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we need to make millions of motors and actuators in America, quickly @westmagco
Not advice but these folks own the only neodymium mine in the USA
Hardest part will be getting the materials. Neodymium, in particular.
Atlanta is west of Detroit, good luck sleeping tonight
I propose a hardware meetup at the SoMa Costco food court on sundays at 11am. See, if it鈥檚 a bust then you鈥檙e still at a Costco which you needed to be at anyways to buy some shit. Dogs on me.
Can someone tell us all the good good brand of zipties? Amazon and Walmart are flooded with unzipties
What's your favorite simple invention? I'll start
If any of you sickos need ip67-rated drone motors I usually have on me a carryon half filled with them
Drones will be doing much more than flying This was built by an undergrad
Is there a fundamental lower limit for noise when moving air? Like dB / cfm / area or something that rhymes with that
Katz is out of the bag
2017: Ben Katz drops MIT cheetah actuator design 2019: Ben joins Boston Dynamics 2020: Cheetah actuators proliferate in China 2024: Atlas switches from hydraulic to electric actuators 2025: this
If anyone can figure out how to prototype perfect small gears at low volume please take everyone鈥檚 money
You can get away with lasering ~20DP/~1.27 mod or larger gears but good luck with anything finer. Prototype gears is not a solved problem, not at all.
Beautiful timing
Give me your tired, your poor, your rare earth-free brushless motor pitch deck
Give me your tired, your poor, your rare earth-free brushless motor pitch deck
If you鈥檙e in Detroit this week for the first time and need to get your bearings follow and dm @justin_kosmides from Bloom, he lives right in Corktown, he鈥檚 the super connector in the Newlab building, and he has good taste in food. Go see some fzctories.
gm we are going to reindustrialize
Goldilocks torque and weight
Spy photos of the X8-32 standard model, which weighs only 550 grams and has a peak torque of 32 Nm.