3D printing, chips, maker spaces, materials, gadgets. 30 posts.
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100k parallel work hours
Currently new innovation is random or circumstantial based, Innovation happens in parallel, 10000 simultaneous new projects done by public every day, if random next stage builds on previous innovations, … (Whiel some are planned …
electron→protein actuation; volumetric FPGA-like matter programming
Every action takenby hand, arms, legs, body, with certain force, typically action nowadays for many is manipulating electrons in silicon with precision, in predefined compartments (i.e. no free), that its flow relates to …
volumetric laser sintering; CAL, 2PP, acoustic holography
Generate any 3d from click of a button with guided laser 3d focal enabling structures to be build within seconds a device capable of focusing on a tiny voxel able to melt material powder in that region. Which also can scan and …
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TinyTapeout, Efabless, MEMS foundries, Aalto Nanofab; fab-as-a-service
Commercialization has grown to different heights, now to offer the value for the buck, the work has transformed from being doing it ourselves, to “have money?, you can buy it” where the accumulated ‘favor’ (according to rules of …
Dyson fan unaffordable → make own fan
Person living an experience, as it seems, some part of experience relies on experience of making or getting the next experience or some material thing, or relies on already having the experience and materials to achieve the next …
AI: full fab flow, CapEx >$10B
Independent Foundry Setup 1. RAW MATERIAL TO WAFER Process Steps: Silicon purification Ingot growth (Czochralski or FZ) Wafer slicing Edge rounding Polishing & cleaning Equipment: High-temp arc furnaces (for Si purification) …
map2model, QR keychain, "space music deployable tags"
3D prints: world map 2d (elevated buildings): https://map2model.com/ QR: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1285451-qr-code-generator-for-keychain?from=search (and other, check makerworld) Space music deployable tags (play …
potato pancake photo; matter first
While cooking the potato pancake that I have I thought what would I eat, if it wasn’t materialistic, although one can eat ideas, that wouldn’t give the hunger away. So getting material is the most important part of anything, …
brain→paper→parts→matter; robot-arm art refs
Somehow somewhere in the neural network brain of human, new idea is found, perhaps its just due to time evolution, but there is also qualia, the feeling or perception of what is after flow of activity or thinking. Humans …
wearable climate vest (AI generated)
Gadget Idea: Modular Personal Climate Cocoon (MPC-Cocoon) Description: The MPC-Cocoon is a portable, wearable, modular climate-control system that creates a microenvironment around the user. It adjusts temperature, humidity, and …
GPT: carbyne, borophene…, nuclear-force materials; "AI model that harbors all materials" wish; Planet Crafter again
Me: which material is stronger than graphene ChatGPT4o: While graphene is incredibly strong, there are other materials that can rival or exceed its strength in specific contexts. Below is a list of materials that may be …
dream lab (GPT, repeated text 4×); organic computers; lab-as-cell; 15 images
A dream of an ideal lab of one person (or many), which has all things the world has. artificial organic computers (in addition to brain, but as tools), organic actuators (like muscles and controllers but artificial), here is some …
motion achieved; GitHub; video
So I was able to get some movement in the robot arm. I realized I had put wrong pulley shaft in the larger cycloidal gear, which I changed. These couple of days (in one sitting spanning 16-18 hours), I mostly lazily did the …
Assemble-Them-All (MIT); production-as-required
Tempororay not ready blog post: some refs: https://github.com/yunshengtian/Assemble-Them-All?tab=readme-ov-file https://assembly.csail.mit.edu/ Idea is to ask for a functional device, and that thing automatically manufactures it, …
photo log
Day 6-7 (day and night) mechanical assembly bare minimum after Day 4-5, it was After day 4 After day 3 after day 2 After day 1 Next steps: plan is to use bare minimum CAN interface with each stepper, let see how simple I can get …
cycloid gears, NEMA magnets, tool list
Got arctos kit, parts are printed, see assembly guide , I started with an older version which was first to appear in the link, but soon it was corrected to proper version that I have printed : …
"abra-kadabra machine"; bioprinters links
When on Mars, the existing ecosystem of manufacturing on Earth will be too expensive to afford. For now, 3d printers on earth mostly are good for making small plastic toys or small-time use gadgets, or mini things. Many different …
23 DALL-E component images
Most weeks, for past 5 years, we have a board game community in which I play board games. They are quite different from experience from computer gaming, where in dense city one sits at home and plays with other people or the …
29 images
Recently, on sale, I bought Bambu Lab A1 Combo printer, and by judging the quality, I also got another A1 mini printer. Just to help me for my project on Arctos ARM robotic kit that I have ordered. Here you can see printers …
chip+circuit+CAD+virtual test+deploy
Computer chip model, (CPU+GPU+TPU+Analog+LPU?anything matter can compute)+vicinity circuit model according to application+ design the machinery and surroundings with CAD+ system test under virtual world + system deploy in real …
"Generic MAKE-ANYTHING"; IN-HOUSE vs ON-PLANET; toolchain (EagleCAD, Fusion360, 3D/CNC/laser…); GPT 10-section lab list; his own wish-list (multiaxis CNC, PCB printer, electroplating, metal print, electron microscope, ovens, semiconductor room, cell engineering, cryo, graphene…); 19 images; "million years later… buildings as planets"
Imagine a future setting (or current reality, or past), where the in-house production has become the norm. Boasting of a “Generic MAKE-ANYTHING” concept. We reside on a planet with given resources. We transform these resources …
3D printer limits; coconut bottle grown vs made
Feeling of having the 3d printer is good, but it can only print limited materials, mostly plastics and polymers ( for those available on consumer level), while our world is surrounded by all kinds of elements, materials, …
scan with lidar/camera while printing; closed-loop "negative sculptor"
3D printers nowadays use Gcode which is generated by slicer and is fixed. A more improved version can scan the object using lidar or cameras, determine existing hardware structure and then can start printing based on it, as …
exists vs not-yet-conceived lists; "I don't know what I don't know"; "Written by AI and me"
Utopian technologies that currently exist include advanced clean energy solutions, universal basic needs automation, medical innovations, sustainable environmental tech, post-scarcity economy tools, global connectivity and …
see beyond the desired; "one must be their own leader"
Here is the thing: one must see beyond that desired to effectively make whats desired. One needs to know the fundamental to effectively go anywhere near fundamental and bring out that as real. And, the other which can only see …
vertically dense chips need fluid cooling → flesh-like
What would happen if the semiconductor chips would be as dense vertically as they are horizontally, they would pack a tonne of computation (its about the feeling you get when you read it), but they would consume also much power, …
nobody sees how things are made; roadblock for new developers; "If you never see it, how will you ever know."
Many things in society are not visible, or people never see it or question about it or think about it, everything is in the shop, or online stores which people can buy, but most don’t think how does it come to be, how it was …
list of 1930s Chevrolet educational films (title by ChatGPT4)
Basics of automobile background, good for learning to drive. Easy Does It – Chevrolet Gear Shift (1940) – YouTube Spring Harmony (1935) – YouTube What’s Under Your Hood? (1973) – YouTube Vacuum Control (1938) Chevrolet Gearshift …
"need my own AI bot to wander with… where is my portable lab? scanner that tells me what the plant is doing in realtime #gadgets"
I think about what can I do today, but I’m quite dissatisfied by the progress of an human. Going to restaurants and clubs and shops is boring, perhaps do some measurements and tinkering of nature, but I do not have any …