Stephen (Perandex)

@JohnDCook Awesome!

JSC SVMF

Depth cameras have a hard time achieving micron-level accuracy. 3D scanners do, but are anywhere from $1k to $50k. We're moving towards doing both for $200.

The intern project for today was checking his enclosure design over the real thing

@JamesLight91577 Awesome

@Perandex this is the exact method for building a telescope that records solar flares. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:L…

Optics/photonics are underappreciated in engineering. Important link between the physical world and software. Also great fun: somehow intangible yet hands-on. Take a dichroic mirror. Splits mid-visible light to a camera, lets a blue-green and higher-NIR weld laser pass through

Where are my optics and photonics people at? @jwt0625

Welding from my phone (in United seat 22A)

Training ground for electromagnetic code generator

Pittsburgh sports are very on-brand 🦾

@cosmicjake37 That’s pretty cool! We should chat

@Perandex Same republic. I work with propulsion hardware that depends on titanium and Inconel welds. What systems interest you?

When you’re a welder but your heart is 100% aerospace republic

@ethanmclark1 We're building them in the US. Let's chat sometime.

I'm a humanoid shill but even I can admit it's bad that they've sucked all the air out of robotics conversations. Industrial robotics are the backbone of any reindustrialization yet nobody is talking about them Meanwhile every industrial robotics company is foreign. ABB is Swiss. Fanuc and Yaskawa are Japanese. KUKA is German but Chinese owned. Universal Robots is Danish We invented this category. The first industrial robot was American. We licensed it to Kawasaki in 1969 and Japan owned the market within 15 years. Same pattern we've repeated with solar, drones, EVs, and 3D printers The 0 to 1 is always American yet the 1 to 100 always ends up somewhere else. We can't keep inventing things for other countries to capitalize on

@netcapgirl @dirtman @JulianFried @timcash Standing on the shoulders of giants

@Perandex @dirtman @JulianFried @timcash hell yeah

Turned up early this morning and found 2 new TVs. I see building dashboards that give executives actionable insights into critical business functions in my near future.

Everyday living in a world where Onion headlines are becoming more true. All our critical infrastructure needs perfect welds.

@TAGG_ART @deadbeatregular Lol me too

@deadbeatregular See I interpreted this as the engineer giving a presentation while specifically wearing ONLY the shoulders of a space suit.

When I was working at the South Pole, there was a former NASA engineer there who gave a presentation on his work with just the shoulder joints in a space suit.

When the only lasers you’ve got are class 3B but you haven’t got any blue safety goggles, so you quarantine the laser in its own room and trigger it from the other side of the shop.

POV: you’re an IPG Lightweld and me and @masch_services are running some weld tests

@Elliott_EcomMfg @masch_services @dirtman @JulianFried Yes, but laser welders and cutter beams are in the NIR spectrum so you don’t actually see the laser itself, only the fiery aftermath.

@masch_services @Perandex @dirtman @JulianFried are those laser goggles, I thought they are supposed to be green to block the correct wavelength in laser welding?

reindustrializing with @Perandex @dirtman and @JulianFried if you once the fence about laser welding just imagine how cool you’ll look in the glasses! 😅

Yes, I like the sound of this.

@dirtman @masch_services youtu.be/Ru4aqzjvplw?si…

The bois @Perandex and @masch_services are cooking rn