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 🧵
How do we enable single-layer PCBs to support the routing complexity of multi-layer PCBs? We're making a "Bridge-Programmable Interconnect" chip. This chip is "programmed" by traces etched on the top layer of the PCB, it allows any configurable pin to connect to any other…
How I accidentally started a 9-figure US manufacturing company: *this is not advice, just how I did it:
This sounds like what I hoped I was getting when I bought a Bantam benchtop mill years ago. The promise of slicer style CAM and predefined feeds and speeds is huge if true. Is anyone in the US chasing this problem for anything like this price point?
I'm pretty excited about the new NestWorks CNC mill. The plan is to make desktop CNC as easy as 3d printing. I visited them at their offices in Shenzhen and they're really fascinating engineers & entrepreneurs. Go watch the video I made about my visit on my YouTube
Buy the RAM bro, seriously. It’s the best ROI you’ll ever get in ML. 256GB RAM is like $400 on Amazon. ImageNet, the whole thing is about 150GB. LAION is 200GB. 99% of Kaggle datasets are under 100GB. Chances are your data fits in 256GB too. Everyone's real life data does.…
If you end up with empty PCB space, consider filling it up with ground pours. Advantages: 1. Less EMI: the ground pours act as a Faraday cage around your signals 2. Better heat dissipation: that copper is a heat sink 3. Reduced crosstalk: the ground pours act as a guard between…
For anyone working with actuators, this clip is nightmare fuel. How many children have lost fingers and hands to this running and jumping pinch hazard?
🇨🇳 En este zoo de China, usan robots para simular que hay pequeños dinosaurios. Los niños parece que se lo creen 🦖
Wild times - and somehow you make it look easy!
How it started (2018): - Bought a laser - Developed instant quoting system - Hired 3 people - We can cut metal with lasers! - We can ship it to your door! How it went for 7 years (from what I can remember): - Bought another laser - Hired 9 more people - Added 23k lines of code…
Some folks don't know about the interdimensional cable and belt gateway...
Many such cases. Wires and belts slip into and out of some obscure dimension when moving from measured to installed. There's another universe that's about 30% smaller and they're inundated with otherwise identical, but oversized belts and cables.
Our shared, cultural history is being deleted. This album is now mostly unavailable on YouTube music and Apple music, probably elsewhere too. I was able to hear Misirlou because I uploaded it from a burned CD 10 years ago. Forbidden, archaic sounds.
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.
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