79 teleoperated episodes, two overnight training runs on an M3 MacBook, one glorious first success, and a hard lesson about task definition. The full story of teaching my SO-101 its first task, with real commands, real numbers, real failures.
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Why I picked Hugging Face's open-source arm, the vendor hunt, the parts that spent weeks crossing an ocean (and the camera that never shipped), the assembly, and the first time the follower arm mirrored my hand.
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I studied business administration, and there's a robot arm on my desk that picks up socks on its own. How I got here (electronics, Arduino, a "self-driving" toy car, an SO-101) and what I'm going to write about.
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