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Very cool. I love the concept.

I make RapidCAM.app so have an appreciation for the amount of work Antimony must have been to get to that point.


I read the page but not being an expert on Flipper I am not confident I can tell the difference from the Flipper Zero.

It is a completely different device.

Flipper Zero is for the physical layer: radio, RFID, IR, etc... It is based on a small microcontroller and is mostly "bare metal", think Arduino, ESP32,...

Flipper One is for the network layer: Ethernet, Wi-Fi, 5G, etc... It is a "real computer" running Linux, like a Raspberry Pi.


Interesting. So the model number corresponds to the OSI network layer?

RapidCAM.app (https://rapidcam.app) has excellent support for AI. The file format specs are published and open source so AI can easily write an ".rcam" file.

RapidCAM.app is a parametric 2.5D CAD/CAM for CNC and laser with support for rotary axis. RapidCAM.app runs in the browser or as desktop apps. There is no login required. The app is free to use. Privacy is respected. rcamhub.com is the sharing site for .rcam files.

Within the App, you can define your project and then use the built in prompt generator. This creates a prompt with all the details AI could need. Once the AI replies with the file, you can paste it back into the app which will then verify the file for you.

Desktop versions of the app have MCP server built in so AI can control the app directly if that is a route you prefer.

I started RapidCAM for my own use as I found that the CNC was sitting idle simply because firing up a full CAD/CAM package took too long. The idea with RapidCAM is that you can quickly sketch out your job from as simple as you need to as advanced as you want going from unconstrained to full parametric/constrained as required.


Prolong is a legal tactic


But judge! We can't be a monopoly ["Quickly... delete all instances of 'Instagram can hurt us' emails..."]. Email exists. Mouths exist, people can communicate without using Facebook...

(Yeah, 'Book. We know email exists. You apparently don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433)


Rapidcam.app is a CAD / CAM for CNC and laser. The file format is designed for LLMs and for version control. The app has a in-built prompt generator and solver so you can use your own LLM.


https://rapidcam.app CNC and laser CAD/CAM for both quick designs and full 2.5D parametric models. Free and runs entirely client side in the browser with no log in required.

The file format is open source, designed for LLMs and for source control. The app has a visual diff system built in.

I designed RapidCAM for me as none of the available options really met my needs. Happy to see that other people are now using it.


I've been making Rapidcam.app. The file schema is open source and json format designed for AI to be able to write directly. The format is also designed for version control. The focus is 2.5D parametric mostly for 3 or 4 axis CNC.


Interesting. I think if AI is useful at all it will be useful in a partly-GUI context, so I am encouraged.

At a glance, not sure how you're approaching constraints, and what luck you've had with getting language models to be able to juggle them?


You could say the same thing about libraries and education.


What is the point of the app if it cannot do anything other than cloud based tasks?


I had a job going to various store locations and running defragment on point of sale computers. It was incredibly zen.


Before enlightenment

Chop wood, defragment

After enlightenment

Chop wood, defragment


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