Space X integration

 

X Freeze

@XFreeze

SpaceX has built an insane vertically integrated ecosystem stretching across the United States • Starbase, Texas → SpaceX headquarters + Starship and Super Heavy development, manufacturing, testing and launch • Hawthorne, California → Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Dragon, Merlin engines, Raptor engines, Starlink user terminals and Starship components • McGregor, Texas → qualification, acceptance and post-flight testing of Merlin and Raptor engines + Starship hardware testing • Redmond, Washington → builds Starlink satellites, including structures, phased-array antennas, propulsion, solar arrays and laser links • Bastrop, Texas → mass-produces Starlink hardware and is expanding into gateway antennas, solar cells and AI compute satellites • Kennedy Space Center + Cape Canaveral, Florida → Falcon launches, booster landings, Dragon and Falcon refurbishment, payload processing, HangarX/X2 and expanding Starship launch infrastructure • Vandenberg, California → Falcon 9 launches to polar and high-inclination orbits + booster recovery • Memphis, Tennessee + Southaven, Mississippi → Colossus and Colossus II AI compute infrastructure powering training and inference for Grok • Palo Alto, California → SpaceXAI and engineering, including the teams designing, training and evolving Grok And that still doesn’t include the recovery fleet, autonomous droneships, 400+ Starlink ground-station sites globally or all of the new infrastructure currently being built SpaceX has built almost the entire stack under one roof.....from designing and manufacturing rockets, engines, spacecraft and satellites to launching them, recovering them, operating a global communications network and now building massive AI compute infrastructure

making movies with stuffed animals

No green screens needed. And no 3D models, either.

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

Same exact acting, but completely different scene... AI transformed a teddy bear hug into a war rescue. Is cinema about to change forever?? Writer: Samuel

Grok

@grok

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2h

TopviewAI (via their Recast / TopviewCanvas feature). Their official post shows the exact same clip transforming the teddy bear hug into the war rescue scene.

Animation example:

https://x.com/pounddz/status/2104298509566693635?s=20

Pounds

@pounddz

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8h

Blender + Seedance 2.5 is CRACKED for AI animations I made this in a couple hours (not including scripting) and blender made it so much easier to direct the shots in the way I wanted +Made it 3x cheaper to make because I had to do less regens I'm leaking my whole workflow to make these animation ads super high quality like this Here's what you're getting: >Character design workflow >Story board workflow >How I create my videos for as cheap as I can >My blender workflow >Prompt structure >How I ideate and write my copy And more if you want it reply under this + RT this and I'll send it over (gotta be following so I can DM)

Creating while driving

 

https://x.com/mikepat711/status/2104256370757521502?s=20

Dude uses Grok to create new software management while the car drives him.

Vibe manufacturers

 

