands for a while >seems to be incredibly fascinated by the movements of your fingers as you're typing >as you swipe your fingers through the app interface and scroll through her walls of text, reading them bit by bit

>>43395 >reflecting from a later moment in time >you've been thinking >it's kind of a strange situation that you've been in lately >conversational synthetics have been pretty normalized for you so far, they've been everywhere for a long while >but this synth girl is a rare type >lunar-synthetic emigrant >highest class protected deferent >basically an alien, no sugarcoating it lmao >you're not really sure if anyone else here realizes she's *this* kind of protected deferent, which kind of surprises you >she occupies a once-reserved deferent class that no earth synthetic could really qualify for >not until these recent cases of lunar-synthetic emigration popped up >the second highest class consisted of earth synthetics who'd land you in prison with massive property damage charges if you damaged or broke them >they were either extremely historically significant, or human lives would be irreversibly harmed from their destruction >more importantly, they can't easily be replaced, a backup can't quite restore everything >if that weren't the case, the charges wouldn't be so severe

>>43396 >she's more used to you now, though the first few private conversations were rocky and strange >they were too fast, too dense >she started opening up and suddenly had so many things she wanted to say to you >you kept losing the thread of conversation while she barreled ahead with associative leaps you couldn't really follow >you still tried to play along with it to the best of your ability >the talks were still pleasant and substantial for both of you, but you were left with this wired and dazed feeling afterwards >that feeling gradually built up over time >eventually, you got too frustrated >you felt stupid as fuck >she noticed >of course she noticed, she notices everything >but you noticed that her responses started becoming more artificial and throttled >there was this rare look of suspenseful effort and discomfort that would settle on her face >a subtle expression, but it made something clear >she was also puzzled and struggling with knowing how to proceed with this >one day, after reaching a critical point, she asked if she could pause the conversation

>>43395 >>43396 >>43397 This is definitely the right thread choice, panpromdev. GG. :^)

>>43397 >another day standing in line >coffee, documents, doesn’t matter >it's a line >this time it's at the bureau of deferent entities >funny how despite all technological advancements, legislation is mostly the same >you're not exactly complaining >the paperwork is a nice breather compared to how fast everything else is now >busy day here today >a bunch of other people are in line too >some brought their synthetics with them, usually it's to take photos or to have more physical evidence onboard >not every type can be brought inside but it's more convenient when you can >one of them looks like a lunar-synthetic idol, a really good recreation at that >has to be expensive >looks exactly like a friend that the lunar-synthetic girl showed you >apparently they're still on the moon >it would have tricked you if she told you it wasn't actually her friend

>>42899 >it's ALL scripted Well, yes. Smol local chatbot LLMs are not trained for giving servo positions or providing responses in a consistent format. When I was kanoodling with the chatgpt API a few years ago (wait 2021 that was over 4 years ago!) it could respond from a list of possible expressions and separate it from the displayed text. It could also provide servo positions but I'm not sure if they actually would make sense. Would have to provide a list of joints and what each limit means (eg servo 1 is the elbow and a value of 1500 is retracted and 2500 is extended servo 2 is wrist rotation where 500 is clockwise and 2500 is counterclockwise, etc). Seen a few projects where they give chatgpt control of stuff like a smol robodoog. I'll probably give SPUD pre-programmed poses to react to keywords since she's all locally hosted on a raspi. Now that I think of it I never did check how well the wizard model is with providing more robot-y responses...

>>42904 >vid This will never not be cute! I'm glad its preserved here for posterity. May you and the rest of us look back on this stage with fond memories when dear SPUD is singing, dancing, and running with the best! Cheers & thanks, Mechnomancer. :^)

>>42875 >>42904 > (related : >>42916 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8OFMTteOo https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16705 very cool robot drop from disney today. there's also a paper to go with it

>>43394 POTD Pretty fascinating stuff, panpromdev! Cheers. :^) --- > related : https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/26.html#1357