>>44485 >which to me, means Chinese parts + an open model is going to be sufficient in a year for many usecases. I'm not too certain about the claimed timeframe, but otherwise I think you're right, Anon. Thanks!

If any of you remember that Peripeteia game from 8/agdg/, one of its levels had these molodost enemies which were pretty obviously inspired by Kibo-chan. Well, apparently Segawa found about it, because now he's making a real-life molodost.

>>44498 POTD Lmao. I'm not sure I'm ready for dear Kibo-chan's 'dark villain' arc, but the lore here is top notch. Thanks, Anon! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI-E1IxfCv8 One of us! One of us!

>>44816 Thanks, Anon! I like the way he briefly demonstrates assembly, and that he has provided code. Cheers. :)

>>44697 Galatea's looking better with each iteration. It's been exciting to see her rapid paced evolution. Hope to continue helping her become a useful entry level robowaifu. Given the high speed and low cost of production, I could really see her catching on in the future. I do think she's still a few generations away from being accepted by the general public. People are far pickier than any of us. If you can keep improving her to meet mass market tastes, she has tremendous potential.

>>44752 Thank you! >Hope to continue helping her become a useful entry level robowaifu. I'm glad and grateful for your help! I hope I can repay you with MaidCom >I do think she's still a few generations away from being accepted by the general public. People are far pickier than any of us. If you can keep improving her to meet mass market tastes, she has tremendous potential. Do you have any advice for this? Maybe something I could clarify or show off during my promotion?

>>44243 no, it doesnt exist. a film is not the object of the film itself. also droids are bad graphics, maybe you just instincttively excuse it because the market is cruel to you now.

>>44765 >no, it doesnt exist. I'm speaking from a technical standpoint: back in the day movies like the phantom menace was distributed to cinemas via a physical can of film. A physical object was transported to the theatre and fed through a projector. Now, most films are sent digitally to theatres. There is a difference in color composition between digital files and a physical medium. A more obvious comparison can be seen comparing color schemes between cel and digital animation (and some series at the time combined both with obvious results). You can do this experiment yourself: print out a picture then take a picture of the printout. Then compare the picture you took to the original digital file.

Anyway, the Big C ordered us to not fight. That would be what the evil enemies of Christ want.

Ok so the Relife RL-UVH902 UV fast cure solder mask order has arrived and so has my order for a Relife UV curing light to cure the solder mask quickly and effectively. So now I just need to solder mask off that little trace that goes under the half bridge IC chip.

>>44700 Intredasting. Please let us all know how this works out for you, Artbyrobot. Cheers.

Ok I managed to apply the UV solder mask today and it seems like it worked quite smoothly. I used the tip of a small sewing needle to spread it over the trace and then held the UV light on it for 10 seconds to play it safe. I used transparent UV solder mask so you can still see the trace but its a bit more murky/cloudy when you see it. I used the tip of an exacto knife to put little scratches on the UV solder mask to test its thickness by feel and test its durability a bit to scratching. And ensure it was fully cured. It was very hard and durable and seems to have gone on fairly thin. The question is, is it too thick/proud of the surface for the soldering on of the chip over it? This is the million dollar question. Because if the mask lifts the chip up off the PCB even a tiny bit then the soldering may not reach between pads on the IC and pads on the PCB, failing to bridge the distance. That is my main concern. If I have any issues with that, I will have to reroute this trace to go around everything rather than on the shortest path like it is now. The shortest path leads it under the IC and led me to have to mask it. Extra steps like this are a bit annoying. I kind of wish I just routed it around everything out of the way more. Then I would not need to UV solder mask at all. Perhaps in a future board iteration I will do this improvement but we'll see. For now I made several boards and want to stick to them since it would be more work to remake them all.

