James

@redbullfuturist Peak

@fabworks_guy Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery🫠

"Claude, copy fabworks dot com and make no mistakes"

Definitely one of the worst feelings seeing someone struggling to work on your designs because of poor tool clearance. Can’t imagine designing without doing both of those things. I think you can’t be a great designer without having empathy for the people who assemble, install, and maintain your designs throughout their service life.

Make no mistake, I'm all for custom, purpose built tools when a design requires it. But if you are producing products that will be worked on by folks with a normal (or limited) set of tools, you need to be aware of that. Best ways to guard against building something impossible to assemble or work on is: 1) attempt to assemble it virtually, thinking through how you'd do it each step & researching what tools are commonly available & 2) actually build the thing yourself Amazing how many times I rethink hardware choices when I need to get a tiny screw way down in a hole or can only clock a wrench 15 degrees because of clearance issues.

@fabworks_guy Woah

Counterbores coming very soon! Automatically detected and priced from your step file no need to configure using the UI. Any depth is supported for a standardized offering of pilot/OD combos

@CalebChamberla6 Funny that it sounds a lot like the renting vs buying debate for home ownership lol, thanks for the insight

@jamesbambridge_ Long term, return on investment IS better if you buy vs lease, but you can't ignore the opportunity cost of not iv eating those dollars in growth of your business.

Counterpoint. You can spend $10 million to build a 100,000 sqft warehouse that produces no value on its own. Or with the same capital/leverage you can lease a warehouse and buy ten lasers that each produce $3000 / hr in revenue. What would you choose?

@reticente07 Great job, always feels super rewarding learning new tools and methods to make things.

Took a 3-hour metalworking workshop this week. Made this bottle opener. I know this is too basic, imperfect and people here build far more complex parts, but it felt good to build something myself. Used equipment like horizontal, vertical bandsaw, cold saw, drill press, grinder

@connorkapoor @emm0sh I see your dump bin and raise you

@emm0sh You’re not an engineer until you have this

everyone thinks they’re a mechanical engineer because everyone knows what a bolt is

Good view

Seeing everything come together makes the late nights worth it

@23_ Yep

@jamesbambridge_ Are those autonomous?

I’m assembling a team

@Jack1000k We were one of them :)

@jamesbambridge_ If your goal is autonomous pallet jacks, Modex tradeshow had 42 brands of them this week. It’s super red ocean right now.

@connorkapoor With the state of most pallets, a battering ram is what you need👀

@jamesbambridge_ I like what I’m seeing, I hope you have a good test program lined up because that’s basically a battering ram lol

@Chrismholt @Spacecolonize 100%

@jamesbambridge_ @Spacecolonize Love getting my designs in the mail. Way better than Christmas if you designed it.

Everyday feels like Christmas when you’re designing and building hardware

@zanehengsperger I like these guys from fastcap. Tape is auto locking, built in pencil sharpener and writing surface can be handy too

super important question best tape measure on the market?