JohanByttner

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by JohanByttner 9y ago
I agree that VR got a bit hyped. AM, however, is alive and well. The biggest issues are cost and time - AM takes a long time and requires an expensive machine. Thus you can print super-intricate structural parts of an airplane, but not brak
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by JohanByttner 9y ago
3D printers aren't material reassemblers. They replace milling and lathing when those methods take a day or more per part. You won't see it in your cupboard but rather a flight engineer might use it.
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by JohanByttner 9y ago
I second this. I'm part of an university team building a racecar and we mostly use additive manufacturing for carbon fibre parts that are difficult to lay by hands, such as the intake and certain wings. For this we just need basic poly
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by JohanByttner 10y ago
42 is from Douglas Adams, the answer to the question of life and all that. I do t know about the age limit, but it might be some (possibly faulty) reasoning about commitment. Staff have been tight-lipped. We have some people from the Pole E
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by JohanByttner 10y ago
From what the staff have told us in Paris, 42 isn't approved by the authorities, so they cannot use the official channels to offer visa sponsorships. Some students sign up for language courses so they can attend. Sad, but not much that
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by JohanByttner 10y ago
There is something similar called NMITE, which is run by a few universities. If you want a 42-like school, speak with your local MP. 42 is run on a budget of €7m (approximately) per year, and it would be very affordable if the government go
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by JohanByttner 10y ago
This course is not a bootcamp. It is a substitute for an undergraduate degree and it is intended to give you a similar width and depth of knowledge (undergraduate degrees in Europe are three years). In France there are very few schools teac