BreakingTaps
@BreakingTaps
Material Science, Microfabrication, Microscopy He/him. @[email protected] (Fedi) / @breakingtaps.com (Blue)
I made a liquid metal ion thruster so you don't have to ☺️ (it was very difficult 😩)
Find me at @OpenSauceLive ... before Captain Disillusion does! -Intern Alan
Rumor has it that there will be a machinist panel at @OpenSauceLive. And a certain connoisseur of inoperable threading devices might be the panel moderator. 😇 So uhh, go buy tickets and heckle from the audience or something
Anyone going to Open Sauce in sf? We’re sponsoring a few builders and have room for more. DMs open
YESSSSSSSS
🚨 KegRocket EPISODE 4 is finally LIVE! 🚨 youtu.be/0kY2uYqOTcc
This is just purposefully malicious. The point is clearly to just axe science missions, not any reasonable approach to saving money. 😠 What a disheartening bit of news to end the week.
Well over $20B in taxpayer, paid for assets being thrown away for a savings that's literally pennies on those dollars. I'm all for shrinking waste and increasing efficiencies in our government, but this is neither. science.org/content/articl…
Not even noon and it's looking like a two-cappuccino, two-monster sorta day. 🥴
New video: Iron nitride permanent magnets made with DIY ball mill and tested with DIY magnetometer youtube.com/watch?v=M6XIgd…
Following the cult hit success of volume 0x00, the time has come to submit contribution proposals for the next installment of X's very own hardware zine: HARDWARE THRASHERS of 𝕏 -- [0x01] Scope: robotics / FPGA / materials science / ASIC / machining / circuitry / board design…
Had a long flight and finally got around to fully reading @Ben_Reinhardt's essay on DARPA, why it works, where it struggles, and how it might be replicated: blog.benjaminreinhardt.com/wddw Very thought provoking read. Been on my todo for ages, should have read sooner!
The optimization field has the best names -Artificial Gorilla Troops Optimizer (GTO) -Remora Optimization Algo (ROA) -Polar Bear Optimization (PBO) -Red Fox Optimization (RFO) -Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) -Marine Predator Algo (MPA) -African Vulture Optimization Algo (AVOA)