I’m just abtin. building super cars for a post-autonomy world.
sf + toronto
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if i smile when i see you and i wish you nothing but that best that means you are my friend
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The most delightful tool for design and ideation costs $17 from ikea and it’s made for todlers.
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there is no shortage of intelligence, or "agency"
the real problem is that none of you care about anything.
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The way we model things in CAD over-rides human creativity. I think in terms of extrudes, revolves, and lofts rather than unconstrained forms.
Designing a part should be no different from sketching it on a napkin.
Next gen. mechanical design tools can't come soon enough.
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This is a night stand.
It’s the first in a line of home furnishings based on the Misumi HSF5 aluminum extrusion profile.
Built with the same techniques and materials as industrial machinery found in factories all over the world.
I think it’s beautiful and I hope you do too.
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Manufacturer texts at 23:32 saying there are DFM issues. They received redesigned parts 21 minutes later.
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Last night was incredible. Can't wait to talk to you all more.
Didn't get to meet everyone properly but we'll solve that next time :)
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Hardest thing I’ve ever done. Lots of fun though, getting close to done.
Our friend came by and shot these on medium format and developed in his bathroom. Gave it to me framed yesterday. One of the best gifts I’ve ever received.
Creating really is the process of self-discovery. Building Palindrome, I’ve unearthed and rebuilt so many assumptions and mental models
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I bring a kind of motorsports engineering background to the consumer electronics product development that the manufacturing engineers don’t like
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in 6 months when toronto is the creative epicenter of the world and i'm nowhere to be found i need tommy to tell the people i played my part
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the fruit company has solicited me by electronic mail to aide in the design and manufacture of digital wrist mounted horological devices and portable telecommunications equipment
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This is where me and @Kenmabraham have spent almost every weekend since November.
We started with 2 cars and we’re turning them into one.
Sometimes it get messy as hell, but generally we’re pretty tidy.
We’re almost done now, only one month left(™️)
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As it turns out, a small group of sufficiently motivated people can change the world. And actually, this shouldn't be controversial.
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There’s por15 in my hair and on my hands, knuckles are bleeding, i’m barely standing
But the engines in the car
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The Nintendo DSi is the best designed product in the line with the best hardware by a significant margin.
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bought my high school aged cousin a 3d printer for Christmas and we’ve been doing occasional cad spins and she just sent me her latest design.
608 bearings and embedded magnets for a hyper satisfying pencil holder 😁
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lucid vision systems makes really nice global shutter cameras for vision systems + they're hungry, manufacture their stuff in house in Canada, and have a linux first software stack.
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If you're building a consumer hardware company today (humane, UNISON, teenage engineering, etc)
Your only real choice is Asia based CMs.
Palindromes goal is fill the role of Pegatron, Foxconn... While being based in N. America for closer collaboration and shorter lead times.
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quality of output is directly proportional to how much you care and nobody cares more than me
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Like DFM, but one step more meta.
This is DFC. Design for CAD.
Our tools should get out of our way as much as possible, but modern CAD systems are ever-present.
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Going to start sharing stuff from my last last job.
Here’s a Nissan GTR intake manifold cut from a solid block of aluminum on a 5 axis cnc that can support up to 3 injectors per cylinder.
Good for 2000+ HP
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Saw two high schoolers with alibaba motocross helmets skipping school to pull up to Canadian harbor freight on mini bikes.
The kids are alright.
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thinking about the time we went to sf with 12hrs notice to fundraise, booked a random airbnb and became best friends with the host who lived upstairs and he let me rip his (unplated) 690 smcr around the city.
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will start counting the next time i go in. will try to have a reasonable estimate by the end of the week.
this questions comes up pretty often.
A question that I'm finding suspicious answers to online:
Some sources say that the engine and drivetrain of an internal combustion car has 2,000 moving parts.
Other sources say 200 moving parts.
Which is it?
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Super well designed, fit+finish is great, really well moulded parts, the kids loved it and so did their parents.
I want to get one for myself now :)
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nobody in this thread has worked on consumer electronics.
go look inside a $100 inkjet printer, $300 smartphone or $20 alarm clock.
this is how the world works outside of niche machine tool mfg and before 3dp existed.
everything is tooled, been this way for decades.
The level of complexity on this toolhead is like driving a nail with a sledge hammer
This feels like the work of a hoard of engineers instead of a few really really good ones.
Images from @Adam_V3D's latest video
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stop skeuomorphic additive mfg. your parts should not look like injection moulded parts.
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i handle fibre optic cables with the same fear and respect that i do when someone hands me their new born child
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Left my bike on the street in toronto for the past 19 days and it’s exactly as it was, just dustier.
Great city.
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been tweeting like a hater recently,,,, had to get it out. back to regular supportive love now
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One of my little cousins is studying mech eng at Waterloo
another just finished the 8th grade and wants to become a mechE.
My dad was a mechE
Building a dynasty rn
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i’m working on something pls send all photos of old toronto logo you’ve taken around the city
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