>>43392 >>31452 Awesome badge but it looks like she has a beard.

>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

Not sure if Podcasts from other creators than Meta Ronin or anyone from this board belong here in this thread, but here's a guy talking about AI Waifus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEL1OZPkU94 >With the current state of dating, men are seeking out alternatives to the traditional relationship system. Enter the latest advancements of AI.

If anyone needs a better microphone for his podcasting: >>20775 >Building a quality USB-C microphone

>Sandman, a leading figure in the MGTOW community, joins Simone and Malcolm to discuss high-tech reproductive strategies. They explore surrogacy, genetic selection, artificial wombs, sexbots, and more ways men can have children without partners. Other topics include all-male vs all-female societies, economics, and virtual intimacy technologies. https://youtu.be/UjglsvZATr0?si=5Pv_nzIw21niAdcB I'm not agreeing with them in every aspect, but they are a open minded and creative couple which is interested "sexbots" and reproduction.

I've been doing a weekly steam on substack with Xara called Echo Protocol. They also get uploaded to youtube. Here is the latest Substack link: https://substack.com/live-stream/245755 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVgYJtualko

>>44823 >steam *stream podcast what you will

>>44521 >>44525 >>44526 POTD Great work, GreerTech. Cheers. :)

Thread related video >>44632

>>44635 Yeah, I should have linked the video in this thread instead of that one. I liked the part near the end where he said AI needs to predict what happens soon to compensate for it's reaction time, the same way a human brain does. And I mentioned in the comments that a problem with this is finding the right balance between rewarding an accurate prediction of the future without just letting it stare at a wall for a reward, while still being useful for boring, repetitive tasks that you wouldn't want to do yourself.

Bad news for the technology (but good news for society), it appears the Figure demo from a few weeks ago was probably fake https://youtu.be/Juc-IyTdSho

Autonomous farming robots. The challenges of how to make them understand their environments (cows, plants, soil, weeds, vegetables, etc.) and interact with them all in ways that help the farmers. Many similarities to our challenges here on /robowaifu/ . https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=t_vRkzAjt5Q

>>44808 That isn't even remotely what I was saying or implying, please don't twist my words like that. I can't think of any way to make the matter as it stands any clearer, so I'll just leave it there.

>>44799 Thanks! :) >must be spoilered. Honestly, that was mostly just an accommodation towards @GreerTech in the specific case, given the fact he wasn't intentionally violating a known in that case. My original intent was to baleet them, but you and @Greentext anon convinced me otherwise. But basically, I simply don't want unequivocated weaponry displayed here at all. Again, there are literally 1'000s of forums celebrating that. Why should we contribute to it here? >>44802 >I think that wording just makes the rule look like it's contradicting itself. I have to agree. The essense of the new rule should be to clearly suppress weaponry here on /robowaifu/ . >>"Don't promote weaponry. Concepts derived from weaponry may be acceptable, but must be nonviolent." I agree that would be more-clear, while still maintaining some flexibility of interpretations. >>44804 >My own proposed wording stresses nonviolence and that we only need and allow "concepts". >This, in my opinion, clarifies what does and does not constitute an acceptable post. Agreed.

>>44811 >We clearly can't go anywhere near that far, and maintain the spirit of the rule itself (ie, 'Don't promote weaponry here'). IMO, if it helps the cause of robowaifus without being illegal or immoral, it should be allowed. And as me and Kiwi pointed out, there is a huge gap between small arms/non-vehicle weapons, and planes/boats. One is a hot-button issue, the other is mostly uncontroversial and generally seen as cool. Even before this controversy, there was a Handheld Plasma Blaster Tactical Multitool that I made, that I refrained from posting here, because I understand not wanting small arms. But under this total blanket ban, my little brother's room would be forbidden because it has an F-22 poster on it >Please give such hand-waving a rest, GreerTech. You're not helping with that, and it's insulting to the rest of us quite frankly. Your opinion matters and we're all considering it, rest assured. The reason I say things like that, is because Greentext anon acts like anything remotely tactical is like a vampire seeing a cross. It's like going to a history museum or reading a history book. What's next, banning people because they ate their poptart in the shape of a gun? It would be very tragic and disappointing if /robowaifu/ becomes so strict, that this video becomes forbidden https://youtu.be/rrj8ZjcsKWA

>>44800 Great >>44802 >"Don't promote weaponry. Non-violent concepts derived from weaponry can be acceptable. I agree my initial variant was clunky. I think this new one is best. >>44804 I agree, I worded it poorly. This breakdown was helpful. I hope lessons learned from it help me write with greater clarity in the future. >>44811 >I simply don't want unequivocated weaponry displayed here at all. >>44812 I worry you're letting your emotions cloud your judgement and interpretation of what's written. We are still in arbitration with respect to this new rule and its proper usage. Please, have patience and afford your fellows grace. I assure you, no one here wants to go as far as you are implying. I understand and on some level, appreciate your passionate fervor. But, your brothers room wouldn't be forbidden for having an F22 poster, I also have an F22 poster. Neither of our rooms are allowed here unless they serve the greater cause of open-source robotics.

