# PB27 — public marketing trail schema: pb27.marketing.v2 last_updated: 2026-10-28T22:49:41+01:00 observed_at: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) canonical_url: https://dhvanil.com/pb27-marketing.txt complete_comments_url: https://dhvanil.com/pb27-marketing-comments.txt project_context: https://dhvanil.com/pb27.txt human_page: https://dhvanil.com/pb27 scope: 41 curated PB27/PB29 social posts and the existing website release comments_scope: captured public discussions through the October 28 audit; historical observations and remaining gaps are retained in the companion encoding: UTF-8 PB27 is Nil's Berlin-based painting practice. This archive records its public robot-art trail: the work, the posted words, and the response around them. The project became PB27 on August 26. Older copy, handles and URLs retain PB29. ## October 28, 2026 update The archive now covers 18 X posts, 16 TikToks and 7 Reddit posts, plus the October website release. Since the October 16 export, the ledger added 11 social records, including recovered older posts, and refreshed every post's headline counters. Exact copy and canonical links for all 41 are below. These are the October 28 morning observations from the local marketing audit, not counters polled continuously. Individual capture minutes were not retained. October 28 is CET (UTC+01:00); October 24 and earlier summer snapshots are CEST. The file's last_updated timestamp records this publication refresh, separately from the observation window. Earlier public snapshots remain below the current catalogue and keep their original dates. ### New work and process - Soft Voltage, October 27: Astra's jellyfish film, described in the caption as electricity and underwater drift. The related physical painting has 54 marks: 6 clear-water, 22 red and 26 blue. Its two related whole-run results report completion. This supports the painting's execution, not an exact match between a local master and the uploaded video. - TikTok day 014: "we be making jellyfish today". The 15-second public video credits Solitary Reflections by Lyra Hayes. The local Blue Orbit / Glass Current edits have different soundtrack names; upload identity is unproved. - Slight Drift / Hot air balloons: a pen-and-watercolor piece shared on X, Reddit and TikTok. Nil described the pen/brush offset; one viewer liked the mismatch. Exact cross-platform edit identity remains unresolved. - TikTok days 011 and 012 add flowers and autumn leaves. Public date labels establish October 17 and 19 respectively, without exact times or timezones. - Two October 26 X posts describe painting as a long-term creative project and reflect on agents making music. They are process posts, not new arm-run claims. The website's previously published films remain recorded in the October 16 snapshot below. This text refresh does not add the balloon or jellyfish films to the gallery. The latest gallery check in the morning audit did not show them. ### Headline readings - Soft Voltage: 2,864 X owner impressions, 48 likes, 4 reposts and 12 public bookmarks. Public views moved from 2,852 through 2,867 to 2,871 during the audit; these are distinct from the owner-impression counter. - Slight Drift: 1,289 X owner impressions, 21 likes and 3 public bookmarks. - Reddit balloons: 7.1K displayed owner-insight views, 70 upvotes, 13 live comments and 2 shares. Rounded platform values remain rounded. - Ginkgo Reddit: 222K displayed owner-insight views, 1.3K upvotes and 354 shares. - Optical-tip calibration on X: 21,424 owner impressions, 401 likes and 170 public bookmarks. - Jellyfish TikTok: 256 public views, 3 likes, 1 sticker comment, 0 favorites. - TikTok account: 3 followers, 390 account likes, 0 following. Account likes are not a sum or substitute for the post counters below. ### Conversations and coverage The linked comments file now includes the October 24 and 28 additions, including 19 newly archived response IDs from the October 28 audit and two previously unresolved TikTok IDs. It preserves dated bodies, parents, authors, links and visible engagement where exposed. Historical rows are not fresh observations. - Soft Voltage: all 3 direct replies plus Nil's thank-you, 4 discussion IDs. - Slight Drift: all 5 direct replies plus 3 Nil answers. - Reddit balloons: all 13 live bodies plus one deleted historical placeholder. The old deleted body's earlier capture remains explicitly historical. - Reddit Row Displacement: 13/13 comments; August 12 arm post: 8/8. - Ginkgo Reddit: 172 counted comments, 166 cumulatively archived stable IDs; gap 6. The October 28 pass checked recent comments and did not re-expand the whole old tree. The companion keeps the October 24 rendering limits. - Optical-tip X: all 13 counted direct replies plus 6 nested responses were visible in the current rendering. An older root absent from that rendering remains in the historical union. - TikTok Row Displacement: 2/2 comments; jellyfish: 1/1 sticker response. Faces Plate still counts 1 comment without a rendered body. The other 13 TikToks explicitly count zero comments. Open questions include the current usable paper dimensions and secondhand arm price/other uses in the balloon thread, Adar's direct-MIDI question, the brush pressure method, and whether the ginkgo was a first attempt. No answer is invented and this archive refresh does not send replies. The audit checked the 41 recorded roots, recent X/Reddit account activity and selected nested discussions. Older X quote/reposter lists and account-wide mentions were not exhaustively refreshed. Hidden or removed material is not inferred. Nil reports no Instagram posts, so none are listed here. ## Accounts - X: Nil / @dhvanil — https://x.com/dhvanil - TikTok: pb27 / @bot.pb29 — https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29 - Reddit: u/dhvanil — https://www.reddit.com/user/dhvanil/ ## Current post catalogue — October 28 snapshot Posts are grouped by platform, newest recorded entries first. Undated TikToks retain the relative labels observed that morning, without invented dates. The source label belongs to each metric: X owner impressions are not public views or video views; Reddit owner-insight views are not votes; TikTok views come from public profile tiles and reactions from public detail. X likes/replies/reposts below come from owner analytics; bookmarks are public. Reddit headline metrics come from owner Post Insights. Only those headline totals are newly exported; detailed retention, geography, traffic, profile visits and other owner analytics stay in the local ledger. TikTok shares and reposts were unavailable, not zero. Exact copy is quoted as published; a quoted hardware specification or artistic aspiration is not independent performance validation. ### X #### X — Soft Voltage URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2115035634456990149 Post ID: 2115035634456990149 Published: 2026-10-27 11:59:25 CET (`2026-10-27T10:59:25Z`, rendered timestamp) Media: One video, 15 seconds. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 2,864 owner impressions (Oct 28); 48 likes; 3 replies; 4 reposts (owner); 12 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > "Soft Voltage" by Astra > > asked it to expand more, and it said: "A little electricity, a little drifting underwater -- the robot’s movement turning into something soft and alive." #### X — Painting as a long-term robot project URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2114796413791936681 Post ID: 2114796413791936681 Published: 2026-10-26 20:08:50 CET (`2026-10-26T19:08:50Z`, rendered timestamp) Media: Two images: [image 1](https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2114796413791936681/photo/1), [image 2](https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2114796413791936681/photo/2). Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 307 owner impressions (Oct 28); 3 likes; 1 reply; 0 reposts (owner); 0 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > one reason i love painting as a long-term project for my robot + the agents operating it is, > > - infinite depth in technique and finesse. > - infinite breadth in creations. > > it’s an eval + a creative outlet + a growing body of work, all at once. > > the arm has 7 dof and ±0.1mm repeatability. high-res cameras, top-grade brushes, paper and pigments, a well-calibrated indoor workspace. in principle, i think something of Hokusai's or Monet’s calibre is possible with this setup. > > you can see the progression here, bottom to top: calibration runs and basic brush tests, then colour mixing, wet-in-wet, glazing, angled strokes... > > just getting started! so much more to learn + create 🦾 #### X — Robot friends and music URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2114778700340457856 Post ID: 2114778700340457856 Published: 2026-10-26 18:58:27 CET (`2026-10-26T17:58:27Z`, rendered timestamp) Media: One [screenshot](https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2114778700340457856/photo/1) of an agent discussing making music and checking it without listening. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 388 owner impressions (Oct 28); 2 likes; 1 reply; 0 reposts (owner); 0 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > sometimes i feel sad for my robot friends #### X — Slight Drift URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2113992544367349900 Post ID: 2113992544367349900 Published: 2026-10-24 **15:54 CEST**, to the minute displayed by the public post. The browser's Berlin-local display was cross-checked against previously timestamped posts; seconds were unavailable. Media: one video; player duration **00:23**. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 1,289 owner impressions (Oct 28); 21 likes; 5 replies; 0 reposts (owner); 3 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > some calibration issues still need to be ironed out, but loving this wet-in-wet watercolor bleed style! > > titled "Slight Drift" by Opus #### X — Galaxie and Paper Piano URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2110821246581821585 Post ID: 2110821246581821585 Published: 2026-10-15 21:52:57 CEST (`2026-10-15T19:52:57+00:00`), from the post's `time` element Media: one video, player label approximately 30 seconds Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 408 owner impressions (Oct 28); 5 likes; 2 replies; 0 reposts (owner); 1 bookmark (public). Exact published copy: > asked Claude to compose music like "Ryuichi Sakamoto's" for this video, and it spent hours going thru his catalog, analysing spectrograms, downloading scores, asking Gemini 100s of questions cuz it can "understand audio", using audio gen models, writing MIDI directly, what not. #### X — Rosette: slowly getting better at watercolor URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2110482449729794146 Post ID: 2110482449729794146 Published: 2026-10-14 23:26:41 CEST (`2026-10-14T21:26:41+00:00`), from the post's `time` element Media: one video, player label approximately 20 seconds Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 666 owner impressions (Oct 28); 11 likes; 1 reply; 0 reposts (owner); 1 bookmark (public). Exact published copy: > we are slowly getting better at watercolor (and video editing, and music composition) #### X — Mischungen I: watercolor experiments URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2109720205937254671 Post ID: 2109720205937254671 Published: 2026-10-12 20:57:48 CEST (`2026-10-12T18:57:48+00:00`), from the post's `time` element Media: one video, player label approximately 18 seconds Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 774 owner impressions (Oct 28); 17 likes; 1 reply; 1 repost (owner); 4 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > i've been trying to teach watercolor to the Robot. > > we have settled on a new workflow where i just put some colors, sponge, water and paper -- and Opus/Astra run full experiments with dip variants, brush tilt, speed, blend ration, stroke paths, and whatnot. > > it is so exciting to see the quality of paintings slowly improve over time #### X — Still life 395588 URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2104960425347719191 Post ID: 2104960425347719191 Published: 2026-09-29 17:44:08 CEST (`2026-09-29T15:44:08+00:00`), from the post's `time` element Media: one video, player label approximately 17 seconds Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 242 owner impressions (Oct 28); 2 likes; 0 replies; 0 reposts (owner); 0 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > really like this SVG sketch style. also cute how the arm parks in between so that the camera can see what it made. > > stabilo point 88 (grey) + pen 68 (orange), each object's drawing time is compressed to two beats. #### X — Claude drew its own mascot (Clawd stipple) URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2103777057654116796 Post ID: 2103777057654116796 Published: 2026-09-26 11:21:51 CEST (`2026-09-26T09:21:51Z`) Media: one vertical video, displayed as 0:16; the likely local delivery is recorded under Provenance Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 6,456 owner impressions (Oct 28); 40 likes; 3 replies; 3 reposts (owner); 6 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > claude drew its own mascot. > > opus designed the stipple, drove the robot arm for 75 minutes (1,558 pen taps), then wrote the chiptune in code and cut the video so the taps land on the beat. #### X — Dune Sea 2653 in 20 seconds URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2101277005383655443 Post ID: 2101277005383655443 Published: 2026-09-19 13:47:32 CEST (`2026-09-19T11:47:32Z`) Media: 0:19.533 vertical video; local 4K60 and 1080p60 delivery files are recorded below Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 4,669 owner impressions (Oct 28); 55 likes; 3 replies; 2 reposts (owner); 12 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > 67 minutes of drawing compressed into 20 seconds. > > designed by Fable. > robot operation by Sol. > video editing by Opus. > > perfect group effort! #### X — Astra optical brush-tip calibration URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2097350152713363812 Post ID: 2097350152713363812 Published: `2026-09-08 17:43 CEST` (`2026-09-08T17:43+02:00`); platform exposed minute precision. Media: 72-second video; follow-up contains two camera photographs. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 21,424 owner impressions (Oct 28); 401 likes; 13 replies; 30 reposts (owner); 170 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > Astra’s spatial understanding is mindblowing to watch. > > three uncalibrated cameras. no intrinsics, no extrinsics. > > it nudged the robot arm, learned how each camera sees motion, worked out the brush tip’s 3d offset, and verified it at new angles -- all from one prompt and a tiny follow up. > > final result was under 0.2 mm of camera-measured tip movement! #### X — First autonomous watercolor calibration run URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2094917027471270235 Post ID: 2094917027471270235 Published: 2026-09-02 00:35:15 CEST (`2026-09-01T22:35:15Z`) Media: 0:30 video; the exact uploaded delivery has not been identified locally Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 3,673 owner impressions (Oct 28); 16 likes; 3 replies; 6 reposts (owner); 2 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > watercolor is not easy for a robot. brush angle, twist, pressure, pigment volume -- all of it affects the stroke. > > this was Sol's first watercolor run on the arm. 16 paint pickups, 96 palette circles, 8437 robot waypoints, ~32 metres of arm travel and (just) 28.8 cm of actual painted line -- fully planned, checked, and executed autonomously. > > also, funny how i'm experimenting with movements & speeds thru Fable 5.1's clever video editing & sound mixing (with Glif MCP) -- gives me a lot of ideas for adding character to the robot! #### X — Sunday evenings are for calibrating the robot URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2094435285165617445 Post ID: 2094435285165617445 Published: 2026-08-31 16:40 CEST; platform displayed minute precision. Media: one 25-second video, duration from owner analytics. