Tom Moore

If this is your first time seeing the molecular sorter I hope it instills the same feelings it did, and still does, me.

@fusion_remy Thank you! There is a movie of it if you would like to see how it operates. x.com/mooreth42/stat…

@mooreth42 Fascinante représentation ! Ce type de structure rappelle comment la simulation numérique s'inspire de l'ingénierie mécanique traditionnelle.

My apologies to #SAMSON for rarely taking advantage of the beautiful rendering capabilities included for simulation movies.

@StephaneRedon Thanks! I'll make a poster of the acetylene sorter people can download and print out if they want.

I published a document at samson-connect.net/documents/41c6… (for the upcoming 2026 R1 though). It's very easy: you add a light, and you apply a color to a van der Waals model, which then lets you choose the different material parameters (transparency, specularity, etc.) in the inspector (potentially from a preset: glass, plastic, etc.). And you turn Trace on in the visualization menu.

Random views of diamondoid parts by @mooreth42

Stunning!

@bioinfojoe @MarwaEldiwiny beautiful device

@MarwaEldiwiny @mooreth42 👀

Rosheim Joint.... a linkage-heavy wrist / spherical joint with a ±90° range of motion, developed in 1989. A brilliant invention by Mark Rosheim, often overlooked, Shoutout to David Kindlon at Apple for bringing this to my attention, must-know for anyone into robotics design!

@freeeralc Joinery has been a big inspiration. I'm building a large library of parts that all work together. These plates will be used to design a vacuum hull for a self-replicating robot.

@mooreth42 Cool design! Reminds me of furniture joinery. What projects you using this for? 🔧

Finished early. New Interlocking Plate-2! Let's you connect diamond plates together in the direction of the hexagons' sides.

@DrEngineChannel Could you build a LEGO system capable of assembling a copy of itself?

Extreme Overdrive 1:625 — How Fast Can It Go? ⚙️ #legotechnic #engineering #satisfying #legotiktoker #lego #mechanic #stem #machinery #howitworks #machinerytools

@IsZomg Missed your chance. x.com/mooreth42/stat…

@mooreth42 i should call her

@mechadense I'm confident vdw won't be enough for the use case I have in mind. Also think designing handles or jigs to undo the clips I've designed so far is doable.

@mooreth42 ★ (1/2) I wonder if it's not overenginnered. Seems easy to avoid high stresses acting on vacuum boxes. Particularly mechanosynthesis' single bond breaking forces distribute over many atoms & structures not necessarily part of the vacuum box. You know I 👀 @ using VdW forces.

New Interlocking Plate-1! Let's you connect diamond plates together in the direction of the hexagons' vertices. (side direction coming tomorrow)

@mechadense Yeah, breaking down parts to resuse them instead of making new ones is a great thing. I'll get to it. :)

@mooreth42 If it's just used crystolecule recompsition or off-site pre-produced shipped-in crystolecules (and microcomponents) then the handbreak of upstream mechanosynthesis is released & ultra high speed production 🏎️ gets unlocked. Microcomponent recomposers: apm.bplaced.net/w/index.php?ti… …

@mechadense My motivation right now is to design a vacuum tight box that needs to withstand large stresses out of parts much smaller than the whole box.

@mooreth42 Just like rocket engines don't melt themselves as most of the heat ends up in the exhaust, crystolecule assemly on a nanofactory chip dumps heat into product. Though practical speed systems can & will usually stay OOMs away from pushing the limits for efficiency & other reasons.

@mechadense That's true, one clip per part.

@mooreth42 One ⚠️ insight regarding energy irreversible thermally dissipative assembly clips is that (while still avoidably energy wasteful) it is only one clip action per at least the volume of the clip in an assembly process. It's not each clip operated at 100s of kHz. And …

@ruben_kostard I use LAMMPS to simulate these. It uses a data file for the structure, the AIREBO forcefield, and input file to tell LAMMPS what to do. You can see an example of these at the part library. github.com/mooreth/Diamon…

@mooreth42 What is the input in your experiments? Does it take a STEP file for example?

@_Stocko_ It'd be hilarious to build the most over-engineered chip clip ever. Legend status if it needs a phone app to work.

i broke the chip bag clip these cost less than $1 to buy but i will CAD it and 3D print it it will be mine

@BagOfNeurons Got it, looking now...

@mooreth42 Hey Tom, I've sent you a DM regarding something I'm working on. Check it out :)

Stress testing Diamondback clip-in gears at 4 GHz (very stressful!) and they are a go.

@seanf1orez @reindsummit should see this

Industrial/manufacturing/critical materials version of monitor-the-situation I built this weekend. Still needs some work but its pretty cool. strategic-intel-flax.vercel.app

@ScottSpadea I see it.

@mooreth42 Clockwork Crochet.