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Pop Goes the Hinge
Topics worth your time: viewing foldable reliability from factory yield to the bathtub curve, deterministic design catalyzed by bursts of creativity, what an IP rating can (not) tell you about a hinge, and another big week of funding for au...
What’s Happening With Robot Hands?
Topics worth your time: torque density and the gearbox tradeoff at the heart of dexterous hands, cross-sections of everything from the inside out, a fusion startup claims to have turned mercury into gold, and more.
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Let’s Livestream Factories
Topics worth your time: livestreams from JLCPCB’s factory floor, understanding how Formlabs took a $2,600 printer down to $699, the challenges of standing up a domestic PCB fab, how a fake tire sensor once duped a Tesla, and more.
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How to Make a Car Fly
Topics worth your time: the fan-driven downforce and cold-gas thrusters behind Tesla’s ‘flying’ Roadster, understanding the nuance between engineering ambition and practicality, NASA’s primer on COPVs, and more.
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