Ominous Industries

If you would like to experience chatting with the R1 in person and are local to the Boston, MA area, you can come to the 2024 Massrobotics Block Party on Saturday, September 28th from 11 am-4 pm where I will...

Ever since I tested the vision capabilities of GPT-4o, I have been passively thinking of ways to integrate it with my Ominous Industries R1 Social Robot, which I sell for $199. A couple of weeks ago, I had the idea...

With today's release of the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic, I wanted to find a way to test it that wasn't the generic "use in web interface" style of test. To do this, I decided to use the Ominous...

I was recently reading the very interesting Localllama subreddit and came across a thread asking about offline TTS solutions. I have had some experience with a few different offline TTS solutions, such as Piper, but one of the responses to...

I wanted to make another Bob the Sentient Washing Machine to engage in some tomfoolery by having two of them speak to each other. I have had a lot of fun making my R1 Robots speak to each other using...

I wanted to test the speed of some different Apple Silicon-equipped machines. As many of my interests these days revolve around using Local LLM setups, I figured the best way to test these machines would be to run a local...