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Early Business Ideas Robowaifu Technician 05/13/2020 (Wed) 22:36:03 No.3119 [Reply]
So those of us getting ready to make prototypes are still pretty far away from building the $2000 kits that we need to buildm. This sucks because we are going to be spending a lot on the initial investments, but I think I know how we can make a little money on the side to help on the side; twitch and fansonly. Betas and simps give their money to thots all the time on those site I'm positive they would give money to a crude prototype especially if it offered something unique. Bonus points because we are making money of simps, and we are taking business from thots. If you have any idea on how to make money in the early stages feel free to share them, anon. > related thread: >>1642
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From October last year: >Brian Zhan, investor at CRV, talks about which AI companies CRV has been investing, and where he sees trends going moving forward. >Outline 00:00 Brian, Charles Rivers Ventures 01:26 Investing In Nvidia? Maybe Not The Right Time 02:28 Main Trends In AI Applications: Automating Work, Entertainement and Creativity 03:23 character.ai: Insane User Growth In GenZ 04:40 Text Engagement Hints At Even Bigger Multimodal Engagement 06:00 There's No Need To Have The Best Models, Just Fine-tune GPT-4 08:06 Exciting Infrastructure Layer Startups: Model Serving 10:00 AI Databases, Vector Retrieval At Scale, Image Databases 11:32 ML For Enterprises, End to end language model serving 12:15 Hugging Face Filling The ML Consulting Gap 14:38 What Brian Thinks About The Long-Term Risk Of Human-Level AI https://youtu.be/40nXnZnocnA >>29598

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Here's a video about the "factory" a guy made to make controllers for carnival rides and Halloween shows. Of course complete robots or kits for them would be far more complex devices, but if you are thinking of setting up your own small (to start) business, it's a look at some of what would be involved, just a small example so you won't be completely overwhelmed and just give up. The Factory in my Shed: Backyard Manufacturing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXPJdgxmSiE
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THE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY IS REAL TODAY, GENTLEMEN. Best crack those books!! :^)
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY /ROBOWAIFU/ Robowaifu Technician Board owner 11/27/2019 (Wed) 17:27:05 No.1591 [Reply] [Last]
8th Birthday Edition greeting here: (>>34520) --- >original (albeit a bit edited) OP follows: Well it's Thanksgiving time again and that means it's /robowaifu/s birthday time too. It's been 3 full years since we began, and this last one has been a bit of a ride tbh. With the deplatforming of 8ch all of us who had communities there were mostly left out in the cold. Thankfully we've been given a new home here in our bunkerhome at JulaynuJulay, and a few of us have found our way back together here. Hopefully the rest of us will find Julay, and /robowaifu/ again as well. We've also made some new friends since we've been here, and I think we're in pretty good shape all things considered. On the topic of deplatforming, we have a new archival system in action that keeps a copy of the board up to date on my machine. Note that my original intent was to fully automate the archive.today archives, but it hasn't worked properly (they seem to be fighting against bots pretty hard now). I hope at least one other of you will also join in for the approach that's actually working, and use BUMP to keep at least one other copy of /robowaifu/ safe in addition to my own. You never know what might happen to my gear (or even to me), and it's just smart thinking to have at least two of us keeping this board safe. My intent is to finish up the system for board migrations (along with Robi), and then bring over other things from the old files and get this board in shape again. Then we can keep it fully backed up together. As you regulars know, /robowaifu/ is basically unique among imageboards and well-deserves preservation IMO. Any other takers for doing backups as well? I just use a cronjob and it's all fully automatic daily I never have to touch it. I'll explain everything in detail how to do it if anyone else wants to participate. One other thing; should anything ever happen to Julay, just regroup on Fatchan Anoncafe Trashchan in our bunker there. Actually, I'm pretty upbeat about both the world of IB communities in general, and our own /robowaifu/ in particular. We all took a hard knock a few months ago, but we're back on our feet and in the fight again. Kudos in particular to both Julay and Smug for their innovations with the webring introduction. It's lent a resilience to the underlying systems for all our various communities that we've never had before afaict. This alone should help to ensure we have a long future of shitposting together anons. Anyway moving on, I hope this coming year will also see a resurgence in everyone's posts here about their personal projects. I intend to do so myself. It's always a pleasure to see Anon's efforts and blog-posts about their current attempts and ideas, regardless whether they are successes or failures. Persistence is really the single most important factor for eventual success--even more than innate talent--and so just don't quit anon! Don't be afraid to get back in the game even if you met with failure before. Try something different this time, right?

