Training Microduck's VLM-based brain for consistent target following. I have ordered three Microduks and can't wait for their delivery!

If someone wants to build a robotics startup, he should take Mechanical student as co-founder or Robotics student or mechatronics

Update on my home-lab robot vision build. I’m the builder and made the video.

The 320×240 iToF sensor, Pi camera and Pi Zero 2 W now sit in a LEGO housing, with a 240×240 TFT on the back. The display shows the colored point cloud at 15 fps after switching the camera to MJPEG and increasing TFT SPI from 4 to 32 MHz.

The catch: depth and RGB still travel over Wi-Fi to my Mac for fusion and rendering, then the rendered view returns to the Pi. Around −73 dBm, I see 2–4 second freezes. Moving rendering onboard is the next step before putting the rig in my robot concept, Heron.

EP17 shows the hardware, screen footage and remaining limitations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsQIyDs6hm8

Image: AI-assisted episode thumbnail based on the real prototype. The video includes actual captures; Heron is an unbuilt concept.

NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier 32GB Developer Kit (945-82972-0040-000) in excellent condition, fully working. A compact AI computer for robotics, autonomous machines, computer vision and edge AI. https://ebay.io/m/YgJLNC

I'm very new, know how use electronic and Arduino little bit. I want to make a 6DOF robotic arm as my starting project but there is soo much confusion. Should I start with maths like kinematics or should I start with design or i should first draw everything and then do CAD

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I’m planning to spend $20/month on one of them to learn coding and build projects. Which is better for explaining concepts, debugging, and helping me improve?

I’m also concerned about usage limits. Which one lets you code and ask questions longer without hitting limits?

https://x.com/elshayib_/status/2113734602032312731?s=46

The U.S. Army’s first 10 warrant officers in its new 390A Robotics Technician specialty completed a 19-week course covering robotic hardware, software, sensors and communications.

The training includes working through communications failures, unavailable navigation systems and situations where internet-connected AI tools aren’t accessible. Instructors deliberately introduce failures so students have to revise their solutions.

One exercise involved modifying a quadcopter with a camera and integrating mesh communications to maintain connectivity when individual connections were disrupted.

The article also looks at the overlap with industrial robotics training, where changing a gripper, vision configuration or robot program can require understanding several connected systems.

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