Hi Joel, I saw your post last month about building a slam system with 3mm absolute accuracy. We are looking for systems that can do this. Would you be open to a quick chat about your insights? Please email me at Michael at autolife.io if you'd have some time. Thank you!
Hey thanks, appreciate your comment. We sort of approached it from first principles i.e if we are going to be able to control length cutting at a high resolution then we need to capture hair near the base to know what hair you have captured. Then you need to straighten and apply slight tension to to able to cut it to the right length etc. And it formed from there. After the fact it's interesting how its quite similar to what a hairdresser does. Take a section of hair, cut it and move to the next. Haven't done testing on a wide range of hair types but yes that will likely be limited i.e if its to tight to run a comb through. We are implementing a new clipper mode that will auto adjust hair clippers heights as it moves, so should be able to handle blends on neck, but you are right, behind the ears is our achilles heel haha. I think the fact that it seems impossible is what keeps us interested :)
Hi there. We're a bootstrapped hardware startup in New Zealand. Been working on this for a couple of years. Its been a long hard slog but getting there. In our first prototype (which cut the hair in the video), we tracked the head position using a realsense depth camera, and tracked the handheld device with the Valve lighthouse system. This worked well and could track the handhelds position on the head down to 2mm, even with the head moving. Our next prototype we're gonna make tracking a lot less complex.
