Pete Oxenham @peteoxenham Twitter profile

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Pete Oxenham

3 months

Okay, time for a DFM roast so all you engineers can see how machinists think. @emm0sh volunteered this part, I don't have the time to do a full write up so I'm just gonna live tweet me going through it, exposing the sins, and optimizing it (1 of ?)

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Pete Oxenham

@peteoxenham

4 months

The aurora borealis is absolutely majestic

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“Engineering rarely has great taste” Oh you mean all the coolest shit humanity had ever invented?

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@peteoxenham @jack24dd30 It's great on the track, but that's not the same as tasteful. Engineering rarely has great taste, because it's a seperate skill. Much like the most over-engineered running shoes used by professionals generally look bad, supercars rarely look good anywhere but max out on a track.

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Danielle Fong 🏴‍☠️

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man, i thought yann was joking it's kinda wild to be like elon, nobody will ever hear of your work, since you didn't publish

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8 months

The boys in the group chat and I have been working on identifying all the machines in this video for about 30 minutes so far. Will update with progress.

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@tim_cook

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Apple Vision Pro pre-orders begin today! We’re so excited for you to experience spatial computing for the first time!

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1 year

Nobody wants to admit it, but this is our best shot at getting Gen Z into manufacturing

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@peteoxenham

8 months

Machining Apple's Vision Pro Headset Apple's manufacturing processes are some of the best in the world, and shrouded in secrecy with the exception of their occasional manufacturing videos. Based on the clips, let's break down the machining shown in the latest video step by step.

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4 months

Hot take, the engineering resources put into making these devices ever thinner would be better spent elsewhere. Seems like putting arbitrary (maybe marketing?) constraints on super talented engineers. give em an extra MM and see what they can do!

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@noahhermanyt

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the new iPad Pro 13" is crazily thin 🤯

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@VLONEPREDATOR He is committed to delivering excellence, I respect it

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Request for startup: Factorio clone but it’s secretly a two sided marketplace and you’re tricking gamers into running real factories for free

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8 months

@aphysicist Long live freedom, dammit!

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5 months

It’s a tragedy mindstorms was discontinued. This brick sparked my love of programming and building. Still have one in my office as a nice reminder

The Universal Procrastinational Constant

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5 months

Who else learned more from this than ~2/3rds of undergrad?👀

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7 months

Just remembered you can use McMaster like this

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2 months

@jack24dd30 Koenigsegg is a very tasteful choice

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@peteoxenham

3 months

Somebody has to say it

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3 months

Haas VF2SSYT CNC mill being transported up a mountain in the Swiss Alps. Beautiful

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8 months

I want to start a factory nerd tour group: - Regional chapters - Arrange monthly insider tours of cool factories via the connections of the folks in the group - Get food/beers after, since manufacturing nerds are the most fun to hang out with - Annual overseas trip to tour an

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8 months

CNC detective breakthrough! Looks like Apple is using Haas DC-1 machines to make the Vision Pro. This machine was just announced on 1/16/24, and it was a bit of a mystery why they would replace their DT/DM line with a machine whose main difference is just the chips coming out the

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@peteoxenham

2 months

@1Andrew_J @jack24dd30 If your “taste” in cars is just based on looks, you have no taste. Go back to scrolling your instagram discover page.

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That look of regret every mfg nerd’s wife has when they say “just put something on” and they realize they have to watch crazy Canadian man again

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4 months

Yup, you’re totally right. The only reason industry is not fully automated is because we’re all a bunch of dumb hillbillies who have never heard of GPUs. My bad.

Air Katakana

@airkatakana

4 months

give me a robot and a gpu i could put this guy and everyone he knows and loves out of a job in less than a week

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4 months

Not a light curtain in sight. just robots living in the moment. absolutely beautiful

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Visited this factory in China. Before they needed 10 people, now only one is in charge🤦‍♂️

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2 months

Here’s the reupload of the Jones/FF video for yall since I had a little snafu with X @Support Technical issues cannot defeat the human spirit!!

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@peteoxenham

2 months

This is a real thing. I am completely unable to use alibaba and many Chinese sites for the past 3 years. The DNS servers don’t resolve. In 2021 I made a WeChat account with the password “fucktheccp” My hunch was that they were scraping supposedly encrypted data, and I was right.

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Request for Fund: Only invest in founders sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party.

