10y shipping hardware products. Now building physical AI for non-technical and power users @fleurirdotai 🌱 about me - https://xitter.cf/t.co/TMZiiDZUBg
Joined December 2021
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A lot of you showed up in the last 24 hours, so here it's a bit of my stories!
I built a motorbike on my balcony at 17.
Then I built a bedroom on that same balcony and slept there for 18 months, because the apartment had become a workshop.
I never got an engineering degree but managed to get my first prototyping job by asking a company for a brief and coming back a week later with the working prototype. They hired me.
After that for 5 years I ran an R&D and 3d printing manufacturing company (consumer products, industrial groups,...)
Then I fucked it up and lost the company, my house and a ton of money. It felt like a death in the family.
It took me a year before I wanted to build anything again.
Now I’m back, building a robotic flower you can talk to.
All I wanted was something that told me when my AI agent was done. It now has moving petals, a stem that bends, and apps allowing to control all your devices.
yeah I am still very bad at keeping a project small and simple!
GM and thanks everyone! We’re about to hit 600 🙌
Always happy to meet builders, hardware nerds and people making cool stuff.
Hit me up, let’s connect!
Today, I’m sharing something I made almost 3 years ago, this little character was for an app I was working on, way before orb-like characters became a thing in mainstream AI agent products.
Somehow, it’s now becoming Fleur’s digital character, the same one you’ll find as the main head of the physical flower 🌱
Good morning guys!
Watson’s back on the desk. Still not helping tho
Today I’m working on Fleur software, probably the most user friendly cross device agentic experience (yeah I know, pretty ambitious lmao)
Small private alpha soon. A proper applications post coming, but if you already want in, DM me.
I want people who’ll actually use it and break it (Apple only for now)
If that’s not you, still say GM ;)
GM from Watson and me!
You’ve been seeing this cat around for a few days now, so here’s his story.
He’s seven now. I found him abandoned in a vineyard, so tiny he could curl up in the palm of my hand.
The first two years were rough. He was aggressive, attacking me multiples times. I thought that it will took a long time to trust me but doesn’t seems to change
So at one point, I thought I couldn’t keep him, so I found him another family.
I felt awful for days, and after a week, I couldn’t take it anymore and went back for him. That’s when I learned he hadn’t settled in either: he’d spent his days curled up in a corner without moving or eating.
Ever since I brought him back, I’ve been his best friend. He still can’t stand anyone else, but he lets me pick him up and handle him however I like.
He’s probably traveled more than a lot of humans. We’ve covered around 11,000 km in Italy, 12,000 in Spain, and 6,000 in Portugal by camper van. We haven’t tried flying yet, but that will be the next step.
This photo was taken four years ago btw
Alex retweeted
Almost 500 , that’s crazy guys !!!
I'm 27,
Solo founder from France 🇫🇷
Building next gen flower!
Looking to connect with more founders, makers and builders !
(will be in SF in a month, if you will be there, hit me up!)
Almost 500 , that’s crazy guys !!!
I'm 27,
Solo founder from France 🇫🇷
Building next gen flower!
Looking to connect with more founders, makers and builders !
(will be in SF in a month, if you will be there, hit me up!)
4 weeks on X now
440 followers. 137k impressions.
if you are builder / creator / ai enthusiast, let’s connect !
GM from Watson and me!
You’ve been seeing this cat around for a few days now, so here’s his story.
He’s seven now. I found him abandoned in a vineyard, so tiny he could curl up in the palm of my hand.
The first two years were rough. He was aggressive, attacking me multiples times. I thought that it will took a long time to trust me but doesn’t seems to change
So at one point, I thought I couldn’t keep him, so I found him another family.
I felt awful for days, and after a week, I couldn’t take it anymore and went back for him. That’s when I learned he hadn’t settled in either: he’d spent his days curled up in a corner without moving or eating.
Ever since I brought him back, I’ve been his best friend. He still can’t stand anyone else, but he lets me pick him up and handle him however I like.
He’s probably traveled more than a lot of humans. We’ve covered around 11,000 km in Italy, 12,000 in Spain, and 6,000 in Portugal by camper van. We haven’t tried flying yet, but that will be the next step.
This photo was taken four years ago btw
400+ followers now. what is happening guys?
A few weeks ago this account was basically empty.
Now it feels like a bull market.
You guys are legends!
I’ll be in SF in few weeks btw.
If you’re there or work in tech, let’s connect!
A lot of you showed up in the last 24 hours, so here it's a bit of my stories!
I built a motorbike on my balcony at 17.
Then I built a bedroom on that same balcony and slept there for 18 months, because the apartment had become a workshop.
I never got an engineering degree but managed to get my first prototyping job by asking a company for a brief and coming back a week later with the working prototype. They hired me.
After that for 5 years I ran an R&D and 3d printing manufacturing company (consumer products, industrial groups,...)
Then I fucked it up and lost the company, my house and a ton of money. It felt like a death in the family.
It took me a year before I wanted to build anything again.
Now I’m back, building a robotic flower you can talk to.
All I wanted was something that told me when my AI agent was done. It now has moving petals, a stem that bends, and apps allowing to control all your devices.
yeah I am still very bad at keeping a project small and simple!
Builders, show us what you’re working on!
Software, hardware, side projects (doesn’t need to be finished). Join a link or a photo and a quick explanation.
I’d love to find some new tools to use.
I will try few of them and give you an honest feedback!👇
Mathematicians are in the group chat having a full meltdown over OpenAI’s latest results.
Pure entertainment!
Quasi-RH?!?!???! Are you kidding me? If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked.
RH says zeta has no zeros in Re(s)>1/2. The best we had until a second ago was a region that got thinner and thinner the higher up the imaginary axis you go. I thought maybe they’d fatten that up a bit, that’d be a massive breakthrough. But no. They got a zero free strip!!!! Insane
Good morning lads!
I’ve been posting Watson every morning as GM post since few days, but I’m not sure you guys are into it.
Should I keep the daily cat photos, or would you rather see something else?
Alex retweeted
I started building a robot head at 16.
I could do the mechanics and electronics. I couldn’t write the code to make it do what I actually wanted, so I shelved it.
how many half-finished projects could be ship with AI now?
What’s your best abandoned ones?
Alex retweeted
For 5 years I ran an R&D company in 3D printing and product development. Clients went from pure consumer to industrial groups.
Then I fucked it up and lost everything I had.
I just thought I was worthless. I was at the bottom in every way that mattered.
It felt like a death in the family and it took me a full year before I started to feel happy again, and before building anything even crossed my mind.
Today I’m starting all over, alone, with the most unserious looking project of my life: a mechatronic flower you can talk to.
Not what I pictured after those previous projects but i’m enjoying building it so much!
Alex retweeted
The motorbike wasn’t even the weirdest thing I built on that balcony.
I slept on it for a year and a half so I could turn the rest of the apartment into a workshop.
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300 followers now. This is getting ridiculous.
A few weeks ago this account was empty. You guys are amazing!
I’ll be in SF in few weeks btw.
If you’re there and shipping, let’s connect and plan something!
Just crossed 200 followers!
Doubled since this previous post 2 days ago.
Probably a rounding error to some of you, but it’s growing :) still a long way to go tho
I’m building Fleur, a mechatronic flower you talk to so agents can do the work across all your devices (among many other things)!
Drop what you’re building, always looking to connect with amazing people!