Plastics are the best rejoinder to the claim that progress in the physical world stalled after the 1970s. Wonder materials that are used to cure cancer and can make things look cool in ways that are impossible with any other material.

If US federal deficit spending of ~6% GDP was lowered to 0, could inflation stay low with near 0 interest rates for extended periods? We'd get ZIRP, but only the good parts...

text to cad is insufficient because even the best engineers need a whiteboard to convey intent to each other accurately

Even stranger when you see that it's not far from perfectly projected through the earth from one side to the other. (This is an antipodal map of the Earth)

In SF for Open Sauce and meeting awesome hardware startups/customers. Who wants to meet up and talk hardware?

Who is the most successful VC in hardware companies? Someone who invested in many companies with multiple wins? Success = company that got to significant revenue, gross profit, and still exists in some form today.

I guess that puts 3D printing somewhere around Insane -- congrats Formlings, for making it this far in the game. Formlabs

Perfectly captures something strange/broken about LLMs: they take more computation to produce longer output, while humans often take more computation to produce shorter output.

Steven Godofsky When you need to rapidly iterating parts at scale less than 10k, molding just isn’t up to the speed and is too expensive. youtu.be/GpYRJFa9hhc?si… the only advantage of molding is part strength, but 3d printing tech is catching up.

eVTOL grifters have moved on to humanoids even before their previous companies have failed. Lots of great hardware companies that won't get funded because they soak up a lot of money, over promise and underdeliver. (Lots of great opportunities in robotics and electric aircraft.

Automation + 3D printing is going to fulfill the dream of 3D printing getting to high volume manufacturing.

🫡to the Formlabs operations team

13 years ago, 3D Systems sued Formlabs for patent infringement.  (Before we shipped a single unit -- literally based on a Kickstarter video!) Today, Formlabs gross profit exceeds 3D Systems. How: we focused on building stuff that people want to buy.

Cutting edge technology is often beautiful.

728 mold sets for dental aligners from just two machines in 24 hours? For this project we set up a fully automated workflow around two Formlabs Form 4BL printers, paired with a wash station and curing machine. The printers themselves are excellent, but continuous scalable