>>41122 Very cute!

>>41122 POTD This is off to a great start. I sense dear SPUD is going to be very-popular with time. Cheers Anon. :^)

>>41122 >No idea why GPT-chan decided to give SPUD elf ears when I specified "Chobit ears" but if I had to guess nobody has introduced chatgpt to images of Persocoms. If the model doesn't have chobits in it, it will make something up.

Mech anon. While your robot is mechanically impressive you might want to be a little more delicate with it than your mechs. Ik ik working with silicon SUCKS. But it’s the difference between something thats cool and doll forum users spamming your inbox.

>>41156 Nice model. Moar.

>>41156 I have once again been teaching chatgpt things (and fed your pic to the gptbeast lol). Im surprised nobody has taught gpt-chan about the appearance of chobit ears. All well. I can just shoop GPTs ear rendering onto the other pics easy peasy. SPUD is gonna end up kinda like your pic: squishy torso/thighs (eg foam & fabric covered) with mechanical arms/shins. I once sewed a complete military uniform shirt for a Hakke Andre cosplay so I got some experience there (sadly no Sono Bisque Doll schenannigans). Working on an off-SPUD prototype to work out all the quirks with padding so I can have a nice display model for dear SPUD and keep SPUD in display-able condition in the meantime. Will probably re-work some of her arm wiring so when I dress her in costumes I can just remove her arms: they're a pain to wiggle thru sleeves. >>41138 One of the pre-programmed voice commands I gave SPUD was related to asking for a weather forecast. Ask for anything weather related and SPUD would respond with "Do I look like a weatherman?" People loved the sass. I'll see if I can get the local AI model to respond in a sassy manner as well.

>>41182 >People loved the sass. That's a good sign, Mechnomancer. >...Will probably re-work some of her arm wiring so when I dress her in costumes I can just remove her arms: they're a pain to wiggle thru sleeves. Totes makes sense. Good thinking, Anon. >chobit/chatgpt adventures pic Lel'd. It can't seem to get the idea straight that these are supposed to be robotic, technical, non-living ears. Maybe instruct it that this is a plastic shell that can 'clamshell' open?

>>41182 >give it an example >still can't do it WEW, here take this.

Got SPUD a new outfit in the Halloween section. Can still tell a bit that she has no padding under there. Temporarily removing her arms and head make it easier to get outfits on because those bits don't exactly have human proportions. She looks more animu now, at least. Now to re-wire and re-callibrate the arms servos.

>>41639 Naicu! >in the Halloween section. Good thinking. I remember Anons discussing that idea here before. Glad to see it works. I hope it's inexpensive (relatively)? >She looks more animu now, at least. Sailor power! :D >Now to re-wire and re-callibrate the arms servos. Please keep us here up to date with your progress for dear SPUD, Mechnomancer! Cheers. :^)

>>41640 >I hope it's inexpensive (relatively)? Outfit cost $25. Half the price of 1 of SPUD's 4 shoulder servos. I realized why the outfit looks so weird: no boobles! So I put back on SPUD's magnetic boobles and she looks much better. Even if I don't get her arm servos re-wired/calibrated she's still functional enough for display: she is all contained in her noggin atm except for a USB-C powercord and USB extension for the microphone. Maybe I'll wire up the toe servos lol.

>>41645 Very cute

>>41647 >Very cute Oh really? lol (plz excuse the poor lighting)

Is there a way you could make her smoke? I want to smoke kush in front of cops with my waifu just as Tay would have wanted.

>>41645 >Outfit cost $25. Great! That's around what I figured. Take good care of it, these cheap costumes are typically fragile. I presume you sew (what with all the amazing things else you've done!) :^) >no boobles! THIS. Gynoids need a good pair of booba! :D That does look a lot better. I'm assuming you don't have the special padding suit on underneath? Good that you're able to rm her arms & head easily. >Maybe I'll wire up the toe servos lol. DOOEET!!

>>41639 >>41640 >>41645 >>41651 Very cute! I love her new outfit. It's really great seeing SPUD get developed over time. >Good thinking. I remember Anons discussing that idea here before. Glad to see it works. I hope it's inexpensive (relatively)? Galatea's outfit is from a cosplay maid outfit

@Mechnomancer good job on /g/ (salutes)

Just a quick update: got image recognition and object detection running on SPUD that feeds the results in a friendly format to the LLM. No idea how the LLM will react, tho.

