soggypenny
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Comment · 9 years ago
I added The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. (unsure if on Project Gutenberg, but it's at least free on Amazon). btw, when I submitted the form the thank you message was off-white text on a white background.
Comment · 9 years ago
Sure! Email in profile.
Comment · 10 years ago
That's probably because Apple bought up Mirasol. http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-ov...
Comment · 11 years ago
"Quirky brought more than 400 products to market in just six years." - from the New York Magazine article.
That number is absolutely staggering. I would love to see what their internal product development was like.
Comment · 11 years ago
Currently Upwork freelancers who are hired for hourly work get monitored for time tracking called the Work Diary[0]. My understanding is that this is a well-received value-add for their platform.
Comment · 11 years ago
Great story, thaumaturgy! Does anyone know how much more rigorous Statistical Process Control [0] needs to be for aerospace than for consumer electronics (for example)? I wouldn't be surprised if 1/1000 failure is AOK for consumer hardware and catastrophic failure for aerospace (as we see with SpaceX).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_process_control
Comment · 11 years ago
I absolutely love it when companies publish their product development stories. Being forced to switch injection molding suppliers mid-production is often a nightmare scenario for product developers, and it's great that they were able to salvage their tooling. I'd love to learn more about what exactly was wrong and how they were able to fix it.
Comment · 11 years ago
Yes, it's beautiful. However, looks like there's no form validation on the email submit. I just submitted "r" as an email address.
Comment · 12 years ago
We (https://supplybetter.com) get asked the China vs. US question all the time and my answer is usually "your mileage may vary". It's a great post by the Flow team, but where to source your manufacturing supply chain is highly dependent on the type of product being built. For instance, the product and vendor certifications required for aerospace, defense, and medical industries are a much larger influencer of where to setup a supply chain than in the consumer hardware space. If you're developing a high-end consumer office product like the Flow team, then it probably makes sense to do the majority of the development domestically. The Bay Area is a great place to prototype hardware, and there's a large fraction of potential beta testers and software talent for them to tap. But like I said, YMMV.
Comment · 12 years ago
"Shortcomings of the STL format in terms of processing time and object dimensional precision are a barrier for the production of complex, high-precision parts ... this format only allows geometric representation, so it does not allow voxel-by-voxel information to be carried from the CAD software to the printer. To realize the full potential of 3D printing, the roadmaps of 3D printers and 3D CAD software must be aligned, and the roadmaps must be accompanied by a change to a more information-rich file format."
To me, this right here is the heart of the white paper. If they want their machine to stand apart from polyjet (Objet) technology by printing with per-voxel control of multiple materials (very similar to Objet's digital materials [0]), then they're going to have to create a new workflow for engineers to design with (which was not detailed in the whitepaper other than this mentioning of a new kind of file format needed to handle the design information). Particularly, is the design workflow going to allow for finite element analysis (FEA) of both geometry and material? People are already creating CAD software that will allow for user-friendly FEA of geometry [1], but I'm not sure if anyone is working on FEA of both geometry and material. If HP can develop that solution, that right there would be a legitimate breakthrough.
[0]: http://www.stratasys.com/materials/polyjet/digital-materials [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU3W-RrJDT4#t=327
Comment · 12 years ago
Shameless plug for our 3D printing matching service: http://www.supplybetter.com. You come to us with a project, and we match you to the best service bureaus for the job (i.e. the people with the printers, both hobbyist and commercial). I'm the co-founder and mechanical engineer on the team, and you work directly with me as we source your project. Check us out!
Comment · 12 years ago
Great timing as I was recently looking for a resource like this. I've been leaning towards Flask (vs. Django) so I'll definitely check this out.
2. hammerhead.io
1@2 is work email.