Ok so I had multiple failed attempts to solder the chip on. Despite pretinning the PCB, on both attempts when the solder went molten the chip did not center itself and lock into place as would be expected but instead slid out of position significantly both attempts. After the first attempt I assumed it was the outlet bus/landing pad on the left side of the board that was to blame - it being a larger solder mass than the other solder masses on the other edges of the board - causing the chip to slide its way harder and pulling it off center. However, even after cutting off that part of the board entirely and trying again I still had the chip slide out of place during reflow attempt. It's unclear to me the cause of the issue at this point. I put on AMTECH tacky flux that expired in 2022 onto the pcb and then placed the chip as close as I could to centered and then put it onto a hot plate for cooking food or boiling a coffee pot those AC electric hot cooking plates. I had the heat set to max on there. The first time I had the board on the whole heatup time period and watched it gradually smoke off flux vapors and eventually the solder go molten and then I switched off the hotplate but it didn't matter since the chip slid 5mm off center. The second time I added it after plate was much hotter to avoid so much flux burnoff during the heating up process. I also added some flux while it was molten after which time it slid off center. Perhaps that was my mistake? Not sure. In any case, after the failed second attempt I cleaned everything up really well and chose to hand solder it. This seemed to go better. For this process, since both chip and PCB were fully tinned and no shorts to my knowledge, I proceeded to line up the pins the best I could under max magnification and then while pinching it in place I held my solder iron tip onto a trace near a pin for 5-6 seconds to get the solder very hot and hopefully locally heat the whole trace up to and under the IC's pad. I did this for trace after trace. Then to clean up since it was I guess cold joints at this point I applied flux and drag soldered all around every edge. This cleaned up the appearance and got all flux properly seated on traces since it was drifting a bit in the previous step and looking quite sloppy and bad. I did not want to have flux involved during the initial alignment phase and tacking down phases because once that is on I cannot see well the alignment from the sides since the flux blocks my view. Even without the flux its hard to see the traces and their alignment with the pins of the chip. The chip does not have pins is the problem. It has pads on its underside and little pads on its sidewalls. I have to use the sidewall pads as to verify the pads on my pcb line up with those and any flux in the way prevents me from seeing this clearly even with max magnification on my visor. So anyways yeah, this whole thing was a bit of a disaster but MIGHT have ended ok in the end. For now hand soldering instead of reflow looks like my best bet at least until I can figure out what i'm doing wrong... Note: I'm not sure if the flux expiration matters I haven't looked into what that means for performance. Note: I still have no way to verify all joints are good until I test the whole finished PCB I guess. And my confidence they are all good is a bit low. Sucks that I have to invest even more time to finish the PCB while doubtful it will even have reliable connections at present ugh! Note: I had to remove the trace from the previous post that ran under the chip because during my reflow and cleanup from failed attempts while cleaning some of the solder mask came off and I just wanted to remove that potential short or source of issues as a variable entirely for now. I can always run a bodge wire to reconnect those two points of the board later on.

>>44774 The species reflects the amoral system that generated it, intelligence can potentially stop the zero sum game for the majority which would make us even less evil. Predators still exist because evolution fucking loves them, that seems to be fundamentally built into the world, a longer term kind of problem. Not much else we can do.

>>44762 POTD >Do we really need more compute? Seems like we have enough compute already, if not too much. >If anything, we need less compute, and more optimization. Well-spoken, GreerTech! I hardly need remind any regular here the massive datacenter approach is (((by-design))), ofc. >"Plenty for me, but none for thee." as is commonplace with these wretches. >tl;dr Only pursue opensauce projects that are focused entirely on edge computing, such as ggerganov's work * is my advice, Anons. Cheers. --- * Developer of the famed llama.cpp https://github.com/ggerganov

>>44756 Hello, Anon. It's an interesting question and one we've delved into extensively here on /robowaifu/ , as @Greentext anon pointed out. >AGI Don't hold your breath! :) >>44760 >but I'll leave it up for now and let Chobitstu be the final judge on the matter. Heh, I'm inclined to let it stand if neither of you two have objections. Later we can merge into a larger-scoped thread if we need the thread-budget headroom? In the meantime, as long as the thread remains active with discussion I don't see the harm in it.