>>41730 POTD Excellent advance, Mechnomancer! Looking forward to seeing where this goes with integration of an LLM. Cheers. :^)

>>41730 Nice!

>>41730 Could this solve the symbol grounding problem?

>>41758 >symbol grounding problem Silly philosophy IMO. :D But yeah, if you want to hop onto that merry-go-round, then I'd say that no, this doesn't in the least solve this """problem""". All those textual tokens Mechnomancer's system is spouting out are -- you guessed it -- symbols! And the digital signals inside the C++ engine code of OpenCV? Symbols. And the digital, visual lightwaves impinging themselves onto the CCD die inside the camera itself? Symbols. >tl;dr >"Very clever young man! But its symbols. Symbols all the way down!!" <---> And that question is far more about 'philosophy of reality' IMHO, than it is what the CS/AI guys try to spin it as. God defines reality. He spoke this one into existence, and one day he will remove the Word of his power, and all this will vanish in fervent heat. What then!? :^)

>>41759 >"Very clever young man! But its symbols. Symbols all the way down!!" In God's thumbprints there are mysteries

>>41759 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia There is a reason they are called feeling.

>>41760 >>41761 Heh, yeah I'd say you yourself have some really engrossing insights in this domain of "signal symbologies", Mr. Cyborg! :D <---> Cheers, Anons.

>>41761 >Synesthesia Not as much fun as you'd think.

>>41765 I have auditory tactile synesthesia. It is both a gift and a curse.

>>41765 I personally think it's kinda one of those mixed blessings. Most things are, you know. :^)

>>41767 I do have some of the more usual ones, such as a taste being a color (tomatos taste green btw), numbers having personality (the number 2 is a snooty little shit). But having synesthesia with human microexpressions and body language can be trippy.

>>41795 >the number 2 is a snooty little shit It's funny, I have a similar thing with math problems. I agree with the guy in the pic, 8 x 7 = 56 really does have a football/military kid vibe. 9's time tables feel really edgy and high tech. 4 gives me classic Ivy League programmer vibes, the type to sit in a chair by the fireplace and smoke a pipe. Probably since it's used so much in artificial construction.

>>41761 >>41765 >Synesthesia I don't experience synesthesia myself, but for some reason about 20 years ago I thought I had it, because inexplicably, whenever I played the original Zelda on an emulator there was a strong musky shit-like smell that went away immediately whenever I wasn't looking at the screen. It's weird trying to explain that I don't normally have synesthesia, but playing Zelda 1 smells vaguely like brown. And now I can't help but associate synesthesia with Kanye West / Tame Impala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKWlEej2j5Q

>>41812 Everyone has it to some extent. Go look up Allen Snyder.

Printed off a new face for SPUD: bigger eyes and upgraded the mouth mechanism. Mouth is just a tab that sticks out like a toungue, but flush against the face with a mouth texture on it. She can now look more unhinged or owo, depending on pose. Had to re-glue 3dprinded bits of the eyelid rack so I might have to wait a few days before callibrating the servos again. Still have to glue on her giant eyebrows, too.

>>41841 A Cute! In your 2nd pic-related, I see the mouth in two different positions, but I'm unable to detect the seam for the nutcracker chin assembly to move up and down. Is this two different prints? Regardless, great to see you making progress with dear SPUD, Mechnomancer! Please continue to keep us all up to date. Cheers. :^)

>>41842 >I see the mouth in two different positions, but I'm unable to detect the seam for the nutcracker chin assembly to move up and down. Is this two different prints? Face is a single print. The mouth graphic is a separate little panel that slides out of a slit along the mouth line (and should always be poking thru slightly). No nutcracker seam required. SPUD is giving off Furby energy in the pic lol

>>41841 Truly amazed at how far you've come. She's looking cuter than ever! Using aspects of animation is paying off heaps. It's amazing what sliding a few elements around each other can do.

