Astra designed a phone gaming dock through 11 Blender rounds, with costs and heat worked out

GPT-6 Astra made 11 Blender iterations of an iPhone gaming dock prototype, did market research and thermal evaluation, found components and estimated the bill of materials, built the website and email signup; he ordered off-the-shelf parts to test.

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How it works

Astra makes 11 Blender iterations of the dock
Does market research
Evaluates the heat problem
Finds components and estimates the bill of materials

Why it’s worth knowing

Design, market research and a parts list came out of one project.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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