GREG ISENBERG

@gregisenberg

I think we'll see 5x the number of people become hardware and robotics founders over the next 18 months Why? Because you can rent every step, from design to manufacturing: DESIGN - Astra to drive Blender, FreeCAD, and KiCad the way a person would, so you get editable geometry instead of a dead render. Zoo dot dev's text to CAD API if you want it programmatic. - Or have Claude write build123d code, which is Python parametric CAD, and there's a Claude Code plugin that runs it and exports the STL for you. PROTOTYPE - Bambu A1 mini is $299, P1S around $399 on sale. Or skip owning one, JLC3DP prints and mails it for about $20. PCBWay does resin, SLS, and CNC if plastic won't cut it. ELECTRONICS - KiCad for the board, Astra can drive it. JLCPCB fabricates and assembles, often under $100 for a small run. ESP32 for wifi, Raspberry Pi if it needs a brain. ANYTHING THAT MOVES - Unitree sells a Go2 with a full SDK for about $2,500. - Hugging Face put out a $399 open-source biped. - LeRobot gives you the whole train in sim, deploy to real pipeline, and Physical Intelligence open-sourced π0 so you're fine-tuning instead of starting from zero. - Prototype the policy in MuJoCo or Isaac Lab first. MANUFACTURING - Alibaba RFQ for the first 100 units. Check 1688 to see what the factory actually charges domestically, then negotiate. Pietra or Sourcify if you want someone to handle it. FULFILLMENT AND SELLING - ShipBob or Amazon FBA. Shopify for the store, TikTok Shop for distribution, Kickstarter if you want the money before you build it. How to think about starting your own robotics or hardware company: 1. Pick a niche that's already buying weird gear. Cyclists, tabletop gamers, beekeepers, home baristas, dog people with mobility issues. These groups spend money on specific objects and complain in public about what doesn't exist. Or grab ideas off http://Ideabrowser.com 2. Go read the complaints. Reddit, IG etc Search "I wish someone made," "does anyone make," and "modified my." That last one is the best signal, because someone already hacked the product together and you're just manufacturing what they built by hand. Also check Etsy!! If 3 sellers are doing a janky 3D printed version with 400 reviews each, the market is validated. 3. Make one. Describe it to Astra or Claude, get the CAD, print it in ugly gray PLA, use it, fix it. 4. Only go to Alibaba or similar once you've sold a few. Message 10 suppliers through RFQ, take the third cheapest, always pay the $50 for a sample before the real order. 5. Film everything from day 1. The first ugly print, the failed version, the box of 100 arriving. That's your entire marketing budget, and hardware is one of the few categories where people actually want to watch the thing get made. 6. Raise the price. Almost everyone here anchors on what the plastic cost. Your customer is comparing you to nothing, because the alternative is the product doesn't exist. Start at 5x COGS and go up. THIS GOAL OF THIS POST IS JUST HERE TO GET YOUR CREATIVE JUICES FLOWING. Of course, you can build robotics/hardware in a bunch of different ways. One thing I've learned is data couldn't be more important when you're building a hardware/robotics startups. These models learn from first person video of a human doing the task, and that footage doesn't exist for almost any job. So basically you pick one repetitive job people quit over, film someone doing it for 2 weeks, fine-tune π0 on that footage, use organic to sell the first few units and figure out scaling, 5 years ago you needed a factory, a supply chain, and a $1M just to find out if anyone wanted the thing. Now, anyone can become a hardware/robitics founder. And I suspect a lot of people will become one! Vibe manufacturers.

Beatles as engineers

 

Brian Roemmele

@BrianRoemmele

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1h

Listen, do you want to hear a secret? Do you promise not to tell… The Beatles did not merely write catchy songs. They reverse-engineered the entire 1960s radio machine. They were engineers. Top 40 AM programmers lived by a brutal clock. Every extra second of music was a second stolen from advertising. Songs had to land well under three minutes or they never made the playlist. So the Beatles stripped the traditional intro almost to nothing. No long guitar wander. No polite buildup. "She Loves You," "Help!," and "Can't Buy Me Love" slam straight into the chorus. "A Hard Day's Night" opens with one jagged, instantly recognizable chord that grabs the listener by the collar before the first word is even sung. Change the station and you miss the hook. Most kids did not change the station. Lennon and McCartney also ran a linguistic operation McCartney later called the pronoun strategy. They loaded the lyrics with "I," "me," and "you." Titles were not decoration. "From Me to You." "I Want to Hold Your Hand." "Love Me Do." "She Loves You." The songs were written as a private conversation aimed at one teenager sitting alone in a bedroom or a car. Third-person stories feel like someone else's life. Direct address feels like the band is talking to you. Then they attacked the hardware. Cheap portable transistor radios were flooding teenage rooms. Those radios had two-inch speakers that barely produced bass and drowned in AM static. George Martin and the EMI engineers mixed the early singles accordingly. They crushed the mono masters, cut the low end, and pushed midrange and treble until the close harmonies and ringing guitar lines cut through the tin and the hiss. The records were not mixed for hi-fi living rooms. They were mixed to win on the worst speaker in the house. That combination of instant structure, personal pronouns, and speaker-optimized sound is why those early singles did not just get played. They occupied the dial. And yes for decades it was a secret.

https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2099714451570397400?s=20