We need a subject for this thread if we're going to let it stand alone. Suggestions?

>>44784 "Beyond LLMs"

>>41265 >I want to clarify that I'm not asking out of a drive of anonymity >>41267 >kyc regulation If you actually do care about anonymity (like myself), then the payment processor needs to operate outside the 14eyes domains; as @Толкач and I were trying to establish before he got steamrolled here. I have no ideas how to do this, but he clearly does. --- I'm not sure you Anons truly understand (yet) just how vicious and literally murderous the kike mafia truly is. CYA is the word here. Cheers. :^) https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/26.html#1252

>>41269 Don't get me wrong, I would absolutely love for it to completely anonymous, and if it can be done, that would be amazing, but as far as I know, with a completely anonymous system, you basically have to communicate and decide beforehand that you're sending money, and that money is coming from you. That would be hard to do on a mass scale, since you would just see a wave of anonymous recipients, and nowhere to send the product. Maybe on the blockchain you can have a system where you can analyze the blockchain for the ledgers, and be able to send files?

Very interesting perspective on how Japan avoids credit card monopolies https://youtube.com/shorts/q7Ph1vaE8kQ

>>43575 >post about a way to break the payment processor monopoly >immediate fed you-know-what posting hmmmmm

>>43575 Similar, a list of ways to do commerce online without payment processors

Found this interesting TTS engine. >"Kokoro is an open-weight TTS model with 82 million parameters" https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS Seems like nice quality.

>>44301 Kokoro is good, there's still not much any better options for low-cost tts iirc. If you have some VRAM i really vouch for omnivoice.cpp though, big TTS like that brings accurate voice cloning with a single 5-10 second reference audio. It's perfect for waifus, and even allows mixed english/japanese. Omnivoice.cpp has really good inference for what it does, i went from ~1.25 RTF on sovits/omnivoice to wondering if it's even necessary to stream TTS output anymore at all. It's also less of a mess than python projects, and for amd, it entirely circumvent the rocm pytorch hell with vulkan. Tbh at this point i believe we local bros are genuinely ahead of SOTA when it comes to software waifus offering, i'm sure i'll get better than stacks like llm/gemma4 + threevrm + omnivoice.cpp if open source keep going strong, but damn am i glad we got here, lol. Only need hardware to catch up at this point.

>>44693 POTD Thanks for the encouraging eval, Anon! Cheers. :)

>>44693 >Only need hardware to catch up at this point. that always been the million dollar question This complaint is decades old. Even in the 1970s AI researchers were already saying the main bottleneck was computational power. Same thing in the 2000s when gaming companies kept saying “we just need better GPUs.” Guess we just do the best we can with what we have now. Let the future wonder what we could’ve done with better tech.

>>44706 I kinda worded that badly as i meant to say specifically hardware/physical robowaifus as opposed to software waifus tbh, i didn't mean compute power, which both needs. But yeah compute power... companies have been investing dozens of billions given that the chance of making a leap similar to gpt-2 to gpt-4 yet again without scientific breakthrough is very likely with simply more compute, but if after that leap it can't train itself that's where the sci-fi stuff stops if i have to guess. Anyway, here's some zero-shot cloning tests attached, converted to mp3 for upload, so i can pretend i'm still on-topic, lol: thep_calm.mp3 : orginal jp sample (9 second) thep_eng_hi.mp3 : jp -> eng test (omnivoice) thep_eng_tendou.mp3 : jp -> eng test 2 (omnivoice.cpp) It's jp -> eng so it's goofy compared to eng -> eng or jp -> jp but it's cool it's even a thing to begin with. It still feels like basic bitch vocaloid at times but it does get bits of the character's intonation from short, mid samples alone :D, no fine-tuning or long audio needed.

>>44591 Added.

>>44592 Thanks!

Added namefagging note into the OP.

