Carpentry egocentric video: wood, saws and joints, from the carpenter’s point of view.
First-person footage of Nigerian carpenters making furniture and fittings to order: marking boards, hand and power sawing, planing, drilling, gluing and nailing joints, then sanding and finishing.
Free 10-hour sample first. A person replies within one working day.
Carpentry and furniture making, step by step.
Furniture workshops and timber yards in Lagos, many in open sheds with sawdust, offcuts and part-built pieces all around.
Measure and mark
Tape, square and pencil on planks; checking lengths against a plan or an old piece.
Cut and shape
Hand saws, circular saws and jigsaws; chisels for joints; planing edges straight.
Join
Drilling, gluing, nailing and screwing joints; clamping while glue sets.
Finish
Sanding, filling, staining or painting; fitting hinges, handles and upholstery.
What is in the worker’s hands.
- Hand saw, circular saw, jigsaw
- Hammer, mallet and chisels
- Plane and sanding block
- Drill and screwdriver
- Clamps, square, tape
- Planks, plywood, nails, glue
Interactions worth labelling.
- Sawing along a line with one hand bracing the workpiece
- Hammering and nailing: grasp, place, strike
- Assembly: fitting parts together in sequence
- Measuring and checking with a rule or square
- Surface work: sanding and brushing in long strokes
Why carpentry footage helps robotics and video models.
Assembly sequences
Furniture is built part by part in a set order, ideal for learning multi-step assembly from human demonstration.
Classic tool-use actions
Saw, hammer, drill, chisel: the core actions in many manipulation benchmarks, in a real setting.
Rigid and semi-rigid objects
Boards, panels and offcuts give a range of sizes and weights for grasp and placement learning.
How each clip is recorded and delivered.
- Camera
- Head-mounted smartphone, 1080p at 30 fps (H.264), wide field of view
- Sensors
- IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope) and GPS recorded alongside the video as CSV sidecars
- Your hardware
- Stereo, depth or multi-camera rigs supported if you ship them: we fit them and train recorders
- Label layers
- Curated minutes, 21-keypoint hand pose, action segments, captions
- Privacy
- Faces of bystanders and number plates blurred in every delivered file
- Formats
- MP4 + JSON per clip, IMU/GPS CSV sidecar, LeRobot or RLDS on request
- Delivery
- Weekly batches over signed links, with a manifest and a QA report
- Dust
- Sawdust can settle on the lens; recorders wipe it at breaks and we cut blurred minutes
- Power tools
- Recorders keep both hands on the tool; we never ask for one-handed work for a better shot
- Light
- Open sheds give soft daylight; evening work under bulbs is labelled
Four checks before a minute reaches you.
ID-checked recorders
BVN or NIN plus a live selfie matched to the ID, and a bank account in the same name, before any paid task.
Consenting workplaces
Each workplace is registered in person by a TrustAm field agent, with the owner’s consent and a location fence.
Live capture only
A spoken challenge code, motion sensors and GPS show each clip was filmed live, at work. No camera-roll uploads.
Blurred and reviewed
Bystander faces and number plates are blurred; a trained reviewer approves or cuts every minute before delivery.
Buyers usually ask.
Do clips show a whole piece being built?
Often, over several sessions. We link sessions for the same piece in the metadata so you can rebuild the full sequence.
Can you include joinery only, without power tools?
Yes. Tell us the actions you want and we keep only those minutes.
How do I order carpentry egocentric video?
Email [email protected] or use the request form with the carpentry tasks, hours, label layers and format you need. We record a free sample of about 10 hours to your spec first. Pricing is quoted per approved hour after scoping.
How many hours can you deliver?
We are a Lagos pilot collecting to order and scaling. After the free sample, a paid pilot is usually 100 to 500 hours in weekly batches. We do not promise hours we have not recorded.
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Tell us what you need. We send a free sample first.
Email [email protected] with the data type, hours, languages or trades, labels and format. Pricing is quoted per approved hour after scoping.