https://itohi.com/tags/pid-tuning/Recent content in Pid-Tuning on ITOHI — Open-Source Hardware, Embedded Systems & DIY BuildsHugo -- gohugo.ioen2022 @ ITOHI - All rights reservedTue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://itohi.com/fpv/fpv-tuning-sintra/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://itohi.com/fpv/fpv-tuning-sintra/ <p>This post grew out of the <a href="https://itohi.com/fpv/drone-detector-nn/">drone detector article</a>, where I mentioned using Sintra for the FPV side of the work. That mention deserves its own treatment, because it raises a question I want to address directly: why am I using an external AI tool for this instead of building my own?</p> <hr> <h2 id="why-sintra-not-my-own-ai">Why Sintra, Not My Own AI</h2> <p>There are projects in my history I don't talk about much. MentalMentor. BabyAI. Others at various levels of completion, none of which became products. The pattern is consistent across all of them: I build the technically interesting part — the architecture works, the core functionality is there — and then the work shifts to distribution, community building, marketing. Things that require either a budget I don't have or social capital I've never managed to accumulate. I have no network. I cannot self-promote. The projects expire quietly.</p>