Aditya Kamath

It's from Agility robotics

HaloPad V2 (Adafruit Macropad Enclosure) by Kronocide | Download free STL model | Printables.com 3D printable enclosure for the Adafruit Macropad PCB, inspired by the Nuphy Halo 96 keyboard | Download free 3D printable STL models

Link to the case: www.printables.com/model/762609...

The rear board needs to be removed for installing the case, so I also printed a stand for it as it's such a lovely design

I wanted a physical keypad to control effects on #TouchDesigner, so I got my Adafruit MacroPad RP2040 out of storage and printed a nice new case for it. Add in some colorful key caps and it's a work of art! Software is WIP

I'm definitely thinking about it, also mostly for the robotics session..

Forgot to post here, I cleaned up my TouchDesigner network and added some filters and effects

Turns out I cannot add a photo and a video to the same post. Here's my setup, next step is to visualize the IMU on top

Weekend project: combined my new hobby (generative art + Touch Designer) with robotics using the VL53L5CX ToF imager sensor. Modified my #ROS driver to also publish messages using the OSC (Open Sound Control) protocol and added effects on #TouchDesigner

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Well it hasn't helped me in engineering so far but it is indeed a lot of fun! On the other hand, my engineering background does make it easier to understand TD concepts..

2024: A year in review Robotics highlights, a new hobby and future plans

Just hit publish on my annual recap of all the fun projects I did last year - includes a lot of robotics (work and hobby) and #ROS, including trips to #RoboCup and #ROSCon 2024. I also talk about my latest hobby of generative design using #TouchDesigner.

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Happy new year everyone! 🥂 #Eindhoven

Bought a fancy new multipen (2 ballpoints + 1 mechanical pencil) as an EDC on a recent trip to Cologne, but then ended up with a broken finger and now can't write for 2 weeks. FML

Turns out I cannot attach more than 1 video to a post. Shame.

This video isn't sound reactive but still pretty cool

Oops, have been forgetting to post the results of my #touchdesigner experiments here. Here are some of my favourites, two of them are sound reactive. Based off of tutorials by @pao_olea_ (on Twitter)

#visualart
#soundreactive

Day 8: youtu.be/LrtCb3N-iMg?...

Day 7: Raymarching with RayTK youtu.be/CfCvsLkuvwc?...

Day 6: youtu.be/3ptfQFkNaHc?...

Day 5: youtu.be/d7mYSwj2OWU?...

Day 4: youtu.be/6fF1fXeDNxo?...

Day 3: youtu.be/rcrW-A27VYo?...

Day 2: youtu.be/WCPv27M_LLE?...

Day 1: youtu.be/feVTWJCPWes?...

I started learning to use #TouchDesigner a few months ago but then got busy with other stuff. Yesterday I picked it up again and am challenging myself to follow a 15-20 min tutorial on YouTube each day. Here are my results:

(I'm also posting this on Twitter, sorry for the spam 😅)

I'm using Cursor IDE - the free version which has a limit. I also use Copilot for which I've got a license

Thanks for attending my TED talk, happy hacking!

3. You are in charge of telling AI tools what to do - so you need to know what you want. And you need to be specific and provide a lot of context in your prompts. You are in charge of the creative stuff, and AI can handle the boring programming stuff really well.

2. Use open-source frameworks and tools. In my case, part of the PoC is implemented with #ROS. AI models are trained on publicly available material, and most open-source tools have tons of publicly available documentation and code.

For applications like this, there are a few things to remember though.

1. It is extremely important to understand programming / software architecture. AI isn't always right, so you need to be able to understand what it generates and correct it when it makes mistakes

I'm so fricking impressed with how good AI tools have become. I'm working on a new product idea (more details coming soon) and managed to build a proof-of-concept over a weekend using Cursor and without writing a single line of code. I only provided prompts and reviewed code 🧵

Ngl, I still do kinda like the old toxic place. Bluesky is nice but I also like some drama 😅

PS. Muting Musk and staying away from American politics makes it much better