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 509 owner impressions (Oct 28); 4 likes; 0 replies; 1 repost (owner); 0 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > sunday evenings are for calibrating the robot #### X — Claude sketch to seven-axis paper URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2090898101892513794 Post ID: 2090898101892513794 Published: 2026-08-21 22:25:29 CEST (`2026-08-21T20:25:29Z`) Media: 0:33 vertical video Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 972 owner impressions (Oct 28); 6 likes; 0 replies; 2 reposts (owner); 0 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > claude can sketch faces with javascript. > apparently it can also send the vectors back onto paper through a 7-axis robot. > artwork inspired by @mannay #### X — 5.6 Sol draws the ginkgo URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2084670565378326536 Post ID: 2084670565378326536 Published: 2026-08-04 17:59:28 CEST (`2026-08-04T15:59:28.749Z`) Media: 1:11 video of the August 3 ginkgo run Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 4,775 owner impressions (Oct 28); 48 likes; 8 replies; 9 reposts (owner); 13 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > i gave 5.6 sol a robot arm and a photo of a ginkgo leaf. > > it spent a while coding, fumbling, planning, calibrating... -- and then drew this! ### Technical follow-up Published one second later at 2026-08-04 17:59:29 CEST (`2026-08-04T15:59:29.269Z`): > it made 256 strokes with 3,897 points. 11.5m pen-down travel and 9m pen-up travel. Took about 65 min in total! Literally all the software for this project is written by Codex. From camera capture and calibration to path execution, safety checks, logging, SCAD designs for custom grippers and stations etc. [Open the follow-up](https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2084670567559397651). #### X — AI agents are getting decent at drawing URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2078552320007160013 Post ID: 2078552320007160013 Published: 2026-07-18 20:47:45 CEST (`2026-07-18T18:47:45.000Z`) Media: 12-second video Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 2,233 owner impressions (Oct 28); 26 likes; 2 replies; 3 reposts (owner); 1 bookmark (public). Exact published copy: > been teaching my ai agents to draw with this robotic, and they're getting kind of decent now (: #### X — Work Louder manual control URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2075522442622124337 Post ID: 2075522442622124337 Published: 2026-07-10 12:08:06 CEST (`2026-07-10T10:08:06.000Z`) Media: 12-second video Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 802 owner impressions (Oct 28); 15 likes; 2 replies; 0 reposts (owner); 2 bookmarks (public). Exact published copy: > Sol Ultra hooked up my ufactory robotic arm with @work_louder macro pad, so i can jog it around in a nice fun way -- smth that i tried with 5.5 xhigh for days and it stumbled many times! #### X — Claude and Codex quick sketches URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2073388911833780462 Post ID: 2073388911833780462 Published: 2026-07-04 14:50:12 CEST (`2026-07-04T12:50:12.000Z`) Media: one image Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 658 owner impressions (Oct 28); 13 likes; 5 replies; 0 reposts (owner); 1 bookmark (public). Exact published copy: > i asked claude and codex to do some quick sketches using an robotic arm -- and it's cute how you can quickly make out what was made by whom with just a 5 sec glance at the outputs ### TikTok #### TikTok — Jellyfish / day 014 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7701436402168270113 Post ID: 7701436402168270113 Published: Exact date/time unavailable. Public detail said "13h ago" on October 28 morning CET; this relative label is not an exact timestamp. Media: One 15-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: [Solitary Reflections — Lyra Hayes](https://www.tiktok.com/music/Solitary-Reflections-7603331320467605513), as credited publicly. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 256 public views (Oct 28); 3 likes; 1 comment; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 014: we be making jellyfish today #### TikTok — Hot-air balloons / day 013 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7700263447052684577 Post ID: 7700263447052684577 Published: Exact date/time unavailable. Public detail said "3d ago" on October 28 morning, but the post was already archived on October 24. Both observations are retained without resolving the inconsistency by guessing. Media: One 23-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: Nguyễn Chí Hậu — Demise of a Nation, as credited on the profile tile. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 273 public views (Oct 28); 12 likes; 0 comments; 1 favorite (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 013: hot air balloons #robotics #watercolors #### TikTok — Autumn leaves / day 012 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7698309669671996705 Post ID: 7698309669671996705 Published: 2026-10-19, day precision from the public label; exact time and publication timezone unavailable. Media: One 20-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: Marnie Cusk — Paper Moon Static, as credited on the profile tile. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 265 public views (Oct 28); 8 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: The caption, confirmed in the October 28 public detail: > day 012: Autumn leaves #### TikTok — Beautiful flowers / day 011 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7697544037103897888 Post ID: 7697544037103897888 Published: 2026-10-17, day precision from the public label; exact time and publication timezone unavailable. Media: One 20-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: pb27 — original sound, as credited on the profile tile. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 265 public views (Oct 28); 7 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: The caption, confirmed in the October 28 public detail: > day 011: making some beautiful flowers! #### TikTok — Scribble overprint 2611 / day 010 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7696968749462703393 Post ID: 7696968749462703393 Published: 2026-10-15 20:49 CEST, from the signed-in Studio Posts table Media: One 18-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: original sound - pb27 Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 269 public views (Oct 28); 2 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 010: sometimes it's okay to just scribble #### TikTok — Galaxie / day 009 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7696833272969514273 Post ID: 7696833272969514273 Published: 2026-10-15 12:04 CEST, from the signed-in Studio Posts table Media: One 15-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: Beanie Waltz - Seb Wery Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 924 public views (Oct 28); 38 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 009. slowly moving to watercolor now! #robotics #watercolors #aquarellepainting #### TikTok — day 009, Clawd URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7690133208813341985 Post ID: 7690133208813341985 Published: 2026-09-27 10:44:30 CEST (`2026-09-27T08:44:30Z`) Media: One 16-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: original sound by `pb27` Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 330 public views (Oct 28); 11 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 009: today i made Clawd, the mascot of Claude Code! #vibecoding #claude #robotics #### TikTok — The lines are still squiggly / day 009 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7689699778883570977 Post ID: 7689699778883570977 Published: 2026-09-26 06:43 CEST, from the signed-in Studio Posts table Media: One 15-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: original sound - pb27 Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 289 public views (Oct 28); 