This hand code has been traumatizing me for too long, ive restructured it and began adding PID tuning for the motors to turn more smooth and human-like, ive also been trying to bug fix packet loss and random noise being sent back and forth, im going to begin working on the pcb and maybe a third version of the projects CAD! im really excited to finally be finished with the code and take a step back and look at what ive made, hopefully you can all take this step back with me
The hackathon is over now, that was one of the craziest grinds ive done in a really long time, but now that it’s over, it was pretty fun. New features: Tutorial and you get to pick between featherless.ai and claude api, I tuned all the gesture controls up so they work nicer, more gestures like zooming, photo capture, stop ai response. my future plans is going to be trying to shrink it down and fitting all in a pi or something mobile so that you can decipher what your looking at anywhere, no need for a laptop or keyboard!
These past few hours have genuinely been crazy, my code stopped worked, worked, and then broke again. I got it fixed in the end but it wasn’t for nothing, I added a few features! I changed the Claude API for Featherless.AI models, I made it more gesture controlled (no keyboard required!) and more quality of life features such as smoothing, better gesture detection. I am far from done but I dont have much time so I can’t wait to see what I can get done! (its a lot harder to draw than it looks like)
I started this project as a part of JecHacks Hackathon, where the theme was open ended innovation. This left me stumped for a while but I knew I wanted a project with Nvidia’s new LocateAnything model. So I laid the foundation for a software that allows you to ‘point’ at something and it can tell you whats inside. I plan on implementing the actual Nvidia model as currently its running on claude api, and more gesture controls for it to be fully keyboard free
Ive been cleaning ECHO up to publish him to the world! my main goals now is making him easier to install and use, my initial plan right now is to add a configuration menu/setup process, and wipe any personal data/influence on him and reset him to a base form that can model himself after his user!
I finished the very first steps of what GalaxyOS is going to be!
I Added a system settings app, a welcome page and live time features!
the systems setting icon is live and I intend to make all of my apps animated, just to keep the OS interactive.
Next steps:
Create more apps, and actually use them
add more background (maybe live backgrounds as well)
Personalizations features
Terminal
An app that allows you to write code to change the OS.
All in all i’m extremely excited to be working on this project and I can’t wait to see where my imagination can take me, especially for a project this open ended
Webpage refresh:
I added Css to make the website look a lot better and aesthetically pleasing, I also added a slider to allow multiple hands to be tracked.
For my next steps I want to add different texts boxes for each hand as currently it gets the percent openness from the least number, not the average.
This was my first ‘real’ project where I work on the design and printing, electrical and programming all of the same system, and its taken me all year but it has been one of the funnest things I’ve done in forever. Ive been working on this project on and off starting last summer, and it has been such an amazing learning experience, I’ve been working on the code recently but with the star dance challenge opening, I thought it would be good to post this here as I continue work on it. What I have here is going to be mainly focused on the programming until I feel good with it, then I’ll move on to and quickly finish the pcb. Please feel free to try out the hand tracking software and provide feedback!
Today I finished the bare minimum working model for the Echo Slack bot!
While I didn’t add anything special, I do have extreme plans to make echo a slack powerhouse!
This project was extremely fun to work on and I learn a lot of key features and how to use slack.
This log will be the first of many as I slowly but surely make echo into the most efficient and important slack bot!
Existing features:
✅ /dsb-ping-echo: This checks the latency of the connection
✅ /dsb-catfact-echo: Echo is very into cats and loves sharing new fun facts!
✅ /dsb-joke-echo: In Echo’s lighthearted manner, he will tell an extremely old Joke
✅ /dsb-help-echo: this command is going to be especially useful later down the line when more commands are being used
Future Implementations:
📥 Context clues: Echo will be able to respond based on the context of the last message
📥 Truth telling: Echo will have access to a magic 8-ball to see the future
📥News: Echo will have access to the latest news updates to stay up-to-date on the world
Follow along to see what Echo can become in the future!
P.S please laugh at Echos joke
