@ELoosbrock Thanks! Snippet:
- a single-crystal NMC532/AG cell studied in this research retained 80% of its capacity, positive electrode crystal structure, and morphology … after 6.8 years of continuous charge-discharge cycling
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Quick reference to the people and companies building the future of American industry and prosperity.
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Total insanity from the recent Dahn lab paper. Batteries that last 27,000 cycles, equivalent to 7.5M miles!!!
Enough to go to the moon and back 15 times.
In the future, literally everything in your car will break before your battery, including you. You'll pass down your battery to your kids and grandkids and great grandkids.
And most surprisingly, these are NMC cells!
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@KCG3D Not nearly 'every'. My bet: 90-9-1 'rule' (empirical observation). 90% of people will use tools created by others, 9% may tweak a few things, 1% will create.
That's ok. Just good to have realistic expectations -- and not push people in ways that will backfire.
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Claude Code should be being used by every freaking engineer, operator, supervisor, manager inside a manufacturing plant!
I know there are still gaps in the manufacturing world regarding AI, but it is one of my missions to change that.
I’ll build a free “Claude Code for Manufacturing Plants” in the next couple of weeks.
Todd Saunders@toddsaunders
I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this..... But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software. I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it. He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code. Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time. His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages. His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything. My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five." Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder. I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.
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@DustinWalper Yes, MIT tends to think big (as it should). And very entrepreneurial.
Maritime doesn't get much attention but it's long been a strength of MIT.
MIT is one of 34 'sea grant' institutions. seagrant.noaa.gov
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Just participated in an MIT roundtable on shipbuilding technology.
A graybeard mechanical engineering prof told me we weren't thinking big enough.
Annnnd that's why I love MIT 😂 Engineering schools that push for greatness tend to produce it.
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1. nothing wrong with money, as long as it's treated as a means not an end. Profit = sustainable business = best foundation for building a positive future
2. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
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One evening I forgot to put the cover back on our granite plate in QC lab & the next morning I saw it was uncovered & had 1 or 2 specs of dust on the surface. I gathered everyone for an employee meeting and vowed never to make such an egregious mistake again. Lead by example!
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@CalebChamberla6 Good idea. Shouldn't be the only way to design, but should exist.
CC @istvan_csanady @jessfraz @zachdive @Do_owne @brad_rothenberg @NominalAviator @BackflipAI @FreeCADNews @emm0sh
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Idea - CAD that only supports operations you can perform with a tool. Want to do an extrude cut? Pick an end mill first.
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There's an engineer on YouTube building his own room-scale laundry-picking UFO catcher robot out of QR codes and string, it's one of the most compelling robotics demos I've seen in a while.
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@connorkapoor @_baldtires Request for startup!
Also have to separate styrofoam, etc.
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I’m a machine that turns VC dollars into aluminum extrusion frames
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@noah_schochet For those who happen not to know the reference: "The only difference between men and boys is the price [size] of their toys".
Malcolm S. Forbes
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@jakeknudsen5 > The road to re-industrialization will be long and windy. We will make many mistakes along the way
+1. It's important to normalize this understanding.
In pictorial form:
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We made our biggest mistake at Foundation this week. I won't get into the specifics but the tldr is we quoted parts that were out of our wheelhouse. They were higher tolerance than any part we've done before. In our eagerness to take on more types of work we cost a customer valuable time in their development cycle.
Full refund was issued. But we can't refund time. That is what pains us most and it's entirely ours to own.
We have narrowed the scope of the types of parts we can accept as a result of this. Working on growing the team to handle more demand as well.
Why would I post this? How could I not? No way in hell will we just post the wins.
The road to re-industrialization will be long and windy. We will make many mistakes along the way but it's important to acknowledge and fix it to the best of our ability when we do mess up.
One thing is for sure. The team will wake up tomorrow and work our asses of to get better.
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@FutureJurvetson @PeterDiamandis @elonmusk > Apollo consumed 60% of all ICs globally at its peak in the 60’s
Cool stat! Thanks for sharing.
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@PeterDiamandis @elonmusk And for reference, here is perhaps the only complete Lunar Module guidance computer. It was an early bet on the integrated circuit, and Apollo consumed 60% of all ICs globally at its peak in the 60’s. A heroic artifact in our collection:
Steve Jurvetson@FutureJurvetson
Ok, back to our regular programming. Recovering the software from the hand-woven rope memory in my Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), removed from the Lunar Module in the Smithsonian and reused for the first digital fly-by-wire airplane flights: youtube.com/watch?v=k2Ji-5… NASA never saved a copy of the software from the Apollo program. But the magnetic core memories in the computers retain their program. So, Mike Stewart designed and built a rope reader, and he is using it to read out the programs in the computers that have been saved. Mike doing more Apollo software recovery than all the museums in the world combined. My TLDR; American won the space race because of superiority in compute from an early bet on the integrated circuit (IC). The Lunar Module guidance computer was the first IC-based computer, and the first contracting award of the Apollo program in 1962. By 1963, Apollo consumed 60% of global IC production. It was essential for real-time trajectory calculations for rendezvous, an essential capability for our lunar mission plans. My AGC was so rare and valuable that it was reused in the first digital fly-by-wire (DFBW) test flights, as is common on all jets today (instead of a physical connection with cables and pullies, the pilot’s flight controls go to the computer, and the computer controls everything that makes the plane fly). Rather than build a new computer for this, they reused the Lunar Module computer as well as 60% of the Apollo 14 flight software! My AGC and related components were removed from LM-2 and put into a custom pallet with liquid nitrogen cooling plates so that it could be lowered into an F-8 supersonic jet behind the cockpit, like R2-D2 in an X-wing fighter. NASA’s pioneering DFBW program was sponsored by Neil Armstrong in 1972. It worked beautifully, giving better control, efficiency and reliability to flight. After this demo, the space shuttle and eventually all jets shifted to this control method. NASA concluded that the DFBW was “one of the most significant and most successful NASA aeronautical programs since the inception of the agency.” The analysis of my AGC and it memories revealed that it has components that flew to the moon and back on Apollo 12, and it contains Aurora 88, the first Lunar Module rope ever produced, representing the complete LM AGC test set. Thank you Mike, Marc and Ken for your incredible techno-archaeology and revivalism! More info in my AGC Photos: flic.kr/p/2htaTmr My post on its use for DFBW: flic.kr/p/2md4SsP
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The computational power in your iPhone is >100 million times more powerful than the computers that landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. And yet, most people use it primarily to argue with strangers on the internet.