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@peteoxenham

2 months

@1Andrew_J I’m not one for social or aesthetic conventions. I’d rather make great things

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5 months

Just witnessed a lady buying $1000 worth of iTunes gift cards. How do you politely tell these people they’re in the middle of getting scammed?

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8 months

@BlueEagle28 @WillRepost4food A/B testing lol

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4 months

Battle Bots needs to start a dedicated aerial league

Kenneth Cassel

@KennethCassel

4 months

drone on drone violence is out of hand

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@peteoxenham

8 months

It’s genuinely heartwarming to see all the enthusiasm for CNC machining on Twitter lately. Our industry is facing a huge skill gap, but it’s not going to be solved by training new machinists in the old ways. It’s going be solved by new blood diving in, learning, and innovating.

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@peteoxenham

7 months

Feelin a bit burnt lately out on all the long term business stuff so I decided to spend the last 36 hours banging out a real feature, and testing on a real CNC machine. No offense to anybody, but making factory machines think is way cooler than writing billing notification logic

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@peteoxenham

9 months

8 years ago today I took delivery of my first CNC machine. Had no clue what I was in for, but that was a life changing purchase.

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@peteoxenham

8 months

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of Chinese CNC tiktok videos entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on

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@peteoxenham

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@GravitysRa1nbow Don’t forget

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@peteoxenham

8 months

I guess we're doing this! Introducing Factory Walks I'm currently putting together our first event together for SF / Bay area, then we will roll out to other regions. Link in tweet below to get plugged in. Also, if you want to be an organizer in your region, check the box!

Pete Oxenham

@peteoxenham

8 months

I want to start a factory nerd tour group: - Regional chapters - Arrange monthly insider tours of cool factories via the connections of the folks in the group - Get food/beers after, since manufacturing nerds are the most fun to hang out with - Annual overseas trip to tour an

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3 months

@levelsio Honestly both go hard in their own way

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@peteoxenham

8 months

At this point every possible dunk has already been made on Bird, so I'll just say that being a machining supplier to them was one of the most incredible and challenging adventures of my life so far! Collaborating on design, engineering, and manufacturing at breakneck speed -

TechCrunch

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9 months

Bird has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, capping off a turbulent year for the electric scooter company. Read more:

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Happy Father’s Day to the man who taught me how to build a computer at 6, took me to Barnes & Noble every week to browse Linux magazines. Set up his own father’s mill and lathe in our garage for me to learn to machine. Took me to church each Sunday to learn to serve others and

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It's worth paying attention to the workholding trick they use to get a full profile around the part. The program starts with the four corners clamped and the center two clamps open. During the program, the machine swaps the clamps around to allow access to machine a "pad" for

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3 months

Fusion haters have no leg to stand on. Multi axis cam for $40 a month with FULL MACHINE SIMULATION as a standard feature. The sim alone would cost you $10k+ less than 5 years ago but thanks to amazing product people (shoutout to Al) this is on your computer in a few clicks.

Pete Oxenham

@peteoxenham

6 months

Finally got a chance to dig into some of the new CAM features in Fusion, specifically the geodesic strategy and full machine sim. They've come a long way in just a yr Geodesic is nuts, only took me about 5 clicks to get a perfect surfacing strategy, and they didn't neglect 4ax!

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@peteoxenham

1 year

When I was 20 I financed a $130,000 CNC machine and paid it off by doing this crazy thing called “making my monthly payment”

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In 2012, I graduated from Fordham Law School with $180,000 is student loan debt. I’ve been paying loans for 11 years. Even paid two of them off completely. In 2023, my balance is $206,000.

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OSG is wild for this

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Acero Precision is quite possibly the most beautiful machine shop in the world. Goals

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@15Redstones For sure, but I think that bolsters my point. The shape of it is purely driven by a chosen set of functional requirements, and it’s freaking gorgeous.

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Engineers - send me your parts to get DFM roasted by machinists on live stream! We’re calling it: Out of Spec, presented by @WithinTolerance and Chatter

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@JackRhysider @elonmusk Big fan, happy to! putting the culture war bs aside - many believe that a loving, caring, and engaged parent is best equipped to guide their child through their personal growth, and that the school should communicate to the parents any personal challenges they’ve observed going

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Got an Instagram ad, and now I’ve found myself in a bidding war for a pair of Garrett TFE731-3-1H turbine engines Chat what’s a fair price?

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The CNC industry has been plagued by a bunch of B2B SaaS trying to sell shit to machine shops, but nobody has really closed that loop to make a real platform that empowers the inevitable future - autonomous machines shops.