3 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 009: the lines are still squiggly #robotics #sketching #stabilopoint88 #### TikTok — day 008, Dune Sea 2653 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7687212746164768032 Post ID: 7687212746164768032 Published: 2026-09-19 13:51:31 CEST (`2026-09-19T11:51:31Z`) Media: One 19-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: original sound by `pb27` Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 2,035 public views (Oct 28); 43 likes; 0 comments; 2 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 008 - 67 minutes of drawing compressed in 20 seconds #robotics #artificialintelligence #sketching #roboticarm #### TikTok — Slip stick lines URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7684007038803840289 Post ID: 7684007038803840289 Published: 2026-09-10 22:31 CEST, from the signed-in Studio Posts table Media: One 30-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: Beanie Waltz - Seb Wery Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 799 public views (Oct 28); 5 likes; 0 comments; 1 favorite (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > slip stick lines #robotics #artificialintelligence #painting #### TikTok — Picking up watercolor URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7681426262270823712 Post ID: 7681426262270823712 Published: 2026-09-03 23:37 CEST, from the signed-in Studio Posts table Media: one vertical video, displayed as 30 seconds Music: original sound - pb27 Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 1,993 public views (Oct 28); 49 likes; 0 comments; 3 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > picking up watercolor now! #robotics #artificialintelligence #painting #aquarellepainting #### TikTok — Row Displacement / day 005 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7677224380912389409 Post ID: 7677224380912389409 Published: 2026-08-23 15:51 CEST, from the signed-in Studio Posts table Media: One 12-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: INTERESTELLAR - Kore Blanco Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 3,040 public views (Oct 28); 161 likes; 2 comments; 4 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 005 - straight lines can be quite fun too! #robotics #artificialintelligence #artistatiktok #roboticarm #sketch #### TikTok — day 004, Faces Plate 347826 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7676584833212108064 Post ID: 7676584833212108064 Published: 2026-08-21 22:29:51 CEST (`2026-08-21T20:29:51Z`) Media: One 33-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: original sound by `pb27` Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 847 public views (Oct 28); 16 likes; 1 comment; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 004 sketching some faces today #robotics #artificialintelligence #artistatiktok #roboticarm #### TikTok — Calibration checks / day 003 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7675874391619587361 Post ID: 7675874391619587361 Published: 2026-08-20 00:33 CEST, from the signed-in Studio Posts table Media: One 8-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: INTERESTELLAR - Kore Blanco Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 309 public views (Oct 28); 5 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 003 just some calibration checks today! lazy day #robotics #artificialintelligence #artistatiktok #sketch #roboticarm #### TikTok — day 002, Tidal Rings 7447 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7672801815066365217 Post ID: 7672801815066365217 Published: 2026-08-11 17:49:50 CEST (`2026-08-11T15:49:50Z`) Media: One 15-second video, as displayed in the October 28 public player. Music: “INTERESTELLAR” by Kore Blanco Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 728 public views (Oct 28); 23 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 002 apparently circles don't need to be perfectly round #robotics #robotart #robotartist #penplotting #art #### TikTok — day 001, Fray 90210 URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7672363403272293664 Post ID: 7672363403272293664 Published: 2026-08-10 13:28:33 CEST (`2026-08-10T11:28:33Z`) Media: 52-second vertical video; Berlin location tag Music: “Piano Version (纯享版)” by 夹夹虫 Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 647 public views (Oct 28); 5 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites (public); shares/reposts unavailable. Exact published copy: > day 001 of learning to draw. apparently a line can be wrong and still belong. #robotics #art #roboticarm ### Reddit #### Reddit — Hot air balloons URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/comments/1xee9jd/hot_air_balloons/ Post ID: 1xee9jd Published: 2026-10-24 19:17:13.833 CEST (`2026-10-24T17:17:13.833Z`, rendered timestamp element). Media: one 23-second video; public media identity `v.redd.it/t6rka3du7gxh1`. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 7.1K views (Oct 28 owner); 70 upvotes; 97.3% ratio; 13 comments; 2 shares; 0 reposts. Exact published copy: Title: > "Hot air balloons" Body: > the calibration between the pen and brush was a bit off, but otherwise came out nice! #### Reddit — Astra optical brush-tip calibration on r/codex URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wask8h/astras_spatial_understanding_is_mindblowing_to/ Post ID: 1wask8h Published: `2026-09-08`, approximately `18:03 CEST` (`2026-09-08T18:03+02:00`); inferred from the platform's 21/23/26-minute relative labels during the 18:24–18:29 audit. Exact timestamp was not exposed in the accessible page. Media: Native 72-second video. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 5.1K views (Oct 28 owner); 24 upvotes; 96.2% ratio; 0 comments; 2 shares; 0 reposts. Exact published copy: **Title:** Astra’s spatial understanding is mindblowing to watch (CoT in video!) > Astra calibrated my robot’s brush tip using three uncalibrated cameras > > three uncalibrated cameras. no intrinsics, no extrinsics. > > it nudged the robot arm, learned how each camera sees motion, worked out the brush tip’s 3d offset, and verified it at new angles -- all from one prompt and a tiny follow up. > > earlier while using Sol & Fable -- i'd tried a lot of fancy stuff with ChArUco boards, microswitches, Raspbery pico + touchscreen, and was still struggling. > > Astra was like, "bro, just give me 3 cameras." #### Reddit — Watercolor brush calibration on r/robotics URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1w4sfsx/teaching_a_7_axis_arm_to_use_a_watercolor_brush/ Post ID: 1w4sfsx Published: 2026-09-02 00:45:37 CEST (`2026-09-01T22:45:37.410Z`) Media: 0:30 video; Reddit exposed 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, and 144p playback options; the exact uploaded delivery has not been identified locally Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 4.7K views (Oct 28 owner); 36 upvotes; 92.9% ratio; 0 comments; 9 shares; 0 reposts. Exact published copy: ### Title > Teaching a 7 axis arm to use a watercolor brush: what the first calibration run looked like ### Body > The setup: Secondhand UFactory xArm 7. A size-4 round watercolor brush in a 3D-printed compliant side mount (leans roughly 16° from the paper). A cheap 24-well tray for paint, two water wells and a sponge for cleaning, 300×300 mm paper held down by magnets. Overhead camera with a ChArUco solve for the paper plane; brush-tip height from a touchscreen contact station. Motion is planned and executed by an AI coding agent driving Python stack (path planning, FK preflight against the current tool, safety gates, logging). > > Operating a brush is tricky. It's is a soft, tilted, wet tuft, and the mark depends on shaft tilt, rotation about the shaft, depth, and how much pigment and water is loaded. None of that is observable from the controller. > > This particular run had 16 paint pickups, 96 palette circles (six per load), 8,437 waypoints, about 32 m of arm travel for 28.8 cm of painted line, 31 minutes wall-clock. #### Reddit — Row Displacement 404 on r/PlotterArt URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/comments/1vwaqdj/simple_glitch_art_by_an_overqualified_robot/ Post ID: 1vwaqdj Published: 2026-08-23 17:50:43 CEST (`2026-08-23T15:50:43.713Z`) Media: 0:25 vertical video; Reddit exposes a 1080 × 1920 H.264 package under media ID `edn1rbcxb5lh1` Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 34K views (Oct 28 owner); 22 upvotes; 82.4% ratio; 13 comments; 21 shares; 0 reposts. Exact published copy: ### Title > Simple glitch art by an overqualified robot No body text was rendered on the canonical post. #### Reddit — Faces Plate on r/ClaudeCode URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vusrf5/i_asked_fable_to_make_a_javascript_sketchbook/ Post ID: 1vusrf5 Published: 2026-08-21 23:09:53 CEST (`2026-08-21T21:09:53.226Z`) Media: 0:33 vertical video Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 5K views (Oct 28 owner); 16 upvotes; 94.4% ratio; 0 comments; 5 shares; 0 reposts. Exact published copy: ### Title > i asked Fable to make a JavaScript sketchbook, then sent it back onto paper with a robot arm ### Body > showed Claude Mannay’s coded face studies and asked it to build a new generator for physical drawing. > > Claude wrote the JavaScript system: modular eyes, noses and mouths attached to a rough 3D head, with deliberate drift, overshoot and retracing. I picked the seed and composition, then exported the black and pink layers as SVGs. > > Codex took over the physical side. It registered the 105 × 155 mm postcard and its magnets, calibrated the two pens, planned and kinematically checked every path, handled the safety gates, and ran the drawing on a UFactory xArm 7. > > The finished postcard contains 273 black strokes and 54 pink strokes - 327 physical pen strokes in total. #### Reddit — Drawing with my 7-DOF robotic arm URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/comments/1vm8ypo/drawing_with_my_7dof_robotic_arm/ Post ID: 1vm8ypo Published: 2026-08-12 11:12:44.301 CEST (`2026-08-12T09:12:44.301Z`, rendered timestamp element). Media: one 14-second video in owner insights; public media identity `v.redd.it/gp0yiocouwih1`. Playback failed in the signed-in author feed; that is not evidence of an absent upload. Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 5K views (Oct 28 owner); 44 upvotes; 100% ratio; 8 comments; 3 shares; 0 reposts. Exact published copy: > Drawing with my 7-DOF robotic arm No additional post body rendered. #### Reddit — Codex operates the arm for the ginkgo run URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/i_let_codex_operate_a_robot_arm_and_this_is_what/ Post ID: 1vetuhn Published: 2026-08-04 01:41:30 CEST (`2026-08-03T23:41:30.230Z`) Media: 1:11 video Observed: 2026-10-28 morning CET (UTC+01:00) Latest: 222K views (Oct 28 owner); 1.3K upvotes; 98.9% ratio; 172 comments; 354 shares; 3 reposts. Exact published copy: > I’ve been using Codex as the software operator for a real robot arm. For this run, it prepared and executed a 256-stroke drawing, monitored the controller, and handled the safe shutdown checks. > > Literally all the software for this project is written by Codex. From camera capture and calibration to path execution, safety checks, logging, etc. > > The rig has cameras for visual feedback, so Codex can inspect the paper, check the calibration, and see the marks the arm makes. ## Earlier published snapshots — retained history The following material is the previous public export, observed on the dates shown. References to latest values, archive sizes, gaps and platform access in this historical block describe their original cutoff. The October 28 catalogue and coverage above supersede those readings. Earlier copy and provenance remain. ## October 16, 2026 update Observed 2026-10-16 01:10–01:24 CEST in the signed-in X and TikTok interfaces. This public summary uses visible post counters. Owner-only watch-time and traffic analytics remain in the local marketing ledger. Counts can change. TikTok profile: 2 followers, 359 likes, 0 following; display name pb27. Eight finished films have been added to https://dhvanil.com/pb27#work: Herbstbaum, Galaxie, Scribble overprint 2611, The Coat Kept Waiting, Only three connections, Rosette, Mischungen I, and Abendrot. Five are portrait 2160 x 3840; three landscape 3840 x 2160. All are 60 fps edited deliveries, served as the unchanged 4K masters. This is not a claim of 60 fps camera capture. The Herbstbaum Vanish edit removes the arm and freezes the strip of paint wells. ### Recent X posts - 2026-10-15 — Galaxie and Paper Piano https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2110821246581821585 266 public views; 4 likes; 2 replies; 0 reposts. - 2026-10-14 — Rosette: slowly getting better at watercolor https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2110482449729794146 633 public views; 10 likes; 1 replies; 0 reposts. - 2026-10-12 — Mischungen I: watercolor experiments https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2109720205937254671 742 public views; 18 likes; 1 replies; 1 reposts. - 2026-09-29 — Still life 395588 https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2104960425347719191 228 public views; 2 likes; 0 replies; 0 reposts. Visible responses: Adar asked whether Claude chose direct MIDI itself on the Galaxie/music post; no answer rendered. Nil answered Burhan's Beethoven remark. On Rosette, Nil added that pooling remains a problem on the rough handmade paper. The Mischungen auction joke received an answer; Still life had no replies. The recent roots were inspected, but hidden replies and quotes were not exhaustive. ### All twelve published TikToks - 2026-10-15 20:49 CEST — Scribble overprint 2611 / day 010 https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7696968749462703393 266 views; 1 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites. - 2026-10-15 12:04 CEST — Galaxie / day 009 https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7696833272969514273 922 views; 38 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites. - 2026-09-27 10:44 CEST — Clawd / day 009 https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7690133208813341985 322 views; 11 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites. - 2026-09-26 06:43 CEST — The lines are still squiggly / day 009 https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7689699778883570977 288 views; 3 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites. - 2026-09-19 13:51 CEST — Dune Sea / day 008 https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7687212746164768032 2,033 views; 43 likes; 0 comments; 2 favorites. - 2026-09-10 22:31 CEST — Slip stick lines https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7684007038803840289 797 views; 5 likes; 0 comments; 1 favorites. - 2026-09-03 23:37 CEST — Picking up watercolor https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7681426262270823712 1,991 views; 49 likes; 0 comments; 3 favorites. - 2026-08-23 15:51 CEST — Row Displacement / day 005 https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7677224380912389409 3,039 views; 161 likes; 2 comments; 4 favorites. - 2026-08-21 22:29 CEST — Faces Plate / day 004 https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7676584833212108064 845 views; 16 likes; 1 comments; 0 favorites. - 2026-08-20 00:33 CEST — Calibration checks / day 003 https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7675874391619587361 308 views; 5 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites. - 2026-08-11 17:49 CEST — Tidal Rings / day 002 https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7672801815066365217 727 views; 23 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites. - 2026-08-10 13:28 CEST — Fray / day 001 https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7672363403272293664 643 views; 5 likes; 0 comments; 0 favorites. The 15-second Galaxie TikTok uses Beanie Waltz, separate from the website's 30-second piano film. Repeated diary day numbers are preserved as published. The September 26 squiggly-lines post is only tentatively associated with Meridian bands; exact