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>>35138 Amen. So glad you're here with us, Kiwi! Merry Christmas!
>>35138 Amen.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, /ROBOWAIFU/ ! May this be the year you hug your waifu IRL Cheers, Anon. :^) <insert: cute catgril waifu in kimono w/ fireworks sky in background>
Happy New Year to all of you and may it be the year where everyone has their dream robowaifu
>>35239 This. BTW, here's my email, if you ever need it, Anon.

Prototypes and Failures #4 Noido Dev ##pTGTWW 01/23/2024 (Tue) 03:17:26 No.28715 [Reply] [Last]
Post your prototypes and failures. We fail until we win. Don't forget looking through the old threads here >>418, >>18800 and >>21647 to understand how we got to where we are now.
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>>35156 >the fifth time is the charm. Nice work, peteblank. Persistance is the key here. Cheers, Anon. :^) >>35165 Nice choice Anon! Looks really compact/inexpensive/manufacturable. Total win, Kiwi! Cheers. :^)
>>35186 yeah i gave up on making an iron core oh well
>>35200 Heh, that could be a good idea to IMO. OTOH, a) that was your choice (again probably a good one). And, b) doesn't in any way negate what I said, tbh. >tl;dr Find something more productive to pursue next time, Anon. Good luck, peteblank. Cheers. :^)
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>>35204 it technically worked. its so powdery it should be mostly iron. im surprised at how good the steel screws turned out...

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Robowaifu Simulator Robowaifu Technician 09/12/2019 (Thu) 03:07:13 No.155 [Reply] [Last]
What would be a good RW simulator. I guess I'd like to start with some type of PCG solution that just builds environments to start with and build from there up to characters.

It would be nice if the system wasn't just pre-canned, hard-coded assets and behaviors but was instead a true simulator system. EG, write robotics control software code that can actually calculate mechanics, kinematics, collisions, etc., and have that work correctly inside the basic simulation framework first with an eye to eventually integrating it into IRL Robowaifu mechatronic systems with little modifications. Sort of like the OpenAI Gym concept but for waifubots.
https ://gym.openai.com/
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>>35117 Right now, I'm not even sure how to do a full simulation of what I would want to build. I hope there will just be a general humanoid model that I can download and approximate mine to it. I don't believe in humanoid robots doing their movements through precise planning. It will be a guesstimate and then looking at the sensors while moving. The current Teslabot also seems to use a form of very fast neural network: https://youtu.be/xxoLCQTN0KA
>>35141 This and all the following until my post is OT in this thread.
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>>35179 I'm working on the cad for the body. Its important to me that it has an adjustable spine because that will play a bit part in making the robot flexible. I will share the cad but I don't and it to be public. I want to share it with people that will be working on this. Please invite me on github https://github.com/peteblank The choice of her body being thicc is not only because of preference but because it needs to house the components. The weight distribution will also be selected based on the center of gravity. The center of gravity should be on the middle(I think) I have a theory that it ought to have a decent chest weight to act as a counterweight for the spine pulling(think of the stability of pulling a bag of cement vs puling a wrench) I'm planning on making the test robot walk near the end of January. it'll have empty boxes on the chest to add and take away weights to test the balance. Since its been decided the simulation should be on isaac(i'd prefer gazebo because its the industry standard and you can get a job with it) Can't find any gazebo/nvidia isaac tutorials atm
>>35202 no seems isaac is the industry standard now. ok then.
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Open-Source Licenses Comparison Robowaifu Technician 07/24/2020 (Fri) 06:24:05 No.4451 [Reply] [Last]
Hi anons! After looking at the introductory comment in >>2701 which mentions the use of the MIT licence for robowaifu projects. I read the terms: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT Seems fine to me, however I've also been considering the 3-clause BSD licence: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause >>4432 The reason I liked this BSD licence is the endorsement by using the creator's name (3rd clause) must be done by asking permission first. I like that term as it allows me to decide if I should endorse a derivative or not. Do you think that's a valid concern? Initially I also thought that BSD has the advantage of forcing to retain the copyright notice, however MIT seems to do that too. It has been mentioned that MIT is already used and planned to be used. How would the these two licences interplay with each other? Can I get a similar term applied from BSD's third clause but with MIT?