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@peteoxenham

8 months

Here's the DC-1 demo. This machine's introductory base price is $39,995. Super good deal for a compact high speed machine IMO

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@peteoxenham

8 months

Extrusion - The vision pro headset starts as an extrusion which we see in the opening shot. Molten aluminum is pushed through a custom die to create bars (usually 12ft) of the outside profile. From there, an automated saw cuts each bar to proper length for machining.

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Most machinists I know can see down to ~0.008in differences with the naked eye. Hard to explain, but it’s true

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@peteoxenham

3 months

My thoughts on the big shift in the machining industry - the "instamachinist" generation is coming in, the older generation is phasing out, and PE firms getting in on the action. Most work in this $200bn+ market ultimately is done by small/mid businesses today. (thread)

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kache

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im a bitch.. got filtered by the shaders for glb

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@emm0sh Screw it, let’s make this a thing. If you want your parts roasted send them in. I’ll get the boys together on live stream and we’ll make fun of you.

Pete Oxenham

@peteoxenham

3 months

Engineers - send me your parts to get DFM roasted by machinists on live stream! We’re calling it: Out of Spec, presented by @WithinTolerance and Chatter

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Off the bat, we have the cardinal sin of zero radius internal pocket corners. A round tool can't get into a corner. Some of the others are radiused so I'm just assuming it's a mistake and i'm going to note that I'm making this change for later

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Machining - Op 10 - 3 Axis Mill The blank is loaded into a fixture with six pneumatic clamps, and four of them are secured at the beginning of the program. The machine here is a 30 taper compact footprint mill similar to Fanuc Robodrill or a Brother Speedio. These things are all

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As VCs get more excited about “hard tech”, please please please watch out for the larpers. Us industry folks can see them from a mile away.

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Forbes top article of the day is about CNC machining and @2112Power , can I get a hell yeah?

Forbes

@Forbes

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Chris Power has raised $180 million to manufacture metal parts at warp speeds at his California factory. Now he’s got plans to build a network of them across the country to make more parts better, faster and cheaper. #BillionDollarStartups

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First part of open source python package for CNCs “chattertools” drops tomorrow! This industry has been held back for too long by proprietary, poorly documented, and ill-maintained software tools for folks who just want to make great stuff. Chatter is here to change that :)

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3 months

Here's a hot tip - your floor radii should be "nominal" because they are determined by the tool geometry, but your internal wall radii should not be. That's because for a 1/2" tool to get into a 1/4" radius, it has to make a straight corner which is not good, because you are

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this is critical to pax americana @elonmusk

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can we get Manufacturing and Robotics as topics please @elonmusk

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@Iinux Oh boy

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Other arguably bigger problem here is that the wall radius is the same as the floor radius. Floor radii are fine, actually good, but we want to machine those with a bull nose endmill not have to jam a ball nose in there. the results will be ugly and bad if we do that Ball nose

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Man, seeing @JeffBezos standing in his own machine shop nerding out about details really warms my heart. You can always tell when somebody is genuinely involved and excited. We are so back

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Join @JeffBezos for a tour inside @blueorigin 's New Glenn Production Facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This video was shot on May 30th, 2024. 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Interview Starts [Lobby] 05:20 - Recovering Saturn V Engines 08:35 - Tank Production 16:40 - Second Stage

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A few months ago we set out to make the smartest, most intuitive scheduler for CNC shops. Really happy with the kanban<->calendar interactions here.

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I have the team and the tech to rescue American manufacturing from this $250Bn problem. Call me if you want to be involved.

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@emm0sh I'm just busting balls here, but this is supposed to be a dfm roast right. Prints are important! That is your contract with the machinist! You can leave the tolerances as open as you like, but they must be defined.

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I raise you: the pink Matsuura

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The pink Haas CM-1 CNC mill is real and it's awesome.

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@conorsen I’m actually cool with this, love our UPS drivers. They work super hard, always with a smile on

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I just used @KennethCassel 's factory from my command line 😎

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@legistechlg @foundersfund I want to see you truly live, I want to see you truly be who you are!!

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Which brings us to the final and most grave sin that @emm0sh committed - NO DRAWING! I don't know what material I'm supposed to be machining. The tolerances? The finish? I don't know anything about this part besides its shape. VERDICT: This part is not ready for manufacturing.