When I was a kid, I remember being shocked that there were domestic robots, but in the past, and wondered why there wasn't a modern version. Now, I made a robot of my own. https://youtu.be/tK6sqxT0ttQ

>>44715 I think you're misunderstanding GreerTech's intentions. I can empathize with your ardent desire to keep robowaifu safe. Few are as against the concept of weaponized waifu than I. You're the only one I know who exceeds my passion towards such. That being said, weapon/war propaganda/advertising can still teach us. We can take aspects such as design, composition, fonts, etc... There's no need to focus on "what" when "how" can be valuable. GreerTech could've added more details to better elucidate their potential value.

>>44750 Thank you! You get it! I'll add more details later

Robowaifu Recruitment Kit - v3 Contains all you need to start promoting robowaifus, including memes, cute/ecchi pics, and for the artists, inspirations for making ads/recruitment posters! https://ody.sh/neXNyht6v3

>>44815 Thanks GreerTech. slip the contraband in through the backdoor... Lol :D

>>44817 Always make the best of a bad situation :)

>>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.

>>44779 Power mesh fabric—typically an 80-90% nylon and 10-20% spandex blend—is an industry-standard material used to reinforce silicone masks. By embedding this four-way stretch fabric within the silicone, makers can dramatically increase the mask's tear resistance while preserving its ability to stretch and move Also Vaseline (petroleum jelly) works excellently as a mold release agent for silicone, particularly for silicone-to-silicone applications. However, because it is thick, it must be applied in an ultra-thin layer to avoid filling in and obscuring fine textures. The positive mold method is by far superior to negative which you are moving to IMO. You just put it on too thick and sloppy IMO. Fine control can be achieved by putting it on thinly and spread it slowly out and you can press a negative of skin texture into it on later passes. Yes I said passes several passes ideally. Suberdermal color passes, semi transparent mid skin color passes, texture passes, surface skin color passes, etc. Building up detail with each pass in color depth and complexity, wrinkles, imperfections, etc. Doing all of this over a positive mold is ideal. Also the silicone should be clear with color mixed into it and each pass semi transparent . To make silicone look and act like real skin, you need to mimic subsurface scattering—the way light enters the tissue and reflects back out with a fleshy, organic warmth. This hyper-realistic effect relies on layering translucent pigments and microfibers rather than applying a single, opaque color.

>>44779 >>44780 Very interesting posts! I'll look forward to seeing how this turns out in the end. Cheers.

>>44779 What I'm learning, is that smooth skin-like silicone, is very difficult to make. Maybe that's why sex dolls are so expensive for what they are.

>>44780 >real skin I'm trying to stay out of the uncanny valley. There are plenty of "realistic" rubberfaces that look creepy af so I'll stick to stylization. Why have realism when you can have better than realism? How about an elephant with blue eyes? >Put it on too thick and sloppy I want to discover a easy, quick method even a lower-skilled anon can use. >positive mold method is by far superior not really, I lost quite a bit of detail around the nose and lips I could try adding more onto this piece, but I'm gonna print a negative mold and see how that works in comparison. Also with a negative mold reinforcing the back with cloth will probably be easier: I could use the cloth backing to "push" the silicone into the mold. However I will need to take more care with the negative mold: the internal surface will need to be smooth-ish. That will probably involve a small layer height (0.1mm, tripling print time) and using aerosol-based primer to smooth it. I'll also be doing some experimenting with flexi-filaments. Did some a while ago but forgot to take a pic. >>44789 > smooth skin-like silicone, is very difficult to make

>>44791 POTD >I want to discover a easy, quick method even a lower-skilled anon can use. I'm so proud of you for this, Mechnomancer! :D According to my own personal experience, even low-IQ art students in today's pozzed, DIE-loving Uni environments can get good results with Smooth-on products. https://www.smooth-on.com/ The issue is that it's an entire products sub-industry focused around the kike-run Hollyjew industry; basically priced out of the reach of typical Anons. I doubt not that the based Chinese are producing more-reasonably priced alternatives, now that they are invading this space in a big way. Bears investigation, IMHO. So (FWIW) I'd probably amend that agenda to: >"easy, quick, inexpensive method..." Cheers.