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>>34551 The team behind BigCode released an AI training dataset called The Stack. https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-v2 >3.28B unique files belonging to 104.2M github repositories were collected by traversing the Software Heritage 2023-09-06 graph dataset. Additional repository-level metadata was collected from GitHub Archive data up to 2023-09-14. As part of their data cleaning process BigCode deleted all the repos they think are under a copyleft license. >The licenses we consider permissive are listed here. This list was compiled from the licenses approved by the Blue Oak Council, as well as licenses categorized as "Permissive" or "Public Domain" by ScanCode. The ScanCode tool works by keyword detection. If you say your project uses GnuTLS which is under the "GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1" it will think the entire repo is copyleft TL;DR: Choose LGPL or use an LGPL dependency.
>>34920 Heh. OK, thanks for the explanation, Anon. :^)
an all purpose robot has the revolutionary magnitude as the invention of the steam engine. Lets hope some money will come out if this but theres also people that measure their success on not only their monetary compensation but on the impact they had in the course of history.
>>34937 POTD >Lets hope some money will come out if this but theres also people that measure their success on not only their monetary compensation but on the impact they had in the course of history. I think I can state uncategorically that a significant portion of regulars on /robowaifu/ are dreamers, and we all think about the amazing transformation to civilization (indeed, redeeming it from the literal brink) that robowaifus represent, peteblank. Cheers. :^)
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CNC Machine Thread Robowaifu Technician 05/12/2020 (Tue) 02:13:40 No.2991 [Reply] [Last]
Many of the parts needed to build our robowaifus will need to be custom made and they will need to be metal. For parts that have a high tolerance for imperfections a 3d printer can print a mold and then a small scale foundry can be used to cast the piece with metal (probably copper or aluminum). BUT there will be pieces that need a higher degree of precision (such as joints). For these pieces a CNC machine would be useful. CNC machines can widely range in size, price, and accuracy and I would like to find models suitable for our purposes. I know there are CNC machines available that can cut up to copper for under $300, but I don't know if that will be enough for our purposes. (https://www.sainsmart.com/products/sainsmart-genmitsu-cnc-router-pro-diy-kit?variant=15941458296905&currency=USD&utm_campaign=gs-2018-08-06&utm_source=google&utm_medium=smart_campaign) Some CNC machines can be used to engrave printed circuit boards and that may prove useful for our purposes as well. Are there any anons that know more about CNC machines? Anons looking to buy one ask your questions here.
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Here's something related to parts building I've been thinking about, a lot, lately. Isogrids. Here's a killer link that I ran across talking about these. It's where I first heard of them. This guy made a surfboard out of quarter Isogrids of cardboard and then fiberglassed it. Now I'm not saying make waifus from cardboard. I'm trying to point out the extreme strength of these Isogrids. I read they have in some cases an order of magnitude strength to weight increase. That's 10 times or 10,000 percent better strength to weight. Now this is for traditional Isogrids noted in the last paper I linked. In a ballistic missile case they got, "...built by the Air Force Research Lab on the Combined Experiments program. This grid structure was 61% lighter, 300% stronger, and 1000% stiffer than the aluminum structure it replaced..." That is some serious improvement. But the real winner is this Quarter grid Isostructure that the surf board guy came up with. He says he thought it up but after looking around he found he was not the first. He's very humble because the idea is a killer good one that he stumbled on all by himself. Have a look at this super easy to build, high strength structure here, https://www.sheldrake.net/quarter_isogrid/ The key and big takeaway is this just a bunch of flat pieces with notches cut in them. So you could make this out of whatever flat stock you could get your hands on and have a super strong structure. One thing I noticed is that it's somewhat one dimensional structurally. But there's no reason at all you could not cut slots in three sides so that now you have a structure with slats providing strength in three dimensions made out of nothing but flat pieces with slots cut in them. A good search for stuff they are making of them is "quarter Isogrids" and "Isogrid furniture". They're making all sorts of stuff from them. More traditional Isogrids below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogrid Grid Stiffened Structures_A survey of fabrication, analysis and design methods https://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM12proceedings/site/papers/pap357.pdf
The above comment might be suited to be elsewhere. Arrrgh, but it sort of fits.
>>34492 Made a note linking this and a few ideas in the structures thread here, >34493
>>34494 Forgot a sign it's >>34493
I have a Shapoko XXL CNC that I have procrastinated assembling for literally years now. At this point I was thinking of just hiring someone to finish it for me, but having people in my apartment makes me uncomfortable.