The future's already here—we just need to deploy it better.
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@rcanedesignwrks I agree that the post is light on details. But I think the widespread positive reaction by solid 'reinustrialization' folks shows that it does matter. (Not a huge deal; but good to have visible players jump on the bandwagon.)
Time will tell.
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@BuildingDeeply If they make a physical product I should be able to understand that clearly from the comms. This kind of manifesto posting is starting to become an overly used trope.
To your second, I don't see the tide rising from this in a meaningful way but I hope to be proven wrong.
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For a minute there I was beginning to feel like quite the lone voice.
Having read everything about "atoms" I still don't really know what the heck they do? There are a lot of people in my feed jumping up and down like Neo just showed back up in the Matrix but I don't get the hype...
What problem do they solve? What product do they make?
Hunter 🌆@rhunterh
McKinsey-ass framework
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@build_boost I'd never heard that description of engineering.
Would have to ponder it a bit, but in any case: great idea for a handle.
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Why "Build/Boost"? What does it mean?
One of the best classes I took in university was a team-taught physiology course by a couple of true Biomedical Engineering OGs at Purdue in their 70s. One of them explained 'what do engineers do?' very clearly:
"They build things, or they boost things!"
All engineering activity falls into one of both categories. Everything else is administrative. Building is fairly obvious. Boosting as in 'boosting performance or quality.' But also more loosely, building systems and teams, boosting productivity, etc. Human systems apply here too.
What % of your day as an engineer is building or boosting? What % is admin?
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@jcm10x1 Worth trying govolition.com by @NickPinkston
Has some nice features, though still somewhat early days.
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The McMaster Carr website has so many products. I know I need a specific DIN rail, but it takes forever to search every site (McMaster, Grainger, Amazon, etc) to see if they have the item and the other info needed. It would be nice if there was a plugin (MCP, API, or CLI) that ChatGPT or Gemini could tap into. The tech focused companies that have these integrations don't need them as badly because their websites already have a good UX.
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@jmoonio Looks great. Followed. (If you want to connect with the reindustrialization crowd, see who I follow.)
Wen emma_report account? (Or some better name.)
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For the past 12 months, I’ve been heads down building a robot.
Introducing Emma – an autonomous robot that scans farms, detects diseases, and measures yield.
Currently deployed in 14 vineyards and orchards in CA and NY.
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Agreed. But:
- hard for buyer to find machine shop that does a particular thing (e.g. laser cut that's longer than supported by 'the usual suspects' well known on X), and at a reasonable price
- back to OP: hard for new machine shop to find jobs
Hence @andrewkornuta & @NoramarkInc ... though I only know via X and haven't used
Also partsmadefast.com by @mattfreed
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@BuildingDeeply @hunterlanier The real solution is building a reputation with a machine shop directly. You will have more control and better service and if you don't you find another shop that gives you what you want.
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Even 50% is nuts. Bad for 'seller' (machine shops) and 'buyer' (my side of the fence).
Seems like a huge invitation for competition. But hard to build scale / name recognition.
I agree with skeptics that percentage-based marketplace may not be ideal -- but the fact that Xometry exists at all, much less with those margins, means the problem isn't currently solved elsewhere.
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Yep. A had a xometry representative bump it up to 50% and after the first couple the rep got in trouble. They allow you to quote them, but any reasonable quote gets denied. I have seen a job sit on the job board for a week that I quoted at 50% and they kept trying to give it back to me at 30%. Mind you, I need to buy materials and cutters most jobs the price doesn't even cover the material if you just need a small piece from mc-master. They do have great support if you get stuck though.
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@mkadnk @hunterlanier > Xometry pays you 30% of what they charge the customer.
Seriously?
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I was averaging $7 an hour when I wasn't losing money due to needing to buy special cutters and holders. The veterans said that if you get get at least 10 orders out with no latest or quality issues then you can go into the preferred network, but i ran out of money before the 10 orders so I went back to work. After 2 years I was finally able to get some organic customers and now I am not losing money. Xometry pays you 30% of what they charge the customer.
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