The My Equation Blog
Robotics, built and explained.
Field notes from the workshop — ROS 2, embedded systems, EV powertrains and the AI that ties them together. Written by the mentors who teach it.
AI & Machine Learning · 7 min read · 26 Aug 2025
Why Train from Scratch? Just Fine-Tune LLMs Using Hugging Face Instead
You are not going to train a foundation model on a laptop. But you can take one that already exists and teach it your data — recipes, company docs, university notes. A step-by-step LoRA walkthrough on a free Colab GPU.
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Automation · 9 min read · 31 Jul 2025
You, n8n and Your First AI Agent, Built in 30 Minutes
OpenAI's agent framework isn't free. n8n is. A complete, screenshot-by-screenshot build of a WhatsApp chatbot with memory, running on your own machine, using Docker and Gemini.
AI & Machine Learning · 5 min read · 21 Jul 2025
Andrej Karpathy Said "Context Engineering Is the New Vibe Coding"
Another buzzword, or the thing that actually separates an average prompt from a jaw-dropping output? A plain-English walk through GenAI, prompting, and why context — not cleverness — decides what you get back.
Programming · 4 min read · 19 Jun 2025
The Art of Doing Everything All at Once in Python
map(), filter(), reduce() and multithreading — the weird, powerful, slightly intimidating end of Python. Including why your threads aren't actually running at the same time, and what the GIL has to do with it.
Robotics · 4 min read · 26 Oct 2024
Why ROS is the Lifeline of Every Engineer
Self-driving cars, surgical robots, Mars rovers — none of them get built if every engineer starts from scratch. Here is what ROS actually is, and what robotics would look like without it.