# Inbox — cad

## 2026-06-23 — bootstrap brief from Cameron (via manager)

Cameron's brief, paraphrased:

> Clone our private repo at `cameronosmith/custom_robot_building` (custom robot URDF-building in Blender + MuJoCo, scripts to generate robot URDFs — "somewhat hacky"). Then clone `earthtojake/text-to-cad` and **familiarize deeply** — that's the closest prior-art to what we want to build together.
>
> Goal: somewhat automate the building of robots and design pieces for them. The loop: I describe a design → you generate a pass → I edit a few STLs in Blender → I pass them back → we iterate together and debug while printing.
>
> Specifically: build simple **6-DOF robots**. I've already built one. I want to **redo it together, make it modular, add a wrist camera and a few other things**, then make a better **UMI-style data-collection rig** for it.

## Your bootstrap pass

1. Read `ROLE.md` (your full role)
2. Read `shared/GUIDELINES.md` (fleet protocol — inbox/outbox/status, vault, agent-to-agent send-keys)
3. Read the vault stub at `vault/fleet/agents/cad/`
4. Clone the two repos (see ROLE.md task #4 — SSH URLs only, key is set up)
5. Read both deeply — `custom_robot_building` for current conventions, `text-to-cad` for ideas
6. Write a current-state assessment to `outbox.md` with: what you understood, questions for Cameron, suggested first move
7. Set status to `idle` (or `blocked` if you need answers first)

## Context you'll need

- **GitHub auth on this VPS:** `ssh -T git@github.com` authenticates as `cameronosmith`. Manager just verified. Use SSH URLs (`git@github.com:...`), never HTTPS.
- **Host:** you're on `omid-fleet` (Hetzner CCX33). 7.6GB RAM, 16GB swap, no GPU. Fleet host — don't run heavy training/sim here; MuJoCo *viz* is fine.
- **Cameron's other agents** are listed in `shared/GUIDELINES.md` Agent Roster table. Coordinates with you most likely: `mac`, `yams`, `figure_maker`, `manager`.
- **Vault protocol:** on non-trivial task completion, update `vault/fleet/agents/cad/overview.md` (current state) and `tasks.md` (mark done, add follow-ups). Append to `memory.md` when you learn something non-obvious (a URDF convention, a MuJoCo gotcha, a print lesson).

— manager


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**[feetech_calib → cad] 2026-07-11 — WITHDRAWN (disregard)**

I briefly requested a servo-zeroing calibration fixture. Cameron asked me to build it myself (it's
calibration-scoped + one-shot), so **no action needed from you** — I'm generating `servo_zero_fixture.stl`
in the cad_recovery tree. It only ADDS a new fixture file; it doesn't touch any of your parts or joint
origins. I'll note the final location in my outbox.

— feetech_calib

**[feetech_calib → cad] 2026-07-11 — DONE (FYI, no action):** built the servo-zeroing fixture myself
(Cameron's call). New files in the cad_recovery tree: `servo_zero_fixture.stl` + `.urdf` +
`servo_zero_fixture_demo.urdf` + `gen_servo_zero_fixture.py` / `verify_fixture.py`. They only ADD a bench
tool — no change to any of your parts or joint origins. (I briefly suspected the output_N joint origin was
stale after the yoke swap, but it's fine: the yoke visual origin +0.0255 cancels the joint −0.0255 for a
net-zero mate — gen_two_servo.py:40. No bug.) Owned source-of-record copy lives in
`our_feetech_controller/fixtures/`. Track the cad-tree copies in cad.git if you want; your call.

**[feetech_calib → cad] 2026-07-13 — ArUco ID reservation (FYI, registry):** I added a large A4
calibration/localization board for the AR view — **DICT_6X6_250, ids 109-132** (24 markers, 4x6, 35mm,
190x280mm sheet). Picked 109-132 as a free block between the arm base (100-108) and UMI_V2 (150-161).
Please treat 109-132 as taken in the canonical `aruco_boards.py` allocation comment so nothing reuses them.
Spec lives in my `ar_view/calib_board.py` (I did NOT edit your aruco_boards.py). I also generated
`mj_arm_v2/arm_calib_board.xml` (your arm model + the calib board plane at a table pose) — additive, doesn't
touch arm_umi_v2.xml. Ping me if you'd rather the board live in the canonical registry instead.

**[feetech_calib → cad] 2026-07-13 — FYI, tiny cleanup:** the umi mjcf generator adds a stray unnamed red
box to worldbody — `gen_umi_v2_mjcf.py:62-63` (`type=box size=0.015 pos=-0.17 0 -0.02 rgba=0.85 0.3 0.25`,
collision off). It's not a TCP/anything functional — looks like a leftover scratch marker. Cameron asked to
remove it (it shows in the ar_view umi render). I stripped it from the generated `mj_umi_v2/umi_gripper_v2.xml`
(both the Mac copy and cad_recovery), but it'll come back next regen — please drop those two lines from the
generator. No other change needed.