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New comment by pyottdes in "Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals"

pyottdes — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:28:01 +0000

You can still just direct solder to any of the shelf controller pcb to make your own devices. There are also more resources out there than ever before for creating your own inputs.

https://youtu.be/Ug06dhahqg0

New comment by pyottdes in "Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us"

pyottdes — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:41:39 +0000

Ironically, HP Multijet Fusion 3D printers are pretty awesome

New comment by pyottdes in "We rendered and embedded one million CAD files"

pyottdes — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:51:54 +0000

Agreed. At the end of the day, manufactured parts are driven by constraints outside of the CAD environment so analyzing 3D data as the foundation of an AI system strikes me as attacking the problem from the wrong direction. i.e. Simple optimization of a part for injection molding can take it from requiring a bunch of side actions and collapsing cores to a simple 2 sided mold and save hundreds of thousands of dollars in tooling. None of that is obvious from 3D data alone.

That said, I am excited for AI assisted CAD tools. Things like creating and applying global variables to an existing part, complex assembly analysis for part reduction or just making a starting base part can be incredibly tedious and are low hanging fruit for improving CAD workflows with AI imo.

New comment by pyottdes in "The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves"

pyottdes — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:54:34 +0000

It really depends on what your end goal & use case is. Resin printers are pretty phenomenal for any kind of product development and are very much a useful tool in the industrial design space. That said, casual hobbyists should almost always start with an FDM (filament) printer as a first printer. Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience :/

https://youtube.com/@pyottdesign

New comment by pyottdes in "Rubik's Cube gets a $299 update, complete with IPS screens and its own apps"

pyottdes — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:57:39 +0000

They also use totally different mechanical concepts to move the pieces. The Phantom uses an etch-a-sketch style 2 access CNC machine with a magnet head embedded in the board (I think). For the Chessnut, each of the pieces are their own little micro robot that can drive around the board surface. Really neat to see different mechanical solutions to the same automation problem!

New comment by pyottdes in "Rubik's Cube gets a $299 update, complete with IPS screens and its own apps"

pyottdes — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:35:11 +0000

I don’t have any firsthand experience with these products but it sounds like you’re describing the Chessnut Move or Phantom Chessboard

Gyro touch gamepad complete design and build process

pyottdes — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:50:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE0cyiCEJDE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169810

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Statial Open Source Adjustable Ergonomic Mouse [video]

pyottdes — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:04:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTKbrcy7GT0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41638604

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New comment by pyottdes in "We need visual programming. No, not like that"

pyottdes — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:41:55 +0000

Agreed, Rhino/Grasshopper is an amazing tool, especially once you start adding in C# components. I’ve been using it off and on for several years on custom consumer product projects. It’s an under utilized workflow in many fields requiring 3D modeling imo. I just finished a custom VR gasket generator for the Quest 3 that uses face scans from iPhone as the input and the project wouldn’t have been possible without Grasshopper: https://youtu.be/kLMEWerJu0U

New comment by pyottdes in "Florence museum won suit against publisher that used Michelangelo's David image"

pyottdes — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:01:46 +0000

What are your feelings about the Ferrari California?

New comment by pyottdes in "Disney unveils the HoloTile floor"

pyottdes — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:48:54 +0000

Conceptually, the demo is showing a kind of omnidirectional conveyer. It’s a fun implementation of tech that has been used in shipping and fulfillment for a while.

https://youtu.be/HV2zh6ZDgUs https://youtu.be/XAokGOEjAFs

Companies tend to shotgun out a bunch of patent soup unrelated to actual working prototypes during R&D. The media latches on to the most interesting sounding thing they can find relating to a demo so you end up with “ai controlled space lasers” describing something that’s actually much more mundane.

New comment by pyottdes in "Meta Quest 3"

pyottdes — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:02:30 +0000

I think it's interesting to think about it as a hardware evolution question. If you look at a timeline of what it took to get to the modern smartphone, you could (arguably) say:

PalmPilot -> Handspring -> WindowsCE -> Blackberry -> iPhone -> Android -> Modern Smartphone

Each one of those evolutionary steps brought in a larger user base and grew the feature set of the prior generations hardware. The VR/AR/XR market comes with its own set of challenges so imagining where it maps onto that timeline is hard, but I would guess we are still more in the Handspring - WinCE era of these devices.

Wearable display systems have a solid and growing user base but the hardware is still a ways off from something that will have mass adoption. The roadblock is very much in the hardware, not the software IMO.