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Nandroid Generator SoaringMoon 02/29/2024 (Thu) 13:54:14 No.30003 [Reply]
I made a generator to generate nandroid images. You can use it in browser, but a desktop version (that should easier to use), will be available. https://soaringmoon.itch.io/nandroid-generator Not very mobile friendly unfortunately, but it does run. I made a post about this already in another thread, but I wanted to make improvements and add features to the software. >If you have any suggestions or ideas other than custom color selection, which I am working on right now, let me know.
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Nice work SoaringMoon, please keep it up! Cheers. :^)
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>>31460 v0.9 - Sclera color is now customizable.
>>34154 Sweet
>>34154 Glad to see you keeping your project advancing, SoaringMoon. Keep it up! Cheers. :^)
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I made my Galatea design in the Generator.

Papercraft waifu Robowaifu Technician 09/16/2019 (Mon) 06:21:35 No.271 [Reply]
Thoughts on making a paper waifu then adding robotics? I want animu grills but, most robots have uncanny 3DPD faces that aren't nearly as cute as a real waifu. With paper/screens, at least the face can keep the purity and beauty of 2D.
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>>33827 >papercraft wifu shell Just in case you forgot or someone else wants a good source. I found the mother of all paper mache recipe sites by this Grandmother. It's a great resource for making things from paper. She has all sorts of recopies. Some have various additives so you can get better dimensional stability. For prototyping I don't think paper can be beat. Fast, cheap and once you have the shell or a paper positive you can create molds from more solid materials while keeping prototype cost to a minimum, It's at this link, >>33318
>>34113 Thanks kindly, Grommet! My plan ATM is simply to unfold my 3D models from Blender into 2D flats, print & cut them out, then assemble them all together /po/ -style. After coating or two, I can see using some type of papier-mâché coating to fashion a mold perhaps (as you seem to suggest)?
>>34131 That's seems like a super fast way to get results. And yes I do mean using P.M. for molds. I was thinking about doing this for fiberglass and boats. I got the idea from the "concrete fabric formworks" guys. Type that in search and look at some of the images. It's wild what they are doing. Low cost, high quality(most of the water drains out leaving far stronger concrete due to compaction) and they can do structures that the loads are designed in the form to be exactly where they are needed. Due to the curvature of the form it automatically forms the correct reinforcement where needed.
>>34147 >And yes I do mean using P.M. for molds. Yeah, thanks I thought so. >and they can do structures that the loads are designed in the form to be exactly where they are needed. We certainly need to take advantage of similar approaches, for similar needs within our robowaifus. For example, mounting these shell pieces on internal endoskellington struts, etc., could use some beefing up on the attach points. Thanks for all the good ideas, Grommet! Please keep them coming, Anon. Cheers. :^)
>>34131 I have a great link for those interested in flat structures to make 3D structures. The first link I messed up a little. I started reading in the thread farther down and people were talking about cutting flat stuff and materials and I commented before I realized the thread was machine tools. Sigh...oh well the post should be more in structures which I linked to later. Anyways here'a link to the post on making these flat "Isogrids" and then a link to some further ideas in the proper structures thread. Isogrids >>34491 Ideas about using them in structures >>34493

