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101-year-old World War II veteran Don Graves — the last surviving flamethrower operator from his battalion, which fought on Iwo Jima — sings “God Bless America” at the National Memorial Day Parade.

@patrickbetdavid 🎯

Call me old school, but I want manual transmissions to make a comeback. Anyone who can drive a stick shift uphill without stalling is made for greatness.

@Chrismholt SICK!!!

Happiness is picking up your 160,000 rpm 5-axis kern cnc from the auction house.

"All of us owe a debt. That we owe a debt to the people that went overseas and gave their lives, that the United States might be prosperous, and peaceful, and free." - @VP JD Vance

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@SkinnyfatTony Kung Fu Gripper!

Man. Changing my algo from political slop to engineering and robotics has been so refreshing, so many new awesome people to follow and who are following me as well. I am going to keep posting content from current and past work from my career in robotics, my path moving forward, and stuff in between. Glad to be out of that rut of depressing x feeds. It didn't take long to change it up either. Here's a pretty cool robot EOAT I did for a customer who manufactured Amazon infrastructure hardware. I also did about 25 robotic welding cells for them.

@SkinnyfatTony 💪🇺🇸

My robotics company of 20 years closed down at the end of 2024. It was a very hard time for me. I had to sell off most of my equipment, my 30k sq ft building, and dismantle by myself what I built piece by piece. I lost my identity, and went through some very dark times. I am still struggling, but I am coming out the other side. I kept my small 8k sq ft building, my Okuma CNC Machine, added a Haas TL2, still have my Omax 55100 waterjet, still making a patented product that I developed at my old company. Tesla is one of my customers. This is something I am doing on the side, I am now also the General Manager of Robotics at an integrator as a full-time job. I kept my head up the best I could, I kept moving forward. That was the most important part - keep moving forward, no matter what, even if it doesn't make any sense as to why. Here's a pic of my current setup...I call it "The Garage of Broken Dreams" lol. I am making the best of it and moving forward.

@amer_icon @BishopAerospace What do you like for acetal?

@BishopAerospace I'd love to be doing more aluminum, I have a virtually unlimited supply of tooling. When the tools won't cut acetal anymore, they're just right for blasting through aluminum. I'm using Helical more and more for their uncoated offerings, the coated ones are probably great!

These coatings, like My Little Pony for machinists. I might have giggled a little when I opened them up. Sue me.

@NileMcmillion Sweet! 🇺🇸

Minor side note from the promo video, I used my custom Blender plugin to control the 6 axis arm that was holding the camera. You can try it out here! github.com/flybyaircraft/…

@davidliuxyz Considering machine costs, etc. , is 3 hr on a mini mill vs. 3 min on a Hermle really a win ? How do you decide, the line depends on your machine? I'm not hating I just think about what it cost and it feels like shooting squirrels with a .50 cal.

i have machined a part with a 3-axis cnc in 3 hours i could have machined it with a 5-axis cnc in 3 minutes buy a 5-axis cnc

The best factory work I’ve seen is a Prada commercial??

@EV_Trapper You can probably chamfer each end by hand with OD chamfer tool / drill 100X faster. .

So I have more to bend, but my jig was failing & so I had to rework it. A new one is enroute, but I have a winning solution now to bend these steel sling swivels! Once these are sized to length before forming, I sit in a chair, turn on a movie, grab my dewalt drill, the rod flats & a FINE BASTARD! After that I put together the Irish Lathe, hit play & start putting a chamfer on each end that is roughly 45 degrees. I could do it in the lathe & make it super accurate, but it takes a long time for the headstock to slow down & stop, unchuck, rechuck, restart, touch etc! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@drinkonsaturday That isn't a parking brake he pulled right before, that's the Jetovator and he was very polite with it. IYKYK

Boating etiquette is a real thing—especially on that first calm morning run when the lake’s glass and everyone’s chasing that perfect sunrise pull. You don’t randomly sweep in close and hose someone down. Not when they’re running a ’70s-era flat-bottom with a big-block, open headers, and throaty pipes that sound like thunder rolling across the water. That old skimmer can throw a rooster tail right back at you like revenge from the gods. Get too cute and those straight pipes will blow your ear drums out while the spray you sent comes back twice as hard. Every driver eventually gets their watery just desserts. Respect the line, respect the wake, and keep the throttle smooth. Out here, karma floats—and it’s got a wicked rooster tail. Don't feel bad at all. It was more than deserved.

@harveyhodd 🇺🇸

Rivan Production Base 1 incoming

@ninjaneeer Took me a few years to figure this one out.

Wisdom is knowing you can shave 30% off the cycle time, but not doing it because a stable process you do not have to babysit is much more valuable.

@zachkowalik 🇺🇸

We did our first $1M in revenue on a homemade thermoformer built for under $10k

@j0ker937 🇺🇸

While I know every case is different, having an employee-employer relationship like this one is awesome.

The momentum doesn't stop. Orlando. May 29-30. 🔥 Tickets available now: dub.sh/FDORL26 #FormulaD #FormulaDRIFT #FDORL

Youngest FD battle ever? 14-year-old Camren Sorensen vs 15-year-old Braden Lons. 🤯 Presented by @Link_ECU #FormulaD #FormulaDRIFT #FDATL