Jordan Ford

the fact that ryan knows about "never forget he's an absolutely liability at the corner" is sending me so bad

New Dan Gelbart interview! youtu.be/UTgrWmOk4q8?si…

@_baldtires @nhfoley @Mammoth My buddy printed a battleship gun barrel in giant segments on the orangestorm giga. He seems pretty happy with it.

@nhfoley @Mammoth PLA? can u share any images

are there any large format 3d printers (~800mm cube) that are relatively inexpensive (around $20k) and actually good

@philthatremains Congratulations, Phil!

this is some pretty great news.

@jessfraz My company provides type 2 fun as a service 😁

Just going to be honest here, if you join our company it’s exclusively type 2 fun we have here. Hard problems it’s a slog 😂

@andrewmccalip Sometimes at night I just drink coffee until the next morning...

Sometimes at night I just think about getting to drink coffee the next morning

@pmbarrett314 Happy National Cherry Popsicle Day!

@mattressguy_ Question for the expert: does it hurt the mattress if I use a ratchet strap to roll it into a taco shape so I can cram it into my car?

Duck dodge dip and dive Do anything to get away from someone who's mattress is taking off like this also take peace in knowing your mattress guy would never have you looking like this

@ChShersh It’s just an advance form of aggressive garbage collection!

I’ve been programming for 16 years. It still annoys me that restarting a service weekly is an industry-wide accepted solution to fixing memory leaks.

@robin7331 I think you might’ve accidentally bought a spool of WETG

The difference between dry and wet PETG.

@pmbarrett314 I am vexed. This makes me ill. Where will I study now? I’m a vexed-ill-ologist.

@ptrschmdtnlsn @boxcardavid I think a lot of ITAR CNC machines have sensitive tilt detectors that will lockout the machine if you try to move it. A company rep has to come out to your site to reset it.

@boxcardavid You joke, but maybe it'll actually be nice to be able to be like "Huh, board #14 stopped working 16 seconds after we detected an unusually large acceleration".

I’ve never regretted putting an IMU in a thing

@elonmusk @xai Having been both, I’d take engineer over researcher any day 😁

This false nomenclature of “researcher” and “engineer”, which is a thinly-masked way of describing a two-tier engineering system, is being deleted from @xAI today. There are only engineers. Researcher is a relic term from academia.

@TweetsOfSumit It's the fraction of the value you've created that you've also managed to capture.

"Generally, the money in your bank account is how much value you've added to society" Very interesting sentence. I like it. Yet, it's something most Europeans will never accept.

@_baldtires How did the 3d prints fare? How many parts do you think they would last before you have to replace them?

lol

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@zanehengsperger machine shops make metal go round

metal makes machine shops go round

@_baldtires @protocybernetic I think he’s asking what the formed sheet metal parts will be used for. The output from this die

@protocybernetic they are both PLA plastic

mcmaster parts coming tomorrow according to UPS, so hopefully i can share some results soon. blank holder and male die parts finished this morning. both are over 500g. printed the blank holder face down on a smoothed plate to get the best ironing effect possible

@observie This is a common architectural choice in robot birds: it’s called TwoCAN

Why two CAN networks? I get this question a lot, so let me defend the decision and see if you agree. A single CAN network can easily support all 12 motors. To confirm, I profiled a single CAN network running 12 motors, and the results show it can be easily supported: x.com/observie/statu… x.com/observie/statu… But: 1. Assigning a separate CAN network to two legs minimizes branching and parallel stubs, which can introduce signal reflections, noise, or impedance mismatches in a single bus setup. 2. Less branching, wiring, and parallel stubs mean cleaner signals and better PHY, potentially fewer errors/retries. 3. The Jetson has two CAN controllers, so introducing a second network is relatively cheap. 4. Splitting messaging load across two buses reduces contention and leaves headroom for expansions, like sensors and actuators (arms? head?). 5. Software cost is minimal.

Can’t wait to attach the stereo camera and test out the angle adjustment mechanism. These toothed wheels turned out better than I expected.

It survived!

M3 tap in the drill: I like to live dangerously.