Waifus in society Robowaifu Technician 09/11/2019 (Wed) 02:02:53 No.106 [Reply] [Last]
Would you walk around with your waifu? Would you hold her in public? Would you shamelessly have her custody with you to conventions? Would you take her on dates? This thread is for discussing how you'd interact with your waifu outside of the home.
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>>34310 While it is a possibility, the clownhaired rabid feminist types are more rare than the internet would lead you to believe (part of their strength is the illusion of it). If your robowaifu is helpful beyond companionship (eg can help you carry stuff) that would make it more socially acceptable for normies... but even normies won't mind if it is a robot with some neat, fun features. When I've seen public robots, folks tend to leave them alone when they're accompanied by humans and respect the bot. Just try to avoid mentioning whether or not it is fully functional and anatomically correct ;) eg normie: "does your robowaifu have genitals?" robosexual: "do you?
>>34310 Its not the women I'm concerned about but their feral simp hordes they'll get to do their dirty bidding
>>34330 Well in that case, just defend your property. There's no stigma against hitting another man.
>>34322 >That is not the first post. Actually, it was at the time that Anon made that post. Between that time and when you read it, I merged that whole thread into this one (which then became the last few posts ITT). This is a mundane example of so-called temporal sliding. >tl;dr You're both right! :^)
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Robowaifu Media Propaganda and Merchandizing Anon 01/29/2023 (Sun) 22:15:50 No.19295 [Reply] [Last]
That Time I Incarnated My Christian Cat Girl Maid Wife in a Short Dress Together we can create the robowaifu-verse! Let's start making media to further our cause. There's tremendous potential for us to reach a wide market and prime minds to accept their future cat grill meidos in tiny miniskirts. We have text based stories floating around but, audio and visuals are paramount to gain a general audience. I will start with a short about a young man building a small cat girl and learning to understand her love. Importantly, she will be very limited, in the same way our first models will be. To set certain expectations. Mahoro is impossible but, the slow and simple robowaifus that can exist have their own charm. Let's show the world the love that will soon exist. --- >thread-related Robowaifu Propaganda and Recruitment (>>2705) >=== -add related crosslink
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>>33390 I think these lyrics aren't appropriate just yet, too negative, too stressful, too scary. We should stick to positive and calming.
>>33534 Honestly, thx for saying so. Soon after posting, I realised that last part probably wasn't very /robowaifu/ and the singer's attitude changes halfway through, fu-. I must have been more emotionally influenced than I thought - I'll keep that in mind. Just hope the first half wasn't too bad.
>>33534 This. The yuge complexity we're all facing is quite stressful enough all on it's own! :^)
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How can an AI be trusted? How could we prove that our AI is trustworthy? How would demonstrate that people should put their trust in the works of our members? What methods would we use to convey this to a wide audience? I still plan to post videos of myself with a prototype MaidCom once she is presentable. We need more, we need widespread belief that our way is safe, trustworthy, and worthy of public use. We also need to prove that Claude, Gemini, and other competing AI are less worthy. We need to open a path where FOSS AI is the mainstream. We need to do so fast, strike before they can regulate us into obscurity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUkHhVYv3jU
>>34287 Wow! That video was really cool, Kiwi. Thanks for sharing it! :^) <---> As to your question. Again, wow! That's a really, really tough proposition, Anon. BTW You sure this wouldn't be better in the Safety/Security, or Cognitive, or Philosophy, or Ethics/Morals thread(s)? I trust no man (or woman obvs, lol). Not even myself. God alone do I really trust with everything (or so I claim lol; how can one really know until 'everything' is put to the actual test? :^) But that's a matter of my own faith in God's deeds and words (which are innumerable!) So I think the >tl;dr here rightly is: We can't. Probably not the answer you wanted, but it's the one you need -- and it saves me literal years of fruitless searching (just like the fabled King, lol!) <---> OTOH, we have no excuses not to make our works as trustworthy and reliable as we can. OTOOH, this type of goal costs: time, money, effort, intelligence. These things tend to be in short supply in many Anons lives. But all can be either gained or supplied -- except time.

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