wigiv

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by wigiv 1y ago
This is absolutely not my area of expertise, and I can't fully vouch for how well it works, but I was looking for a similar solution for consistency across website graphics and came across this walkthrough for consistent game assets:
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by wigiv 2y ago
This might be a sub-strategy of the broader manufacturing technique called “binning” in which products of varying quality, size/weight, performance, or some other variable parameter are sorted for later re-combining into similar groups
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by wigiv 2y ago
Reminds me of the "Exact Instructions Challenge" videos where kids write instructions for some everyday task - like making a PB&J sandwich - and parents, hilariously, follow the instructions verbatim. https://www.yo
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by wigiv 3y ago
There are quite a few specific examples, all on a spectrum of technical and economic feasibility, of course. Here’s a great place to start: https://www.factoriesinspace.com/
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by wigiv 3y ago
As a mechanical engineer absolutely obsessed with Lego at a young age, I’ve recently (ie, when I could afford to start buying Lego again!) had to reconcile what I previously enjoyed about building with what I enjoy now. As a child, the joy
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by wigiv 3y ago
Seems like an open-source/DIY or kit (requiring some assembly) for educational applications is great in the context of a class or project where building/fixing/upgrading the robot is the point, and where 3D printing is readil
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by wigiv 3y ago
My company designed and built the first few prototypes for a startup, Throne Labs, who deploy prefab, off-grid, (semi-)publicly-accessible (you have to have their app) bathrooms. Seems like they solved some core problems: finding suitable s
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by wigiv 3y ago
We turn shipping containers into microfactories that can be deployed anywhere on Earth. We also retrofit containers for all kinds of fun modular commercial, industrial, and even residential purposes.
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by wigiv 3y ago
I have no affiliation and no idea what the current status of their effort is, or if they are working with orcas specifically, but this group has crossed my radar a few times: https://www.earthspecies.org/
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by wigiv 4y ago
It may seem cheesy and somewhat simplistic at first, but after you get over the cutesy anecdotes and jokes, the book/method "Slicing Pie" by Mike Moyer has been a very helpful resource for me during several very early-stage b
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by wigiv 4y ago
MODICA (Techstars '21 with Stanley Black & Decker) | Software Architect (Platform Development) + more roles | Seattle (preferred), Remote (US, intermittent) | Full-time | https://www.madebymodica.com/ MODICA turns
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by wigiv 5y ago
Granted, no, I don't want my $2,000 exercise entertainment center to show up visibly rusting to pieces, but as a mechanical engineer who works a lot with weathering steels (like Corten), and steels of all kinds that rust more or less,
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by wigiv 6y ago
Disclaimer: my company is a Vention "Certified System Integrator" in the Pacific Northwest USA. I can say that Vention, along with their comparables in the modular framing/light automation world (see: Bosch Rexroth, Item Nort
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by wigiv 6y ago
Not entirely accurate. Certainly for metals, stone, and other hard materials the entrained abrasive is doing the cutting, but water-only waterjet cutting is used for a lot of things: foams, rubbers, plastics, fibrous materials, food, sensit
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by wigiv 6y ago
Sure thing! Looking forward to hearing from you.
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by wigiv 6y ago
Sure - we're a startup (MODICA Microindustries) working on a related problem (modular manufacturing equipment), and we spun up a subsidiary (Harbor Island Waterjet) offering waterjet cutting services as a job shop since we had excess c
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by wigiv 6y ago
For floppy materials we use a few approaches: first, instead of putting the material on the standard "metal slat" bed, we use a product called Rhino Board, which is essentially a whole bunch of plastic straws glued together into a
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by wigiv 6y ago
Site is down, so I'm winging this comment until I can check again later or find an archive, but I wanted to note that my company has cut all kinds of fabric (and also food!) using a "water-only" (ie, no entrained abrasive) me
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by wigiv 6y ago
Within our lifetimes (say, the next 40-60 years), no, personally I don't think we'll see completely autonomous end-to-end manufacturing widely implemented (as much as I'd like to, considering it's a problem space I focus
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by wigiv 6y ago
Speaking as someone who has been responsible for "turning the lights back on" to fix problems with "fully-automated", "lights-out" factory lines, much of this paper still rings true forty years on - if nothing
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by wigiv 6y ago
Can't speak to living spaces since we don't do that, but you have the basic process in mind. You might rip the floor planks/panels out entirely, eliminating the smelly, pesticide- laden lumber and giving access to more metal
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by wigiv 6y ago
Structural modular with offsite prefab, for sure, but I don't know any specifics on the Wuhan hospital builds. From some other coverage, the units appear to have ISO corner castings, but the proportions don't look like 'norma
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by wigiv 6y ago
Certainly - the companies (mostly in China) that manufacture containers will do one-offs. They can be specified with less toxic epoxies and composite/alternative flooring, and any cutouts or other features you want to end up with. This
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by wigiv 6y ago
My company works with shipping containers daily - we modify them for industrial and manufacturing purposes. We reached out to the CURA team several weeks ago, offering our capacity if they scale/deploy their concept. They are currently
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by wigiv 7y ago
Does anyone here have any personal, specific, actionable knowledge of the melt-blown plastics process? Are there alternatives for achieving the N95 (or sufficient) filtration levels in a different sheet material? Automating many steps of as
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by wigiv 7y ago
I balked at first glance because "free energy," but here we have a unique method for turning thermal into kinetic energy. Slightly outside the bounding box of this energy system, of course, lies the expending of more energy than w
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by wigiv 8y ago
In 2016 Seattle hosted a recreation (or maybe it was a memorial?) of 9 Evenings called 9e2. Organized by John Boylan, whose "Conversations" series is worth checking out, 9e2 was fun and intermittently thought-provoking but from wh
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by wigiv 8y ago
It's nice to see more options becoming available in this space. Industrial PCs (and, in the same vein, PLCs) from the old-guard industrial automation providers are generally lackluster for the cost, in my experience. So many acts of in