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Unpopular opinion- mechanical keyboards are obnoxiously loud, uncomfortable to use, and annoying to your coworkers

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Our new open source python package ChatterTools is the quickest way to start interacting with CNC machines via programming, ever. Demoed it to my coworker and he said "wtf this is even better than our internal tools"

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Machining - Op 20 - 5 axis The part, in flipped orientation, goes into a compact 5 axis mill to machine the outside curvature and the other side of the part which was faced down on op 10. The machine here appears to be very close to a JingDiao GRA100.

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Here’s ChatterSync! Free and open source sftp file transfer for your CNC machines. Compatible with our VSCode extension of course. Total BOM cost is ~$30. Hardware list, SD card image, and STEP files for the enclosure are all in the repo. We build this

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Second, we have this ridiculous radius on the floor that I am certain is completely arbitrary because it's nominal 6mm. I have my stuff set to inch but I've seen the number 0.236in on radii enough to know when engineers are up to these games

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I feel seen

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Nobody at the Mellow Mushroom knows I’m carrying 🌈

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Hot take: If a manufacturing facility strikes you as complex when you tour it, they’re doing something wrong The world class factories I’ve toured all look too simple, bc the hard work to create a great operation is done under the hood, so that the operation itself looks boring

Chris Powers

@fortworthchris

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Hot take: Boeing is an incredible company. I toured their Charleston facility in 2019 and it was like witnessing a miracle on earth. The complexity of it all is on another level. 100’s of thousands of pieces put together to build 787s. Destroying aerospace supply

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@peta @DaddyDunk82 yum

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Last, a robot holds up the part and presents it to a fiber laser for some final engraving. Also worth noting here - Apple is known to use fiber lasers for not just engraving, but also deburring, which is awesome. Unclear if they are doing any deburring with this laser, but it's

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American dynamism hack

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@aphysicist

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another successful supply drop to fuel the American industrial base by @johncoogan , this one landed at @atomic_inc , thx @LucyNicotine

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Umm wtf Elon musk stole my meme???

Elon Musk

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3 months

@nima_owji @ylecun I just wish Yan Lecan’t would stop sending me this sh$t 😢

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Shout out to @gak_pdx for inspiring this, check out his post on the Apple watch (archive link since the original site seems to be down) Also shout out to @BreakingTaps for spitballing ideas in discord and the group chat boys for helping ID machines.

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Currently standing in front of the worlds largest steam locomotive with my dad. How’s your Saturday?

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Made the pilgrimage to the factory of the future. Thanks for having me out @2112Power !

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Delusional take. If China is eating your lunch, poor QC is not the issue. They have simply been able to optimize better towards what the market requires. Better mech engineers and better process engineers will give us an advantage. Getting mad at the Chinese will get you nowhere

Tucker Goodrich

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@GruenwaldK Yes, exporting production to China has been a huge disaster for quality control. Same thing I've heard about seals in multiple car brands, Porsche, Honda, BMW. I guess increased profitability makes up for increased short-term warranty costs, and screw the customer long-term.

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That’s called traffic brother

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There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.

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@dickmasterson it’s really good to see you in church, buddy

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As the founder of a 2 person co with actual customers, this scene haunts me daily

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Russ Hanneman really was the smartest person on “Silicon Valley”. RICHARD: We can offset a lot of [expenses] once we get a few customers and start a subscription revenue model. RUSS: Revenue? No no no no. Why would you go after revenue? If you show people revenue, they’ll ask

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"Manufacturing twitter" is on the move, so @emm0sh and I are doing a little work behind the scenes to make our spaces better: - Better mics through the computer so that you can relisten without being tortured by airpods quality audio. Thanks to @andrewmccalip for this tip. game

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I think it would be healthy for a lot of manufacturing tech startups out there to hear how machinists talk about them in the back channels 🤐

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The elites don’t want you to know you can just learn how to program your city’s traffic lights on youtube (default password is 0000)

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Pete Oxenham

@peteoxenham

4 months

can’t wait to be surprised by the answer!

Autodesk Fusion

@adskFusion

4 months

Ever wonder what the difference is between additive and subtractive manufacturing? The answer might surprise you! Learn more over at the Autodesk Fusion blog:

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Pete Oxenham

@peteoxenham

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REQUEST: Of my 5k+ followers on here, most of whom are in engineering or manufacturing, has ANYONE successfully used MBD for a project that: - involves 2 or more organizations - has successfully produced production parts (no demos) If so, I’d love to talk to you!