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I did some work recently while I was between jobs, designing and assembling camera lenses. It was so fascinating, and satisfying. Strongly disappointed they couldn't afford to pay …

I'm truly saddened to hear this Cliff, the way you wrote of her in your book showed such relatable affection.

In an old job I spliced a lot of fibre for our research, got the hang of it and got pretty proficient. My research shifted, and I start making sensors using fibre and similarly siz…

Currently doing the finishing touches on a ww2 era surface grinder, closing out a new little design, and ramping my fitness up again. Next up is some duct work, some reverse engine…

I've somewhat found the opposite. The cycle I've been in is has had a tight grip on my time and attention that's its been hard to keep up with anything not mission critical. Now I'…

I quit my job. Its forced me out of the cycle of 'just a bit more' and made change the only option. Is it the smartest move, likely not, but so far I stand by it.

A very good synopsis. I recently had the chance to put myself as the intermediate member between those expectations and our technical team. It raised the expectations on me, but he…

Thanks for your input and your time. A lot to think about. Much appreciated.

My position is that I've been in a failing start-up for years. Public company, but has burned through all their investment and has reached its ending days spiral. Small amount of e…

I guess my only question is how do you keep yourself from going broke while starting these projects. I've a chance to do some great work now, but it would lower my pay beneath what…

50% existential crisis, 50% meetings, 50% work a grad should be doing. I've just taken a week off to help extended family with a project, and it's reminded me what a good job is.

I think you can play, just much harder to get through the end game stage.

And the means to achieve that destruction. Cockatoos are like flying bolt cutters.

Which, in my experience, almost never has any impact on anything.

I do this a bunch at home, my setup has also migrated to work. Simple solution made with vinegar, salt and sodium laurel sulphate, then a couple of cheap nickel electrodes. Run cur…

Doesn't WiFi AC do beam forming?

Amongst a couple of guitar builds, I'm reverse engineering a bronze woodworking plane from the 80s/90s, a good friends dad used to make them. It's taken me over a decade to track o…

In my experience, you get labelled as not being a team player.

Awesome, that sounds like a lot of fun. Good luck to your applicants.

I would like to see that happen, however, the current available guidance from FWC is worded very with a vast deal of of flexibility in it, and is highly open to interpretation. A m…

With getting no overtime, no time off in lieu, and managers perpetually confusing a 'problem' with an 'emergency', I'm glad to see this happen. If it will actually make a differenc…

Nice one team, I like it. Anything a remote mech eng can help with? Not looking to be hired, but keen to help with something different.

Really it's both ways in terms of required current. The thermionic effect requires filament heat, which since being a filament, take some amount of current, often around half an am…