Kerry Bonin

You ever read a book and you’re like “holy shit this is my favorite book” and then they make a movie of it and you’re like “I hope they don’t screw it up” and then the movie comes out and you’re like “holy shit they didn’t screw it up and this is one of my favorite movies ever”?

Loving Grok - I’ve done many plumbing repairs in my past, this was my first design from scratch. Needed to install outside water and inside shop sink along with extensible water/drain to lab in shop. Grok helped me with all the code issues I’ve never dealt with before.

@Gymvibe_ recipe

This guy is insanely talented

More language fun!

@j00ny369T I had a noise like that once, driving the mechanic around with me I could reproduce it but had no idea what it was. Walking through all the mechanical systems in my head I realized it was missing roller bearings in a driveshaft u-joint, we stopped and yep!

That’s one way to find what’s broken exactly. Pretry sure there is another way though.

Layers upon layers upon layers......

@DudespostingWs Pulse-jets are fun but they are SO loud... :)

Bro made a jet engine so loud he started discombobulating

@peterrhague Also doesn't help that most companies making the devices were only interested in walled gardens. And mismanaging them too boot, Meta killing Supernatural team, one of the most successful VR apps? SMH... Need open hardware and APIs but that's taboo in todays world...

One technology that I really wanted to take off, but hasn't, is VR. I mean, I was a teenager the first time around, when the devices used CRTs and you needed a strong neck. Played the bird game in the arcades. The graphics on these devices was very naff. But modern devices (like the Meta Quest 3) which I own are fine. They are light weight, good image quality, decent passthrough for XR and responsive. But for some reason they don't seem to have evolved beyond toys. I've tried using them for serious 3D visualisation as part of my workflow, but its quite clunky to get them to do that. There seem a lot of barriers to development. What happened?

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@emh203 So as someone who starting in mylar+tape CAD, if we wanted a different perspective we didn't rotate the stack, we walked around the table as the stack was sitting on metal pegs attached to the table. And when I moved to software CAD we never had a request to rotate the screen...

I would wager that the woman in the photo could outwork/outperform at least 50% PCB designers on her drafting table. She wasn't fighting slow "cloud connections" and random crashes. Floorplanning and placement is insanely quick when you have an additional degree of freedorm. Some of you have been confused by the intent of the kicad_3d gal experiment and why it would be useful. Let me disabuse you of incorrect assumptions and ignorance of the history of PCB design. There was a time when PCB layout was done a large angled drafting boards with mylar/cut tape. One of the key features was you could physically rotate the artboard to work a different angle and perspective. This simple feature, a perspective change, could make all the difference when you puzzling over optimum placement. The reason you haven't observed it CAD software has mostly been technical limitations and their intertia, not because the concept isn't useful. Arguing against it is like arguing against the ability to rotate a piece of paper on your desk. If all you have ever used was Cadence, Altium, etc in a 2D window, then I can certainly understand why you might think the status quo is the only / optimum way. pcbwizards.com/handtape.htm

@quickmoviex @everymovieplug Most of us had to find our own way, especially after gifted programs were replaced with programs to make certain groups feel better about themselves. I'm thankful my teachers let me cut classes to hang out in university libraries or who knows where I'd have ended up...

@everymovieplug Bored because she’s already ten steps ahead. The system never knows what to do with minds like that

Mary is bored by the standard curriculum 😳

@TheCinesthetic This is one of my favorite movies, and simultaneously my best example of a movie whose achieved potential shrunk as the acts progressed. It was great but could have been magnificent!!!

Tomorrowland (2015) had one of the best sci-fi concepts of the decade and somehow turned it into a lecture. Brad Bird built a world that promised wonder and discovery, then buried it under speeches and plot noise.

@Billofrights9 Danish troops preparing Greenland for the US invasion...

@emm0sh @VishakhRanotra No offense taken - I wouldn't attempt to do production design for an assembly with thousands of components, but for advanced smaller projects in robotics, drones; hundreds of parts with additive or subtractive processes, its great! Would I rather have CATIA or NX? Sure! But $...

@KerryBonin @VishakhRanotra not dunking on you kerry, but i wouldn't recommend freecad to anyone doing engineering work

I’m sick of using Windows. Thinking of switching to MacOS now completely. Is anyone running a good 3D CAD software on MacOS for professional use (except Fusion360)? My use case is mostly for mechanical engineering and large, detailed assemblies.

@emm0sh This is glorious, where is the download button? :)

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