Talk at Ken Goldberg's Berkeley Lab - June 12th
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Ken wanted me to talk about what we're doing at Plethora and beyond, so I mashed up some slides / ideas and let fly!
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- 2. Nick’s Projects Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 3. • Get space creatively • Behind every hackerspace is a cool landlord • Get members first, get them to pay up • Be open to the community, open shop Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 4. • Started as distributed fabbing marketplace • Don’t do this... • Then automated 3D printing • Then injection mold quoting software Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 5. 17 Meetups +5000 Members Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 6. Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 7. Why Hardware Startups? • Real Problems: Food, water, shelter, medicine... We can’t solve these by just adding software - new machines and devices need to be made. • Big Companies aren’t moving fast enough - we need startups to solve these hardware problems faster and more widely. Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 8. Prototyping is Solved Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 9. Manufacturing hasn’t changed in 100 years Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 10. Development Environments Sublime Text Autodesk Inventor Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 11. How fast can you debug? Instantly “I’ll get to it...” Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 12. DFM Plug-ins Full-auto Factory Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 13. Making CAD an IDE Part Libraries Validate Quote Press: “Make” Share Simulate Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 14. Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 15. Potpourri Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 17. MechE Tools Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 18. EE Tools Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 19. The Robot Wars Baxter RobotMaster Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 20. Digital Manufacturing is the Real Movement • 3DP is currently overhyped, but it is great for prototyping and as a Gateway Drug • Prototyping is close to solved • Production is the real problem Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 21. Manufacturing Physics • Feature formation efficiency (x = speed) • Molding is x^3, SLS = x^2, FDM = x • Material Compatibility (melting points, etc.) • Don’t Fight Entropy: melting vs. forming Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 22. Nothing is ever Democratized “Good, Fast, Cheap - pick two” - Engineering Maxim Computers? Are datacenters just a bunch of MacBooks? Printers? Why does Print-on- Demand exist? Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 23. Vertical is Back • Who: SpaceX,Tesla,Apple, Makerbot, 3D Robotics, OpenROV, etc. • HybridVertical & Core Competencies • Hyundai built their own steel mill Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 24. Engineering Conservatism Software Engineering (minutes) Electrical Engineering (days) Mechanical Engineering (weeks) Civil Engineering (months) Conservatism is driven by iteration time and risk Screwing up (debugging) is how you have to work. Screwing up is very expensive. Don’t do it! One iteration, if it breaks: “You’re Fired!” It’s going to take a few boards to get it right. Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 25. Manufacturers don’t want your help • Still focused on big players and mass production • Don’t make their own software / electronics.All of them are mech. engineers / machinists • “What’s MAKE Magazine?” -Youth coordinator for manufacturing magazine Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 26. Distributed Production is a Canard Distributed / Democratized Prototyping is Real Wednesday, June 12, 2013
- 27. Machine cost doesn’t matter • Machine vs. Unit vs. Setup Cost • Facebook is capital intensive: • $1.8B Datacenter + $53M/YR electricity • $1.5B 2012 Revenue Wednesday, June 12, 2013