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Finally! I've made it through the fire and the flames of a most painful edit & export process and the video is live!

There's a lot that I could say about this project, but I'll save it for the upcoming directors commentary livestream. I'll be scheduling that soon to watch through the video and share all those extra details. 

The most important thing right now is that this project exists for you and I would love to send you a robot written postcard. I can't do that without your address, so if you'd like a personalized card from this robot, please check to make sure your address is up-to-date and shared in Patreon. Here's the instructions for doing that.

- Shane

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I sent robot forgeries to a handwriting expert

Create a FREE Onshape account at: https://Onshape.pro/StuffMadeHere Download the part files for this project: https://tinyurl.com/plotterparts Want to support these projects and get a robot postcard? https://patreon.com/stuffmadehere (I'll be sending them out to new patrons as long as I can keep the robot running) Special thanks to Ron Morris for taking the time to analyze a bunch of writing samples that I sent him. I got in touch with him after getting his textbook to learn more about the subject: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0124096026 This robot uses a tormach ZA6 to tend the writing robot: https://tormach.com/machines/robots.html Heres the 3D printers we designed in onshape: https://bit.ly/3Muh4LV Machine learning Resources: Generating Sequences with Recurrent Neural Networks: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0850 Code for Handwriting Synthesis with RNNs: https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis If you want to learn more about machine learning, this is a good overview that gets into the math behind them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi Other stuff: LSTM cell image By Guillaume Chevalier - File:The_LSTM_Cell.svg, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109362147

Comments

Accountify

Are new members that subscribed after the video elegible for a postcard ?

Jean-René Rodrigue

Any guess of how many cards you'll have to "hand write" and mail?

Jonas Wahlen

Great video, as always, Shane! I especially liked your description of machine learning, this is one of the most accessible descriptions I've seen so far. I appreciate your content and the amount of time you put into it and I look forward do receiving your card

Donovan Meyers

I laughed SO HARD at the iterative failures where the line went all over the place. Brilliantly presented. Looking forward to the card!

Luke Andrew

Great work! It might be worthwhile to note that sharing your address cannot be done from the Patreon app...only from the website: patreon.com.

Gary Cohen

As a software dev I really appreciate seeing you fall into the same traps that I do. Misery loves company I guess.

Flying Toaster

Very cool! I'm curious about how much the angle of the pen mattered when analyzed? I would have assumed that under careful analysis, it could have been determined that the writer never oriented the pen differently and was therefore falsified?

Chris Rogers

Glad your back!!! I check often!!! My wife is equally annoyed when I bring up the stuff made here you tube channel!

Wiktor Piwowarczyk

Great video as always! And I think I am way too excited about getting a post card written by a robot :D Just updated my address. Hope it's not too late. Cheers!

Keno

I was super impressed when I received the card but it’s even better seeing all the work and iterations that went into this.

m j

Loved your videos for a long time. However, your video on computer written handcards made me join.

STEPHEN BIRD

Enjoyed the video, good to see you found a new home :)

Jack

Great video! Happy you’ve found somewhere permanent, can’t wait to see what you come up with next!

Carlos Vidal Wagner

Great video. I decided to join the patreon because I think it's a gift having a dream job like you have, not everyone can work in a dream job so I'm happy to support those who give everything to achieve it :)

Max Lielje

Just updated my address! Great video Shane, looking forward to getting the card :)

Omer Inbar

great video like always! would love it if you can get a little into what you learned in the experience with ML in the director commentary, maybe some useful tools that can be incorporated for makers. congrats on the shop! hopes this one lasts (:

Andrew Jebasingh

I just subscribed! Could I get a card too? :)

Tyler Moore

Just updated my address, I'll take a postcard!

James

same here!

stuffmadehere

Absolutely. Just make sure your address is up to date and linked to the patreon. Most people haven't yet so I'll probably continue to bug people :)

Andrew Jebasingh

Just added my address to Patreon, but now do I need to link it to you somehow?

Matt Cromwell

Just updated my shipping address (wow Patreon makes that weird and harder than it should be!). Glad you're back at the video creations, keep it up!

Marcel Goyeneche

Fantastic project. Also updated the address.

Matt

I just updated mine as well. Did I make the cut off? Great project as always!

R.J. Austerman

Another great video. Just added my address to get a card. Keep up the cool content!

Fineas Anton

Just watched the video, hopefully I made the cutoff :) Excellent video as always.

Mark Belanger

Just updated my address. Hope I'm not too late!

James Steinberg

Whoops I need to check here - just updated but sounds like too late

GPrime

Hopefully I still made it in time 🤞

David Allain

Mannn. I updated my address when you posted this and I got the email. Never got anything. Wonder if it didn’t work quick enough. Always proud to support a brilliant creator regardless.

Jamie Hughes

Really cool, probably my favourite build of yours. Will there ever be a directors commentary of this?? I've actually been doing a very similar project for my final year dissertation/thesis so i'd be fascinated to hear more about it if possible!!