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Inside the Idea Factory
Topics worth your time: the institutional design behind our generation’s moonshot factory, a public-data approximation of SpaceX’s Raptor 2 engine, Hugging Face’s $399 robot duck, and musings on why not about cables are created equal.
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Claude Learns the Factory
Topics worth your time this issue: Claude standardizes factory testing, the slow collapse of optical disc drives, part 3 of graduating from a garage machine shop, a16z's new Machine Age Fund, and more around the ecosystem.
P.S. Early acces...
Open-Sourcing the Inkjet Moat
Topics worth your time: the printer, the ink, and the moat; a field guide to choosing the right adhesives, why a BLDC motor's current rating != its power supply requirement, a novel approach to SLA printing eyeglass lenses, and the methodol...
Can America Still Make Things?
Topics worth your time: what a grill scrubber reveals about the incentives needed to seed reindustrialization, using metal 3D printing to make tooling for high-volume production, building an intuition for energy conversion, an archive of an...
Physical AI and the Factory Automation Trap
Topics worth your time: exploring whether ‘Physical AI’ could make automated assembly truly reusable across factory lines, a first-principles guide to photochemical etching, why China’s industrial strategy has struggled to produce jet engin...
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