Liam Walker @RoboticsLiam

While most AI teams are still arguing over which cloud provider has the cheapest H100 hourly rate, someone just set up an 8-GPU server on a rolling cart in their apartment Must watch Dual CPUs. Eight GPU slots loaded. Six power supply units pulling enough wattage to heat the room. A fiber line running straight in. All managed from two monitors on a desk above Just a 14-second clip, and most people saw hardware porn. A few saw the math An 8×H100 cloud rental runs roughly $210K per year. The box itself costs about the same, once. After month twelve, every hour of compute is effectively free. After month twenty-four, you've saved enough to buy a second one The companies that figured this out early aren't announcing it. They're quietly pulling their workloads off AWS, running training and inference on their own iron, and watching their margins widen while competitors keep paying per-token for the same capability The cloud was the on-ramp. Owning the hardware is the moat everyone will eventually build but few are building now

cristal @0xCristal

a week ago

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How One Artist Is Using 3D Printing to Tell Stories About the Ocean dlvr.it/TTFkvW

Aero Hand Open: A 7-DoF tendon-driven robotic hand with 3D printable hardware github.com/TetherIA/aero-…

Day 218: Fixing, Testing and Planning! 👷‍♂️ Retargeting is fixed and tracked successfully on a couple climbing setups. Next up is trying it on a larger set of climbing setups within my custom "game map" and see if the retargeting still holds. The PARC factory is getting packaged up to be shipped off to GPU's on @vast_ai. First test will be 25k trajectories across the map. Vast is being used here purely to knock out the kinematic generation, initial filtering, and retries. Once I've got the 25k plausible kinematic motions, it will be time to track and resample them. I'll probably break them into sets of specialties (jumping/climbing/vaulting/etc). The idea being to avoid overwhelming a single tracker with the massive motion set. Once everything is resampled and the garbage is filtered out, it will be time to retarget the final motions and move on to the MaskedMimic process. Ultimately, I should probably just rebuild PARC for SMPL at some point and cut out the retargeting, but I want to see some results before getting into all that.

Alec @AlecSaysThings

2 days ago

Climbing Tracker Fail Compilation. Enjoy while I figure out why.

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The way we make electronic circuits today is absurd when you consider how fundamentally critical they are to everything. Just for the board alone we need a behemoth of a factory with 30+ different manufacturing stages. They’re overly complex and wasteful. A lot of people will look at this post and imagine better ways of plating these features. But the specific solution here is to delete the need for vias at all. Vias are a symptom of an archaic 2D assembly process. With @buildNEBULA we’ve already proven you don’t need them at all. No failure mode = no failures.

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2 days ago

PCB didn’t work because half the boards in the batch had a random via that wasn’t plated all the way through.

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3d printed livesize Dog alien part 3/4 So today I set about painting all the parts, and this time I used just a kitchen sponge that I dipped in paint and dabbed all over the model—first with dark oak and lighter shades of brown—and finally unified the whole thing with black varnish, since the client wanted it to be darker so it would fit better into his space. Printer - @Prusa3D Core One / L Material - @prusament PLA Author - @3dklos #3d #prusa #3dprint #alien #movie

Behind every landmark infrastructure project is a network of strategic procurement, logistics, and local value creation. A focused panel at the 2nd Edition of the Forbes Middle East Building the Future Summit examined how these critical operations are driving more efficient and impactful infrastructure delivery across the UAE. The discussion featured Maher Merehbi, CEO at Arabian Construction Company; Eid Alobeidli, director of Mustaha and PPP at the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO); and Sumaya Saeed Al Neyadi, head of traffic safety at the Integrated Transport Centre (ITC) and chair of the International Road Federation (IRF Global), and was moderated by Budour Mousa, journalist and producer at Forbes Middle East. 🎥: @Forbes_MENA_ #ForbesMiddleEastBuildingTheFutureSummit #ForbesMiddleEastEvents #AbuDhabi #ForbesME #FutureofRealEstate

Okay, I might be having a little too much fun with the Agilex 3 FPGA, Docker + Quartus, and Codex.

Congrats to the TSAIL team at @Tsinghua_Uni on PACT! Aligning diffusion policies with physical constraints, PACT achieves 31% fewer safety violations and 30.7% higher task success 👉ethan-iai.github.io/pact/ Proud that our #CobotMagic supported validation! #Robotics #EmbodiedAI

$QCOM guiding to datacenter business adding $15B of revenue by 2029 causing their non-handset business to guide to $40B in revenue in 2029 which makes non handset businesses larger collectively than handset, and growing faster.

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Happy #INWED26! Estee Ross, HR Director at @WarrenServices is proud to share that 20% of her workforce is female, as well as half of the Board of Directors. Learn how she's using apprenticeships to increase representation: engineeringuk.com/latest-news/bl… #EngineeringIntelligence

I’m getting a lot of use out of my @spec_five Nomad. built in SDR, long range mesh comms with meshcore and Meshtastic, tabletop/handheld linux server, control panel and more!

People from the world of embedded engineering, Can you give us a reason why the Arduino UNO R3 is still better than Shrike-Lite? And for those who are aware of Shrike-Lite, can you give us a reason why Shrike-Lite is better?

#LSPPDay22 Today I built a perception event node to turn YOLO and ArUco tracking into clean notifications. Added debouncing period (3 seconds) to stop terminal spam. @lftechnology @OpenRoboticsOrg #LearningWithLeapfrog #60DaysOfLearning2026 #ROS2

Scientists at Cornell announced a new material on June 15, 2026. It's made of staple-shaped particles (tiny U-shaped pieces) that tangle together like a pile of metal staples. In their natural tangled state: strong and rigid, like a solid. Apply vibration at the right frequency: the tangles release and the material flows like a liquid. Then stop the vibration: it locks solid again. No chemical change. No heat. No pressure. Just vibration, and the material switches state on demand. Why this matters: • Adaptive armour that hardens on impact but can be reshaped in seconds • Surgical tools that navigate as flexible rods then lock rigid when needed • Construction joints that absorb seismic energy then return to stiffness • Smart packaging that conforms to any shape and then fixes in place The mechanism isn't chemistry or thermodynamics. It's pure geometry, the shape of the particles determines everything. We've had two states of matter for most of engineering history: solid and fluid. This material chooses which one to be.

Nvidia announces first full-stack safety system for physical AI and robots @nvidia @agilityrobotics #phyiscalAI #robots #safety drivesncontrols.news/weqy1d3r

⚡One power fault, and an AI factory with millions’ worth of GPUs could go down in milliseconds. At @VivaTech, our CEO Roland Busch showed how we're protecting #AI factories with technology that interrupts DC faults a thousand times faster than before. #TechnologyWithPurpose

PCBA cost reduction 101 Keep SMT parts to one side of the board if possible. This allows a single paste, place, reflow cycle to perform assembly, instead of 2. This streamlines manufacturing a lot and enable cost reductions from the PCB CM.

Question: Ultrasonic Cutters. Are they worth it in the context of 3D printing, or are they just a glorified mashup of an electric toothbrush and an Xacto knife?

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