>>41841 This looks unreal. You were able to have a 2D character stay 2D, yet also be 3D. Amazing! >>41846 Five Nights at Mechnomancer's

>>41855 >It's amazing what sliding a few elements around each other can do. Eyelid has been attached. Now the smug levels are off the charts. Unfortunately the rack isn't meshing with the servo gear and I've misplaced the prints of new ones, so I'll have to manually pose the eyelids for now. >>41856 > You were able to have a 2D character stay 2D, yet also be 3D. Why have realism when you can have better than realism? How about a̶n̶ ̶e̶l̶e̶p̶h̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶b̶l̶u̶e̶ ̶e̶y̶e̶s̶ waifu-ism?

>>41846 >>41861 Ahh, now I understand! Thanks, Anon. BTW, @GreerTech is right: this is a great solution to the problem of IRL facial animation. Simple, yet effective & cute. I'd call that elegant! Cheers, Mechnomancer. :^) <---> Karakuri I'd recommend to you and other'nons here getting one of these papercraft toy books (I have the one listed; its high-quality cardstock paper cutouts inside). This is an ancient tradition of making child's toys from paper, and I feel it can inform some of our efforts here if we give it a chance. Super-inexpensive way to do things. * Cheers. :^) https://takemy.money/mechanical-paper-animal-toys-from-japan --- * And ofc, cf. our own Papercraft Waifu thread! :D ( >>271 )

SPUD's face is more or less calibrated, I just need to adjust the mouth panel as it is fully retracted, but still sticking out giving her a poggy/soy face. For ease of use I'm just using gorilla tape to hold her face on lol. And as usual mouth servo sounds are amplified due to phone audio silliness.

>>41883 Very cute

>>41883 Nice! Could the shaking be lessened?

>>41883 Naicu! Very responsive reactions. I forget, are you accounting for speech/mouth synchronizations yet, Anon?

>>41888 >robo-parkinsons Major reason for the shakes is the mouth linkage hitting the eye panel (picrel). I'll have to either a) move the mouth panel down so the mouth linkage doesn't have to go as high or b: move the entire face down so the mouth linkage doesn't have to go as high. Each one is just as annoying as the other. >>41894 >speech/mouth synchronizations yet, Anon? yeah, I was just letting the lip synch service run the last "simon says" she did. I forgot to charge her bluetooth speaker fren so no audio. It's basic mouth flaps based on the amplitude of the .wav file. I might try to smooth out the jaw motion a bit. I couldn't figure out asynchronous code very well so I just run 2 python scripts (aka separate processes) at the same time in different terminal windows (or 1 in thonny lol): 1 for the lip synching and 1 for the LLM/voice commands.

>>41900 >Each one is just as annoying as the other. What about changing the linkage itself? >>41900 >I might try to smooth out the jaw motion a bit. Looking forward, as usual. :^) >I couldn't figure out asynchronous code very well so I just run 2 python scripts C++ has numerous solutions, but I'm not too sure about Python. Does it support even just multithreading rn? Regardless, great progress! Keep going, Mechnomancer. Cheers. :^)

>>41901 >What about changing the linkage itself? There isn't a lot of room behind the face for additional bits (picrel), plus no new bits my printer is clogged and I have more exhibitions to get ready for in the upcoming weeks. Just wanna get SPUD back operational. Might just readjust the mouthpanel or add more onto the eyepanel so it slides over the mouthlinkage instead of colliding. >Python multithrooding? Theoretically, yes. In various ways that are different for nerdy technical ACKSHUALLY reasons. But for unknown reasons some libraries literally won't work when multi-threading (or subprocesses or whatever) in the same script with other libraries for some magical juu juu technical reason. Will probably get around to setting up code to automagically start/stop other python scripts program thingies.

>>41902 Ahh, understood now. Well I hope you get it all sorted before your upcoming exhibitions. Regardless, I think dear SPUD will be a hit for you, whether or no. >Will probably get around to setting up code to automagically start/stop other python scripts program thingies. That might work. Good luck, Anon! Cheers. :^)

SPUD explains some of the things for me. Have 2 image recognition libraries running: 1 for objects, one for general environments. I have to do a few adjustments to make, such as her eyebrows wriggling when she talks and (eventually) some eyeball adjustment, but she's functional and looking better than she did :)

>>42014 POTD Very exciting to see this part working more smoothly, Mechnomancer. Cheers. :^) FORWARD!

>>42014 Nice! It's really cool to see the near completed prototype. It's definitely good enough for promotion, that's for sure! She is right, robowaifus are here to stay!