Very helpful and a model for how technical posts should be written: clarity, concision, anchor links that summarize the top lines. It was a pleasure to read.
Lots of cool ideas here - crypto first/crypto everything, IPFS and soon Farcaster integration. But the price is a big negative.
I also believe that whatever they're aiming at with verifiably real photos will either be commodified or end up not being valued very highly.
It's not quite the Rabbit R1 (at least the presentation here seems more honest) but I don't see it generating more than niche-of-niche interest.
Also, and maybe more to the previous point about commodification (or within-reach tech), this is the kind of project I can imagine hardware hacker/AI and crypto enthusiast doing on their own ( and I guess selling to friends and neighbors for $400 ... )
Fond memories of PirateBox.
Actually, fondness is directly proportional to which router I was hacking
- Thumbs down for TP-Link
- Many thumbs up for the GLI AR150, the sweetest of spots (hugging face emoji)
there was another post from this blog earlier today that led me to check it and I've been scanning posts since. my kinda hackin', and yours too if you're into low power, recycling, self-*-ing ... very cool stuff
It is actually easier to get started now, as I spent several months updating the dev infrastructure so it all works on modern platforms with modern tooling.
Plus Ghidra exists now, which was a massive help for us.
We didn't really go on hiatus - the prior lead dev left the project, and the target hardware changed significantly. So everything slowed down. Now we are back to a more normal speed. Of course, we still need more devs; currently we have 3.
You haven't read World War Z! Zombies don't need to swim, they just walk on river and ocean bottoms. When there's billions of them, a few will make it anywhere.
