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I made a liquid metal ion thruster so you don't have to ☺️ (it was very difficult 😩)

Want to learn chip design and tape out a real chip at the end? @tinytapeout is running an online workshop next week! tinytapeout.com/online-worksho…

@waaaaaaaaa17698 For the actual hand layout, I've been working through these two textbooks. Psychogenic Technologies on YT has some good videos about the more analog side of layout (youtube.com/watch?v=Eu_crb…) For higher level RTL not sure I have a good source, just picking things up here and there

@BreakingTaps Any sources you’d recommend for someone wanting to do something similar ie chip design?

Starting to learn manual layout, don't love KLayout (still need to try Magic). Decided it would be fun to build an EDA tool while I learned 😊 Basic editing tools, a visual layer stack, real time DRC. Still implementing the full set of DRC, but it's a good learning exercise

@jwt0625 Just wait until it discovers how to purchase Elsevier articles 💀

nightmare material: claude automatically buying standards/requirements docs

@Explosions_Fire Much better than that Explosions&Fire guy

For the very first time, Extractions&Ire is attending OpenSauce! It’s all happening in San Francisco, very soon! July 17-19th. Hope to see you there!!

@yacineMTB SNNs are on my shortlist for ASIC projects 😅 Surprisingly tricky, it's super memory-constrained (synapse connectivity at moderate fanout eats gobs of memory, especially for 3factor STDP) so it's 90% just keeping buffers full since the actual computation is tiny.

there's an entire subculture of people out there that are hard baking spiking neural networks into FPGAs & ASICs

@deeempak Hah I love it! DRC clean?

Seems like out ghosty is going to make it asic now This has been my signature doodle since university because its easy to make and only one i can draw. #asic #opensource

@DanielSMatthews Yes indeed! Looks fun / super challenging 😅

@BreakingTaps Is this low level enough? docs.tenstorrent.com/tt-metal/lates…

Someone talk me down from getting a Tenstorrent Blackhole. Looks like such a fun architecture to program on! Seems super useful for a lot of stuff outside AI (simulations, building custom accelerators etc) and just messing around with many-core compute

@Mannananba Yah it's been a minute

@BreakingTaps You haven't posted videos in a while

New cartpole challenge for @yacineMTB cell.com/cell-reports/f…

@DanielSMatthews Was mostly hoping to program it myself at one of the intermediate/lower layers (rather than using off the shelf AI/ML stuff). But yeah, assuming that layer is usable could still be a gamble 🫤

@BreakingTaps Are you confident that you can get the software you need running on it without a lot of pain? That is the only gotcha I can think of.

@FelixCLC_ @somebingle 😬

@EricVallieres84 Just don't use them for high-vacuum systems! (the little rolled "burrs" can trap air and cause virtual leaks that will drive high vac people crazy)

Explained thread forming to someone who only seen cut taps today. We now have another formed thread truther on our side Pros of formed threads: No Chips Significantly stronger threads - essentially cold forged Huge tool life boost compared to cut taps Great thread surface finish Can run higher SFM

@will_whang glorious! 🤩

the silicon seal strip is killing me there, probably need slightly narrower and deeper guilding trench so it can kinda stuck in to.

Finally get the second clean room objective done: properly open up the MK4001MTD and have it still working as a display piece so you can see the movement in live.

@deeempak Black/white image from photoshop, and then a python script to convert to GDS. Script is from wafer.space (github.com/wafer-space/gf…), just loads up klayout and uses that to pixelize and merge into a metal layer

@BreakingTaps How did you Design that ?

Heck yeah 🤘

@kegrocket m0.04 😂

@BreakingTaps What size is this tap if it were to scale?

@Ben_Reinhardt Printed articles hit different. Nothing beats sitting at a table with journal paper, notepad and a coffee. Color e-ink readers are surprisingly decent for this too, can annotate etc I do try to reserve it for really interesting or dense papers that need full attention.

I am rejecting scarcity mindset by printing out all the papers I want to read.

KegRocket Episode 6 is now out. Go check out our Wet Dress Rehearsal/cryo tanking test! youtu.be/BvubuV_QQGo

@Daniel00Higgins @MichaelAlleged @recliner_pilott What? I can't speak to the bracket design itself, but it's a perfectly fine 5 axis part, toolpaths and fixturing. Two op prismatic is like the bread and butter of 5ax.

@MichaelAlleged @recliner_pilott Terrible design, terrible use of 5axis, terrible programming, terrible fixturing. Embarrassing tbh.

can some engineer at astranis please prevent their company from being embarrassing