Luke Bayes (Eight Amps)
@lukebayes
Making robots that assemble PCBs and assistive tech for disabled vets at Eight Amps. Led the effort to bring YouTube to all the big screens. USMC Veteran.
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I made the jump from leading top tier software development teams to designing and manufacturing electronics a few years ago and was just reflecting on one of the biggest things I've learned. Cycle Times 🧵
I didn't know about an exemption!
Does anyone else know about this? Has anyone here successfully ordered PCBs from JLCPCB or PCBWay (or another Chinese shop) and gotten it tariff free as a prototype? All of my boards are prototypes right now; I'm clearly exactly what the linked law is talking about.
Big news from my friends at Superhuman (formerly Grammarly). Looking forward to seeing where this goes!
Huge news: We’re changing our company name from @Grammarly to Superhuman and launching a new product! The Grammarly brand isn’t going anywhere, but we’re evolving into a multi-product company that includes Grammarly, Coda, Superhuman Mail, and a new AI assistant called…
If you're extremely lucky and live long enough, you'll flip from being the youngest person in the room, to being the oldest person in the room. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this happened to me over the course of a single day.
And this is how it is supposed to look, with the vias properly Tented!
Don't forget to double/triple check your generated Gerber files! By mistake forgot to set the vias to tented (Altium defaults to untented ...) on a first prototype at work. KiCAD defaults to tented vias and JLC for 6L and up does not seem to have an overwrite of this.
It's completely incredible to observe how much a small group of determined people can accomplish.
We're losing the war. AI slop emails with a daily, "just following up" are driving me up a wall. It feels like 6 months before @paulg figured out Bayesian filters in the early aughts. Are y'all dealing with this too? Or is it a skill issue? What's the fix?
seems all the cool kids want to work in defence or, humanoid robotics. or defensive humanoid robotics. here I am, suddenly longing to be on the teams that are building the tools, that let us build the chips, that let us build the rest of the stack.
Advice to students, young engineers and inquisitive amateurs. Every major project I do, until and including today, follows this pattern, and never does the fear leave. ============ 1) Can you do "thing x" ? 2) No. 3) Go to ntrs.nasa.gov , download all papers pertaining…
New shop record! We turned a customer PCB order in ~6 hours on Friday. That's 6 hours from kit on-site to shipper picked up. Nothing feels quite a good as SHIPPING.
I have always dreamed of a set of goggles that would translate across the entire spectrum into the slice we can see.
Crazy how you can pack the entire world of visual experience into a tiny slice of electromagnetic spectrum.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” This quote, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, always rings in my ears when a certain programming language enters the discourse.
Zig is cool because it seems to be designed by a human that codes for a living, not a committee Patterns that we use on a day to day are backed into the syntax and just allows for expressive and terse code Rust gives you the safety but at the cost of super verbose and hard to…
This is the kind of head gear our robots should be rocking.
We had a pope in the 12th century who died leading a battle against the Roman Senate.
A lot of things are about to get a lot smaller!
Tenstorrent has launched the Open Chiplet Atlas™ Ecosystem — creating a truly open chiplet market. "This is not just a new standard—it’s the beginning of a collaborative community that will drive the next generation of system innovation,”Wei-Han Lien, Chief Architect at…
I SWEAR TO GOD, if I dig into turbine manufacturing supply chain LEAD TIME and find out it’s a fucking QUEUEING PROBLEM for HEAT TREAT. I’m gonna blow a fucking gasket
An investor asked me, “Don’t you think you’re doing too much?” My response "No, Businesses are multicellular organisms. Every great company masters multiple domains, engineering, marketing, sales, operations. Businesses that delay building cross-functional strength die"
I’ve heard from many people that we’re a "dozer company" On the surface, that’s true, but behind the scenes, we do far more than meets the eye. We build modular systems that power an entire ecosystem of machines(from excavators to wheel loaders): control systems, battery packs,…
We caught this great video from @Alpha__Phoenix yesterday. 2B fps with a vacuum tube light sensor. Incredible to watch a laser light move through time and space. His explanations are thoughtful, fun and insightful. youtu.be/o4TdHrMi6do?si…
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A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look......
No shade intended, but if you are in robotics, pivot to manufacturing.
Why self-driving cars took so long? @karpathy answer has many parallels to robotics as those are the most advanced robots in IRL right now. “For some kind tasks…there’s a very larger demo-to-product gap. Demo is very easy product is very hard….its a march of nines. Every…
The @karpathy interview 0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away 0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits 0:40:53 – RL is terrible 0:50:26 – How do humans learn? 1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth 1:18:24 – ASI 1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture 1:43:43 - Why self…
This goes triple for legacy suppliers. You've had decades to refine your craft, and make it profitable to serve small orders but you chose not to. If you won't take our orders while we're small, you won't get them when we're large.
This matches our observations. It doesn't have to be like this! The job is to move a few micrograms a few centimeters, why tons of steel and millions of dollars? Why serialize every single operation in a separate machine? For SPI, data collection should be separate from…
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