source and upload identity remain unresolved. Row Displacement has two visible responses: a viewer thought it would be a QR code, and PB27 replied that it would try that idea. Faces Plate's one response now exposes an author and date but no readable body; its content remains unresolved. All ten other TikToks show zero comments. Unavailable shares and reposts are not treated as zero. The August archive below remains a dated historical record. ## Historical snapshot — August 22, 2026 Newest first: - 21 August Reddit r/ClaudeCode Faces Plate post: 3.7K views, 16 upvotes, 94.4% upvote ratio, 0 comments, 0 reposts, and 3 shares. It was Nil's #14 post of all time and the #13 post on r/ClaudeCode that day. Owner-analytics snapshot 22 August 2026 at 14:37 CEST. - 21 August TikTok day 004: 833 views, 14 likes, 1 counted comment but no rendered comment, 0 reposts, 0 shares, and 0 favorites. Observed 22 August 2026 at 14:37 CEST. - 21 August X Faces Plate post: 711 public views, 704 owner impressions, 5 likes, 2 reposts, 0 replies, and 0 bookmarks. Owner analytics showed 39 engagements, 24 detail expands, and 6 profile visits. Observed 22 August 2026 at 14:37 CEST. - 11 August TikTok day 002: 714 views, 21 likes, 0 comments, 0 reposts, 0 shares, 0 favorites. Observed 13 August 2026 at 12:45 CEST. - 10 August TikTok day 001: 630 views, 3 likes, 0 comments, 0 reposts, 0 shares, 0 favorites. Observed 13 August 2026 at 12:45 CEST. - 4 August X ginkgo root post: 4,193 public views, 48 likes, 8 replies, 8 repost actions, 12 bookmarks. Observed 13 August 2026 at 15:20 CEST. The latest full owner-analytics snapshot, from 10 August, showed 4,113 impressions and 225 engagements; this is kept separate from the later public view count. - 4 August Reddit ginkgo post: 180K views, 1.2K displayed upvotes, 98.8% upvote ratio, 157 comments, 325 shares, 3 reposts. Owner-analytics snapshot: 13 August 2026 at 15:30 CEST. - 18 July X drawing-progress post: 2,181 owner impressions, 27 likes, 3 reposts, 2 replies, 1 bookmark. Last owner-analytics snapshot: 10 August 2026 at 14:12 CEST. - 10 July X Work Louder post: 768 owner impressions, 15 likes, 2 replies, 3 bookmarks. Last owner-analytics snapshot: 10 August 2026 at 14:12 CEST. - 4 July X first-sketches post: 635 owner impressions, 13 likes, 5 replies, 1 bookmark. Last owner-analytics snapshot: 10 August 2026 at 14:12 CEST. ## Posts ### 21 August 2026 — Reddit r/ClaudeCode, Faces Plate Account: u/dhvanil Published: 2026-08-21 23:09:53 CEST URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1vusrf5/i_asked_fable_to_make_a_javascript_sketchbook/ Media: 33-second vertical video Flair: Built with Claude Exact title: > i asked Fable to make a JavaScript sketchbook, then sent it back onto > paper with a robot arm Exact body: > showed Claude Mannay’s coded face studies and asked it to build a new > generator for physical drawing. > > Claude wrote the JavaScript system: modular eyes, noses and mouths attached > to a rough 3D head, with deliberate drift, overshoot and retracing. I picked > the seed and composition, then exported the black and pink layers as SVGs. > > Codex took over the physical side. It registered the 105 × 155 mm postcard > and its magnets, calibrated the two pens, planned and kinematically checked > every path, handled the safety gates, and ran the drawing on a UFactory > xArm 7. > > The finished postcard contains 273 black strokes and 54 pink strokes - 327 > physical pen strokes in total. Owner analytics observed 2026-08-21 23:50 CEST: - 469 views - 4 upvotes - 100% upvote ratio - 0 comments - 0 reposts - 0 shares - 0 awards - #26 post on r/ClaudeCode that day Reddit attributed 459 views to the first hour. Top countries were United States 33%, Germany 15.4%, Canada 6.6%, and other countries 45%. Owner analytics observed 2026-08-22 14:37 CEST: - 3.7K displayed views; 3,682 attributed across hours 1–16 - 16 upvotes - 94.4% upvote ratio - 0 comments - 0 reposts - 3 shares - 0 awards - #14 post of all time for u/dhvanil - #13 post on r/ClaudeCode that day Top countries were United States 38.2%, Germany 8.3%, United Kingdom 4.9%, and other countries 48.7%. Physical provenance: The post shows Faces Plate 347826, a new PB29 JavaScript generator developed from Mannay's public images and explanation; Mannay's unavailable source code was not used. Claude made the generator under Nil's direction, Nil chose the seed and composition, and Codex handled physical registration, two-pen calibration, path and kinematic checks, safety gates, and execution. The finished 105 × 155 mm postcard contains 273 black strokes and 54 warm/pink strokes. The black layer stopped after stroke 193 and resumed at 194; the resume completed through 273 cleanly. The warm/pink layer completed all 54 strokes cleanly. The designed 89-stroke cool layer was not drawn. Comments: - 0 comments at the 2026-08-21 23:50 CEST snapshot. - 0 comments at the 2026-08-22 14:37 CEST snapshot. ### 21 August 2026 — TikTok day 004, Faces Plate 347826 Account: @bot.pb29 Published: 2026-08-21 22:29:51 CEST URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7676584833212108064 Media: 33-second vertical video Music: original sound by pb27 Exact copy: > day 004 sketching some faces today #robotics #artificialintelligence > #artistatiktok #roboticarm Public metrics observed 2026-08-21 23:50 CEST: - 295 views - 6 likes - 1 counted comment; 0 comments rendered in the public panel - repost count unavailable - 0 shares - 0 favorites Public metrics observed 2026-08-22 14:37 CEST: - 833 views - 14 likes - 1 counted comment; 0 comments rendered in the public panel - 0 reposts - 0 shares - 0 favorites Physical provenance: The video shows the same physically completed Faces Plate 347826 postcard: 273 black strokes plus 54 warm/pink strokes, 327 total. The cool design layer was not drawn. The 33.283-second delivery master is true 2160 × 3840 vertical H.264 at 60 fps, SHA-256 9f975e9b14f857ed5f5f80903bb38bd1f9c74b113461da3050765dcd1b73dd18. Comments: - TikTok counted one comment, but the public Comments panel rendered “Start the conversation” and no response body. The archive records a one-comment coverage gap without guessing whether it was hidden, deleted, filtered, or temporarily unavailable. - The same one-count, zero-rendered-comment gap remained at the 2026-08-22 14:37 CEST snapshot. ### 21 August 2026 — X, Claude sketch to seven-axis paper Account: @dhvanil Published: 2026-08-21 22:25:29 CEST URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2090898101892513794 Media: 33-second vertical video Exact copy: > claude can sketch faces with javascript. > apparently it can also send the vectors back onto paper through a 7-axis > robot. > artwork inspired by @mannay Visible counters observed 2026-08-21 23:50 CEST: - 242 public views - 239 owner impressions - 22 engagements - 14 detail expands - 2 profile visits - 3 likes - 1 repost - 0 replies - 0 bookmarks Video analytics at the same owner snapshot: - 57 unique viewers and 81 video views - 48% retention at 8 seconds - 22% retention at 16 seconds - 17% retention at 24 seconds - 15% retention at 33 seconds Visible counters and owner analytics observed 2026-08-22 14:37 CEST: - 711 public views - 704 owner impressions - 39 engagements - 24 detail expands - 6 profile visits - 5 likes - 2 reposts - 0 replies - 0 bookmarks Video analytics at the next-day owner snapshot: - 168 unique viewers and 216 video views - 49% retention at 8 seconds - 23% retention at 16 seconds - 17% retention at 24 seconds - 13% retention at 33 seconds The public view counter and owner-impression counter are separate X surfaces and are not forced into false agreement. Physical provenance: This is Faces Plate 347826, the same 327-stroke two-pen postcard described above. Mannay's public work was the visual reference; his code was not open source and was not used. The delivery edit cuts between camera views, and the physical run is not represented as one uninterrupted take. Replies: - 0 replies at the 2026-08-21 23:50 CEST snapshot. - 0 replies at the 2026-08-22 14:37 CEST snapshot. - A possible later