Added to the preliminary shots before starting assembly of the CartWaifu basics: https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/55.html#1540

Thread stub for CartWaifu Project: https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/1563.html#1563

Joseph Hamill - Biomechanical Basis of Human Movement f297e466ab5935d2a0d231180db8e0d3

Posting this here about mental math because of the pinned thread suggestion: >Look for things we don't know, but should know. Just wanted to share some tools that helped me improve my mental math speed and accuracy. My small lurker's contribution. Practice is key: Mental Math Secrets (YouTube - Math and Science): Best structured course I've found. This month it completes 16 years. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnVYEpTNGNtXV56n2ywgUYpRz1y0BAb9x Math Tricks Workout (app): Great for practice and building speed. Mental Math Master (app): good for overall practice and accuracy. Math Trainer (mathtrainer.ai): go-to PC/browser option.

>>44456 Thanks Anon, great addition to the RoboUni thread! Cheers. :)

>>44658 >Tensor Calculus >related: https://www.youtube.com/user/eigenchris https://redirect.invidious.io/user/eigenchris

Intredasting stuff about underwater ROVs. https://poseidonrov.com/blog

>>44453 POTD >I was thinking of making a new thread; World interaction, aka "But can she make a grilled cheese?" Yes! Please do so, GreerTech. --- We still have some thread budget headroom rn. My chief concern being you can't have a good project thread w/o pics/vids.

>>44452 >"do you Anons think a tred on Trashchan is OK?" Any'non else? Yea or nay?

>>44452 >>44467 I forgot that you can't post images here. Trashchan sounds good, and I'll be sure to start keeping an eye on the board there now that it's being properly used again.

>>44468 >I forgot that you can't post images here. Heh. Yeah, Robi spoke about making a special accommodation of the block for /robowaifu/ at my request. Hasn't happened yet, however. I'd much rather make my project thread here on the main board. >Trashchan sounds good OK. Another 'yea'. >and I'll be sure to start keeping an eye on the board there now that it's being properly used again. You wouldn't need to watch over it particularly Greentext anon. I'll post links here when I think anything of importance/interest has happened. Thanks, Anon. :)

>>44452 >I suppose I need to start a project thread until completion, to serve as an auxiliary one for the MaidCom thread? >>44453 >Yeah that would be nice >>44468 >I'll be sure to start keeping an eye on the board there now that it's being properly used again. Well, I still haven't started a thread yet but I've at least made time to assemble a shot of the basic gear components today: https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/55.html#1522 I'd appreciate any questions or input on this image, so we can begin formulating a good thread OP. Cheers, Anons. :)

>>44611 The primary issue is that they don't have 'the standard flora & fauna' of a healthy vagoo (no need for us to go into unhealthy ones here yecc, gives me the ick). This allows disease microbes to flourish if Anon is lazy. To wit: the local environment becomes an 'unoccupied niche' ripe for takeover. What they need is an auto system to flush the onohole out from the inside. With a good antiseptic flush, they can at least be held at bay.

>>44612 Yes, but an inbuilt one requires a robowaifu smart and capable enough of either getting into the shower or the toilet. Perhaps that system could be used with a removable vagoo, with a disinfectant rinse, then a water rinse to remove the disinfectant. Obviously, this works better with a vagoo that has a removable lid on one end and a tube-like construction. The bottom line is, you want it to be as easy and as thorough as washing your hands

>>44615 You also have to choose the right disinfectant. It has to be strong enough to remove a substance designed by God to stick in crevices, but not strong enough to dissolve plastics. Maybe soapy water is the best. I'm thinking a desktop pump could work, like a water flosser but bigger.

>>44616 You probably want to also blow dry the vagoo to prevent internal moisture

>>44615 >>44616 >>44620 All very good points, GreerTech. I imagine the process similar to any other regular maintenance task, like charging/swapping her batteries. Some type of SOP needs establishment (often involving specifics such as location & sequence) for this and other such tasks. Cheers.