Tim Smith
@timbotdotnet
Systems hacker / "full stack" SWE / wannabe CNC machinist. Pixel Camera team @ Google (opinions my own etc etc)
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Reason #26 why doing inference on-robot is dumb (unless, say, the robot is a two ton vehicle barreling down the highway): x.com/YunTaTsai1/sta…
Designing an inference chip for robots is actually very difficult. In data centers each chip is bathed in jacuzzi and babysat by nannies. If they died it would be hot swapped by one of their clones. The fault rate of GPUs in datacenter is actually quite high. Industrial average…
The shop's homemade security / activity monitoring system is coming together! It's a mix of a bunch of gStreamer pipelines / MQTT with a Frigate backend for recording/detection. The cams with RPi4s and POE HATs. I probably could have gone much simpler on the software side, but…
There's a lot of existential angst among SWEs about the future viability of software engineering as a career. My take is a combination of 1) Thomas's take (these are powerful new tools that will shape the way we write software) and 2) there is so much software needed by the…
I need to spend $3k on some sort of cohesive purchase, within the next ~30 days I already have a 3DP, desktop CNC mill, laser cutter, LumenPnP, and as of last week, a @RackRobotics EDM power core and tool head. My top two ideas so far are: - A GPU PC rig (3090 or refurb Mac…
What an absolute flex. On top of everything else, Jim is the nicest entrepreneur I've ever seen interviewed. x.com/jimbelosic/sta…
Our unsophisticated operation does $100M/yr. You can just do things.
Today's progress. There's going to be more shuffling around, and I'll probably reassemble some of those racks to make a little stock cuddy, but things are coming together.
All my fellow wannabe electric motor manufacturers, get in there and vote! x.com/sendcutsend/st…
According to 2k customer submissions and ChatGPT analysis, these are our top most requested materials, which would you like to see us add next?
Every two years or so I look into streaming video from a Pi and every two years it always comes back to GStreamer... 😂😂😭😭
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