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Hardware FYI, Cooper Shea, Benji ChiaThe best hardware resources in one place, delivered weekly.
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The Crowdfunding Mirage
Topics worth your time: what the early IoT boom actually proved about crowdfunding as a business model, the original Oculus and Formlabs product campaigns, demystifying the math behind the Smith chart, and the true cost behind smooth surfac...
The Cheap Drone Problem for Tanks
Topics worth your time: how cheap drones are changing the economics of armored warfare, what Sainte-Chapelle reveals about engineering before formal theory, Reflect Orbital’s proposed sunlight-bending satellite, and a map of the engineering...
The $800K Bounty to Go Mach 1
Topics worth your time: why constrained engineering problems tend to converge on the same shapes, Boom’s $800K amateur Mach 1 prize for RC planes, 1X’s new tendon-driven NEO hand, and an ultrasound-based approach to silent speech.
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Never Trust The Autorouter
Happy long weekend. With how quickly things have moved over the last year, I still find that the best ideas worth surfacing, and the best writing we do, come from a place of genuine curiosity. More than anything, I hope this newsletter give...
Why AR Glasses Still Don’t Scale
A lot of this newsletter is curation, which mostly means reading, sorting, and deciding what’s worth surfacing. This week I wanted to try something a little different and let the issue follow a few intellectual curiosities more directly. Th...
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