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3D Printing and Laser Machining…At the Same Time

Very cool: Hybrid Machine Combines Milling and Additive Manufacturing

By using laser deposition to build up the part, while employing milling throughout the process to machine critical features as the part is taking shape, the machine can produce a component through additive manufacturing while also producing it to its completed tolerances within the same cycle.

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November 17th, 2013 | Tags: , | Category: Space Technology, Useful Technology | Comments are closed

A Rare New Bacterium Thrives In Spacecraft Cleanrooms | Popular Science

Since we’re building our prototype in our conference room and my garage, we won’t have to be concerned about this – A Rare New Bacterium Thrives In Spacecraft Cleanrooms:

Just because we haven’t found this weird little guy elsewhere doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in nature. “We find a lot of bugs in clean rooms […]

November 9th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Science & Engineering, Space Science | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Government is Magic

An excellent essay on the decline of competence: Sultan Knish: Government is Magic

The essay is worth reading in full, along with the additional related points and examples in the comments, but this part sticks out for me:

Competence is built on the unhappy understanding that things won’t work because you want them to, they […]

November 3rd, 2013 | Tags: , , , | Category: Economics, Enginastery, politics, Science & Engineering | Comments are closed