Making boards

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My $0.02 on the remote work debate. When I was an IC I preferred remote work, and worked remotely for much if my 20s, but now strongly prefer working in person with others. The social aspect of work (and its impact on professional growth) is underrated. x.com/timbotdotnet/s…

The people yearn to build stators. x.com/CooperZurad/st…

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If you outsource your product manufacturing, you are not a product company; you are a product intermediary - and sooner or later you will be optimized out of the process.

Clearly a very angry man about to lose his business. Totally understand his anger and it sucks from every angle. Heard from several in the last week and some pleading for government handouts. He built his e-commerce business from knowingly importing finished products from his

This part, machined from 1.75" aluminum round bar, would have cost me $6 including shipping with a two week lead time if I were to have it made in China. Price in the US? Less than a dollar, and in my hands within minutes. How? I made it myself. The lesson: just make it

Baby steps making baby chips.

That's a shame. People have been asking for country of origin on Amazon for years (McMaster-Carr does a great job at this) and posting the tariff rate would have accomplished the same thing. x.com/zerohedge/stat…

Making a lil vise for the mill. This is especially challenging without a vise, but I'm learning to make do. x.com/timbotdotnet/s…

I needed a vise for my new desktop CNC. I looked around and saw aluminum vises on Amazon for $40-70. Decided to make my own out of some 6061 remains. Total cost: ~$3 plus some M4 screws and nuts. Making it out of aluminum ended up being a good call, because the first time I

We’ve got new programs starting soon, and I need old material off the shelves, fast. We’re clearing out aluminum and carbon steel remnant stock and only charging for laser time on our 6K fiber laser. Great for prototyping, brackets, one-offs, and small batch runs. If you’ve

My step-by-step guide to creating a Windows VM in #OpenStack: gridcentric.com/blog/2013/04/1…

OpenStack Business Users Talk: Bloomberg awe.sm/t0hls Best Buy awe.sm/gEgXX Comcast awe.sm/jEfuV

My "all-in-one" Precise/Folsom/UCA install script for single-node #openstack installs: gist.github.com/tsmithgc/56810… - for OS-on-OS testing

Python garbage collecting those socket.sockets hard! "I am sorry sir your fd has been given to another party."

“a cyberpacket that’s about to destroy Wall Street.”

New business idea: cyberpackets that can be used for the purposes of good, not evil. Let the DoD contracts start rolling in. #cyberpacket

Car on fire I-5N in San Diego. NOT a Tesla.