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There are larger industrial robots that use secondary encoders to improve "out of the box" accuracy for more demanding tasks. The secondary joint feedback is paired with a kinemati…

The Voyager team did win the 1980 Collier Trophy which is the nobel prize of aerospace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier_Trophy

Shane Wighton's story of getting hired at Formlabs is interesting. He wanted to work for the company and didn't have a way in. He built a better version of their slicing software o…

I would recommend Citizenfour if you haven't seen it. It's a documentary where you essentially see Snowden leak the documents from his Hong Kong hotel room. It's amazing the footag…

Any suggestions for a mechanical engineer who has some coding aptitude and wants to switch careers? I'm self taught and have mostly worked on hobby projects. I have some profession…

As a long time CAD user I was surprised to learn that a CAD kernel exists as a concept and that the same kernel is licensed and used in competing CAD packages. Solidworks, Siemens …

Zeloof's father runs a sheet metal fabrication shop that makes components for other manufacturers. They do excellent work, I've worked with them in the past. I'm guessing his fathe…

The common term is "pneumatics" and the components are prevalent in all automation and manufacturing. The air required is typically compressed on site. Pneumatic actuators are rela…

If anyone is interested in factory automation I'm working on a site to catalog different processes. A good design can often be recycled into a similar machine. https://automate.eng…

I'm trying to design a vibratory bowl feeder that I can 3D print. Designing features to align or reject parts is a bit of a dark art and it's requiring a few more iterations than e…

I feel that GOES satellite imagery is a hidden gem, I'm surprised more people aren't working with it. The imagery is available at https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/ but is bett…

ProtoLabs is already successful in this space. I wonder what competitive advantage CloudNC has?

Construction is highly automated. Wing skins are created with automated fiber placement (AFP) https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/massi... The wings are assemble…