Huh, I didn't know that Pirate Wires was just a blog by Mike Solana and not like, you know, a fount of super interesting (and sometimes snarky) journalism to which I and many others subscribe. 😐

lol nice

Rebuilding the U.S. Industrial Base Should Be a Priority of Our Government newsweek.com/rebuilding-us-…

Factorio vibes.

Can confirm. Totally packed.

Factory life ain’t for the faint of heart.

Literally every parent I met agrees: Bluey is the best children's TV show. Full stop.

secrets of the true funding funnel

Build/Boost Pete Oxenham Biggest fallacy of determining the true cost of a part is just assuming the material costs. Even adding in production labor isn't enough. Tooling, scrap rates, inspection, etc. Oh and if you're selling something to other manufacturers, they might want decade-long availability.

Before they all think I’m on their side: the 6 DoF robot is the best piece of automation equipment humanity has ever had. Without it, robotics would not be an industry, automation would just be computer engineers

This is the way.

I've seen a lot of robotics companies, and I've been inside hundreds of factories at this point. Seen a lot of vaporware. Seen a lot of nonsense. I think what Edward Mehr and team are building is one of the coolest and real products out there.

Blessed are the machine builders.

When I co-founded Eniac Ventures with my friends and partners Hadley nihal Tim Young in 2009, we recognized a unique opportunity to build a new venture capital firm to serve founders at the earliest stage of their journey - seed - which did not exist back then as an

If you're starting a company, Vic should be one of your first calls. I know he's mine if I ever start another one. Vic was one of the first people to take a bet on me as a first-time founder. He's been with me every step of the way since and I've had the pleasure of getting to

If you cannot explain something to someone else so they understand it, then you yourself don't really understand it. x.com/peteoxenham/st…

This guy is rapidly becoming my new favorite follow on manufacturing Twitter.

I think the real answer here is that we discovered a lot of fundamental platform theories like the Einstein Field Equations and the Dirac Equation that fueled a generation of new science and technologies. We haven't really discovered something that fundamental this century.

This looks really cool.