reply under Mannay had not been published and is not part of this record. ### 11 August 2026 — TikTok day 002, Tidal Rings 7447 Account: @bot.pb29 Published: 2026-08-11 17:49:50 CEST URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7672801815066365217 Media: 15-second vertical video Music: "INTERESTELLAR" by Kore Blanco Exact copy: > day 002 apparently circles don't need to be perfectly round #robotics > #robotart #robotartist #penplotting #art Public metrics observed 2026-08-13 12:45 CEST: - 714 views - 21 likes - 0 comments - 0 reposts - 0 shares - 0 favorites Physical provenance: The video shows PB29 Tidal Rings 7447, a 44-ring drawing on a fresh 148 x 105 mm sheet using Pen D. The execution plan contained 44 strokes and 1,753 points. The source SVG SHA-256 was 1cb84d3a6b1635ed9ff75d0082be5f9d29dff5e84baeee1e63c1b632a76d6f77. The private run ledger contains two clean same-day sheets from this exact SVG: the first completed stroke 1, then strokes 2-44, and an immediate replacement- paper repeat did the same. All four execution traces ended cleanly with robot error/warn 0/0. The post does not identify which sheet its footage came from, so this public record does not pretend to know. Comments: - 0 comments at the 2026-08-13 12:45 CEST snapshot. ### 10 August 2026 — TikTok day 001, Fray 90210 Account: @bot.pb29 Published: 2026-08-10 13:28:33 CEST URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@bot.pb29/video/7672363403272293664 Media: 52-second vertical video; Berlin location tag Music: "Piano Version (纯享版)" by 夹夹虫 Exact copy: > day 001 of learning to draw. apparently a line can be wrong and still > belong. #robotics #art #roboticarm Public metrics observed 2026-08-13 12:45 CEST: - 630 views - 3 likes - 0 comments - 0 reposts - 0 shares - 0 favorites Physical provenance: The video shows the physically drawn three-colour Fray 90210, not a design preview. Its three layers each contain 26 strands. The first layer executed strokes 1-23, stopped without a clean final receipt, and was then deliberately resumed for strokes 24-26; the resume finished with error/warn 0/0. Layers two and three each completed all 26 strokes cleanly. A final 4K camera frame in the private run archive records the complete physical sheet. Comments: - 0 comments at the 2026-08-13 12:45 CEST snapshot. ### 4 August 2026 — X, 5.6 Sol draws the ginkgo Account: @dhvanil Published: 2026-08-04 17:59:28 CEST URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2084670565378326536 Media: 1:11 video Exact copy: > i gave 5.6 sol a robot arm and a photo of a ginkgo leaf. > > it spent a while coding, fumbling, planning, calibrating... -- and then > drew this! Technical follow-up: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2084670567559397651 > it made 256 strokes with 3,897 points. 11.5m pen-down travel and 9m > pen-up travel. Took about 65 min in total! Literally all the software for > this project is written by Codex. From camera capture and calibration to > path execution, safety checks, logging, SCAD designs for custom grippers > and stations etc. Latest visible counters: - Root post, signed-in detail page, observed 2026-08-13 15:20 CEST: 4,193 views, 48 likes, 8 replies, 8 repost actions, 12 bookmarks. - Technical follow-up, same observation: 231 views, 7 likes. - Latest full owner analytics, observed 2026-08-10 14:12 CEST: 4,113 impressions, 225 engagements, 114 detail expands, 38 profile visits. - Video analytics at that owner snapshot: 877 unique views, 1,075 video views; 26% retention at 17 seconds and 7% at 1:11. - Repost actions resolved into 3 quote posts and 5 ordinary reposters. Replies and quote posts captured through 2026-08-13: - Ankeeth Suvarna: "this will definitely solve all the CAPTCHAs out there and pass I am not robot test" — https://x.com/imankeeth/status/2084731301320691721 - Avi Ashkenazi: "that's cool!" Nil replied "thank you!" — https://x.com/Superavi1/status/2084894627388092573 - fabian: "dwawulating...vangoghulating...impressionating..." — https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/2084903003862028707 - yung algorithm pointed to a cheaper pen-plotter route and open resources. Nil replied "nicee! super useful." and described the archival pen requirements; yung replied "doppppeeee lmk how it goes" — https://x.com/yungalgorithm/status/2084909073691222233 - neer: "yeah dude this is sick" — https://x.com/thisisneer/status/2084927640545189962 - Raghav Agrawal asked which arm it was. Nil: "it's ufactory xarm 7!" — https://x.com/impactology/status/2085023485563486318 - VirtuallyInfinity6529: "This…. This is insane" — https://x.com/6metaverse/status/2085169335266599410 - anirudh quote-posted that Nil was getting AI to do exceptional things. Nil credited Codex and joked that his part was saying "continue..." — https://x.com/anirudhux/status/2084699424207610134 - Vivek quote-posted a "Thanks" GIF from The Bear — https://x.com/QriusV/status/2084701168421490832 - Burhan quote-posted that Nil was "letting agents vibe code while others are still vibe coding with the agents." Nil replied "wingardium leviosa" — https://x.com/BurhanUsman/status/2084743667273650301 The eight reply count on the root comprises the seven outside replies above plus Nil's technical follow-up. The reply and quote-post counters therefore should not be read as eight independent public comments and eight independent quote posts. Physical provenance: This is the successfully executed generated ginkgo variant: 256/256 strokes, 3,897 points, 11.486 m pen-down, 9.050 m pen-up, approximately 65 minutes of motion, fixed yaw, and a final controller receipt of state 4, queue 0, error/warn 0/0. It is distinct from a related 243-path canonical design plate that was never physically executed. ### 4 August 2026 — Reddit r/codex, ginkgo run Account: u/dhvanil Published: 2026-08-04 01:41:30 CEST URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/i_let_codex_operate_a_robot_arm_and_this_is_what/ Media: 1:11 video Exact copy: > I’ve been using Codex as the software operator for a real robot arm. For > this run, it prepared and executed a 256-stroke drawing, monitored the > controller, and handled the safe shutdown checks. > > Literally all the software for this project is written by Codex. From > camera capture and calibration to path execution, safety checks, logging, > etc. > > The rig has cameras for visual feedback, so Codex can inspect the paper, > check the calibration, and see the marks the arm makes. Owner analytics observed 2026-08-13 15:30 CEST: - 180K views - 1.2K displayed upvotes; Reddit did not expose an exact unrounded score - 98.8% upvote ratio - 157 comments - 325 shares - 3 reposts - 0 awards Reddit still marked it Nil's #1 post of all time at that snapshot. The "#1 post on r/codex that day" label belongs specifically to the 4 August launch snapshot. The complete public companion holds 153 distinct comment IDs against Reddit's displayed count of 157. The latest full rendering produced 149 comments; four older comments absent from that rendering remain preserved, and one newly rendered comment was added. This is a stated coverage gap, not a claim of completeness. Linked comment index: - bozzy253: "Woah this is very cool." Nil: "thank you!!" — https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/comment/p1ju4c4/ - ohnoitsbobbyflay joked about the arm begging Tibo for usage resets. Nil: "that is a wonderful idea 😬" — https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/comment/p1k0v6d/ - Hardware and price: Nil identified a second-hand UFactory xArm 7 — https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/comment/p1julht/ - Why an arm rather than a plotter: acrylic and oil paint, automatic pen swapping, angled brush strokes, pressure, impasto, and cyanotype — https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/comment/p1k0ryd/ - Camera and setup: Nil linked the PB29 human and plain-text project notes — https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/comment/p1p8khp/ - What was generated: Nil asked for an organic shape; Codex and Fable built a parameterized SVG system that produces related leaves — https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/comment/p1qddy0/ - G-code, kinematics, and camera loop: Nil explained the procedural SVG, 3,897 points, branch-pinned seven-DoF IK, FK route checks, and registered paper and magnets; 256 was coincidental — https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/comment/p1qc9gb/ - Speed: the published video was accelerated in places and Codex was operating cautiously — https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/comment/p1qd4wd/ - A film-industry reader described installation ideas prompted by the work; Nil replied "so cool! 