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Selim

@Selim

Joined June 1st, 2026

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I finished the wiring up the servos to the pca9685 board and connected the servos to my 3d printed hand model and its so much fun to use and mess around with, this project is by far my favourite.

Its officially done and there are two ways to use it:

  1. you can use the website hand tracker just to mess around with it, see the values of the fingers and its reaction speed. Googles media pipe model has issues as you move your hand closer and further from the webcam but there’s nothing I can do to fix as it’s an issue with the model, not my code.
  2. grab a pico, pca9685 board, breadboard and some wires, 3d printer/ access to a 3d printer and build the whole project, I will attach the 3d model and wiring diagram once I finish them so anyone can build it from scratch and have their own robotic hand at home!
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Ive finally gotten to a point where im happy with what ive done and im also proud, even though I lost the hackathon, It was my first so I didn’t have any high expectations going into it. EyeQ is a gesture controlled visual assistant where you can draw, take photos, ask questions and more all without touching your laptop, I originally saw the use case for people with carpal tunnel or arthritis, where using a keyboard comes with daily challenges, although its far from polished im really happy for what this project stands for and hopefully fixes in the future!

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I finally finished all of the functional design for my code and refreshed my html! the big new stuff I changed was the switch over to tiny web and it felt soooo much cleaner and easier to use and just look at. Since the I changed the main structure it took me a while to re organize everything to work with tiny web. I added logging everywhere because I kept running into issues where my could would just stop working, and I refreshed the html because the old colours annoyed me. I think i’m almost done now and i’m so excited to put everything together and test it! (P.S look how much cleaner the terminal output looks im in awe)

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Ive been mainly working on bug fixes and just making everything a lot smoother, ive been testing with other smaller QOL features such as voice commands and being able to interact with the UI using your hands, Can’t wait to see where this goes!

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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

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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!

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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) 

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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

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I’ve finally reached a point with this code as to where I feel comfortable moving onto reprinting the hand and cleaning it up, for a potential final product!
So far the code can:

✅ Host a website
✅ connect with the browser and host port
✅ allow for webcam access and capture
✅ track finger movements and turn them into percentages (with an overlay)
✅ turns the percentages into numbers that it can decipher
✅ turns the numbers into servo values
✅ move the servo’s within a 5ms time frame (requires external hardware)

Next steps:
📥 Motor smoothing to allow for more fluid movements

Excluding the code im going to start working on the pcb and adjusting the CAD for the actual hand model to allow for a better looking build.
Im really excited to see this project finally come to an end!

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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

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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.

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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!

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I finished building the base for the echo slack bot, following this tutorial was more trouble than I excepted, but that’s what makes this project worth more. Going through the steps required some troubleshooting and downtime, but it was all worth it. Echo currently does the bare minimum but I do have a vision for what it could be in the future, im putting echo out there just to get started somewhere and im excited to continue working on Echo!

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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

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