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Coding · 2026-09-12

Building robotics simulators and interactive lessons on a Mac Studio

A teacher uses local models to build topic-specific simulators, interactive lectures, and fast examples for students, while sending larger changes to cloud models when more context is needed.

This teacher uses local models to generate examples and interactive lectures, including a web simulator for an ABB Omnicore IRB 1090 arm with a RAPID code editor and simple 3D simulation. They also use local models to find errors in student programming projects and build focused interactive examples without recreating every component from scratch.

Setup

A Mac Studio M4 Max with 36GB unified memory.

Model roles

  • Tiel-coder-35B-A3B-MLX for faster, less sophisticated work
  • Qwen 3.8 27B at 4-bit with TurboQuant 8-bit for more serious work where speed is less important
  • Larger project changes may go to Gemini or GitHub Copilot
  • Also impressed by the small Ornith 1.5 9B
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CURRENT2026-09-12Building robotics simulators and interactive lessons on a Mac Studio

A teacher uses local models to build topic-specific simulators, interactive lectures, and fast examples for students, while sending larger changes to cloud models when more context is needed.

Coding1 machineTiel-coder-35B-A3B-MLX, Qwen 3.8 27B, Ornith 1.5 9BMLX
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DescriptionPreviousThis teacher uses local models to generate examples and interactive lectures, including a web simulator for an ABB Omnicore IRB 1090 arm with a RAPID code editor and simple 3D simulation. They also use local models to find errors in student programming projects and build focused interactive examples without recreating every component from scratch. The setup is a Mac Studio M4 Max with 36GB of unified memory. For faster, less sophisticated work they use Tiel-coder-35B-A3B-MLX; for more serious work where speed is less important, they use Qwen 3.8 27B at 4-bit with TurboQuant 8-bit. Larger project changes may go to Gemini or GitHub Copilot, and they were also impressed by the small Ornith 1.5 9B model.This snapshotThis teacher uses local models to generate examples and interactive lectures, including a web simulator for an **ABB Omnicore IRB 1090** arm with a RAPID code editor and simple 3D simulation. They also use local models to find errors in student programming projects and build focused interactive examples without recreating every component from scratch. ## Setup A Mac Studio M4 Max with **36GB unified memory**. ## Model roles - **Tiel-coder-35B-A3B-MLX** for faster, less sophisticated work - **Qwen 3.8 27B** at 4-bit with TurboQuant 8-bit for more serious work where speed is less important - Larger project changes may go to Gemini or GitHub Copilot - Also impressed by the small **Ornith 1.5 9B**

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REVISION 12026-09-12Building robotics simulators and interactive lessons on a Mac Studio

A teacher uses local models to build topic-specific simulators, interactive lectures, and fast examples for students, while sending larger changes to cloud models when more context is needed.

Coding1 machineTiel-coder-35B-A3B-MLX, Qwen 3.8 27B, Ornith 1.5 9BMLX

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