enginoor

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by enginoor 2y ago
There are larger industrial robots that use secondary encoders to improve "out of the box" accuracy for more demanding tasks. The secondary joint feedback is paired with a kinematic model of the robot structure/mechanics to
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by enginoor 2y ago
The Voyager team did win the 1980 Collier Trophy which is the nobel prize of aerospace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier_Trophy
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by enginoor 3y ago
Shane Wighton's story of getting hired at Formlabs is interesting. He wanted to work for the company and didn't have a way in. He built a better version of their slicing software over a long weekend and sent it to the Formlabs te
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by enginoor 3y ago
I would recommend Citizenfour if you haven't seen it. It's a documentary where you essentially see Snowden leak the documents from his Hong Kong hotel room. It's amazing the footage exists. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by enginoor 4y ago
Any suggestions for a mechanical engineer who has some coding aptitude and wants to switch careers? I'm self taught and have mostly worked on hobby projects. I have some professional controls experience programming automated machinery
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by enginoor 5y ago
As a long time CAD user I was surprised to learn that a CAD kernel exists as a concept and that the same kernel is licensed and used in competing CAD packages. Solidworks, Siemens NX, and OnShape all use the Parasolid kernel. Inventor and F
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by enginoor 5y ago
Zeloof's father runs a sheet metal fabrication shop that makes components for other manufacturers. They do excellent work, I've worked with them in the past. I'm guessing his father knows engineers in all sorts of industrie
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by enginoor 5y ago
The common term is "pneumatics" and the components are prevalent in all automation and manufacturing. The air required is typically compressed on site. Pneumatic actuators are relatively inexpensive, have a binary state that is e
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by enginoor 6y ago
If anyone is interested in factory automation I'm working on a site to catalog different processes. A good design can often be recycled into a similar machine. https://automate.engineer/ I'm mostly building it fo
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by enginoor 6y ago
I'm trying to design a vibratory bowl feeder that I can 3D print. Designing features to align or reject parts is a bit of a dark art and it's requiring a few more iterations than expected. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by enginoor 6y ago
I feel that GOES satellite imagery is a hidden gem, I'm surprised more people aren't working with it. The imagery is available at https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/ but is better explored at https:/
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by enginoor 6y ago
ProtoLabs is already successful in this space. I wonder what competitive advantage CloudNC has?
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by enginoor 7y ago
Construction is highly automated. Wing skins are created with automated fiber placement (AFP) https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/massi... The wings are assembled horizontally similar to the to