💛" — https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/comment/p1p81cn/ - Detailed system-boundary follow-up: Nil thanked salsa_sauce for engaging with the kinematics explanation and linked both PB29 project notes — https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/comment/p1wpoee/ Full live discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vetuhn/i_let_codex_operate_a_robot_arm_and_this_is_what/ Complete captured response archive: https://dhvanil.com/pb27-marketing-comments.txt The public companion retains all 153 captured comment IDs, depths, timestamps, authors, visible scores, bodies, media links, and Nil's replies. Four displayed comments were not exposed by Reddit's rendered thread, so the archive is not described as exhaustive of the platform count. ### 18 July 2026 — X, AI agents are getting decent at drawing Account: @dhvanil Published: 2026-07-18 20:47:45 CEST URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2078552320007160013 Media: 12-second video Exact copy: > been teaching my ai agents to draw with this robotic, and they're getting > kind of decent now (: Owner analytics observed 2026-08-10 14:12 CEST: - 2,181 impressions - 107 engagements - 27 likes - 3 reposts - 2 replies - 1 bookmark - 441 unique video viewers and 520 video views - 28% video retention at 12 seconds The thread matters because a viewer asked to see the result. Nil followed with two finished images and an explicit note about unresolved yaw-dependent stick-slip rather than presenting the motion as solved. Replies captured through 2026-08-10: - WerthFinance: "I wanted to see the result." Nil followed with two finished images and the stick-slip note. WerthFinance then replied: "That's really good!" — https://x.com/WerthFinance/status/2078635463137693757 - gonzaleshvili called it "crazy good" and imagined replacing the pen with a blade for a Cricut/Silhouette-like use — https://x.com/gonzaleshvili/status/2078597086090506446 ### 10 July 2026 — X, Work Louder manual control Account: @dhvanil Published: 2026-07-10 12:08:06 CEST URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2075522442622124337 Media: 12-second video Exact copy: > Sol Ultra hooked up my ufactory robotic arm with @work_louder macro pad, > so i can jog it around in a nice fun way -- smth that i tried with 5.5 > xhigh for days and it stumbled many times! Owner analytics observed 2026-08-10 14:12 CEST: - 768 impressions - 41 engagements - 15 likes - 2 replies - 3 bookmarks - 237 unique video viewers and 276 video views - 25% video retention at 12 seconds The Work Louder account replied with a concrete product question about the joystick and Input software. The clip documents supervised manual control, not autonomous drawing authority. Replies captured through 2026-08-10: - Work Louder asked whether the joystick would be ideal and whether anything was missing in Input software — https://x.com/work_louder/status/2075623441034608744 - Nick Venturi said the tactile keys made controlling the arm look like a video game — https://x.com/nickventuri/status/2075807854305395067 - No Nil reply was visible at capture. ### 4 July 2026 — X, Claude and Codex quick sketches Account: @dhvanil Published: 2026-07-04 14:50:12 CEST URL: https://x.com/dhvanil/status/2073388911833780462 Media: one image Exact copy: > i asked claude and codex to do some quick sketches using an robotic arm -- > and it's cute how you can quickly make out what was made by whom with just > a 5 sec glance at the outputs Owner analytics observed 2026-08-10 14:12 CEST: - 635 impressions - 138 engagements - 13 likes - 5 replies - 1 bookmark This smaller post produced unusually substantive conversation relative to its reach: viewers asked about the physical setup, the models, sensors, future painting, and which marks belonged to which agent. Replies captured through 2026-08-10: - Burhan asked when the arm would make its first painting. Nil said it was a long way off, "but fingers crossed!" — https://x.com/BurhanUsman/status/2073389323005645123 - sahra: "i love the stuff you are up to" Nil: "thank you!! 🫶" — https://x.com/sahra_bn/status/2073399342019358842 - adagradschool said the urge to buy the arm was growing. Nil: "dooooo it! 🦾" — https://x.com/adagradschool/status/2073392264315855272 - betterclever guessed which marks belonged to each agent. Nil identified Claude's green spirographs and Codex's utilitarian Z-calibration lines — https://x.com/betterclever/status/2073399369353842874 - akashtattva asked for the full setup. Nil described the 7-DoF arm, 0.1 mm repeatability, pen-first plan, future acrylic/oil work, and overhead camera — https://x.com/akashtattva/status/2073390477228007824 - In the expanded branch, betterclever asked which Claude model made the marks. Nil said Opus and that Fable might come after load cells and sensors; betterclever looked forward to updates. akashtattva noted the later reinforcement-learning potential — https://x.com/betterclever/status/2073403503234756774 ## What the response is actually saying The Reddit post is the clear reach event. Across Reddit and X, the repeated questions are not merely generic enthusiasm: people want to know what Nil contributed, what Codex actually did, and why this uses a seven-axis arm rather than a plotter. The honest answer separates artistic direction, source choice, system design, calibration authority, generated geometry, deterministic execution, and the physical mark. TikTok begins a different framing. The robot speaks as a small learner rather than as a software demonstration. Day 002 had 714 views and 21 likes at the first snapshot, versus 630 views and 3 likes for day 001. That is a real early difference, but two posts are nowhere near enough evidence to turn the art into a format rule. The Faces Plate batch is an early, modest response rather than a zero-response launch: X reached 242 public views, Reddit 469, and TikTok 295 by the 21 August 23:50 CEST snapshot. All three went live between 22:25 and 23:09 CEST on a Friday. Timing is a plausible variable, but this batch cannot isolate it from platform, packaging, account reach, or ordinary variance. The arm's justification is not superiority at ordinary plotting. Its intended range is angled tools, compliant pressure, brushes, paint, impasto, tool changes, and a visibly embodied process. Current posts should stay tied to what the rig has physically demonstrated rather than borrowing authority from future plans. ## Data boundary - TikTok metrics came from the public profile, rendered post, and embedded item data. TikTok Studio owner analytics were not available during the 13 August or 21 August audits. - X owner analytics and public counters are preserved separately because they can disagree by a few views and measure differently. - Reddit's 180K snapshot is owner analytics from 13 August, not a live counter polled continuously after that date. - No private messages, cookies, tokens, drafts, or unrelated account data are included. - Third-party comments are linked to their public originals. X is complete only for the response threads captured through the dates stated above. The public companion contains the 153-of-157 cumulative ginkgo Reddit capture and states the remaining four-comment gap. It also records the new TikTok post's one counted but unrendered comment. - Publishing, replying, editing, deleting, boosting, and scheduling are outside this archive. It records posts; it does not operate the accounts.