Nathan Handyman

CAD/Cam - that's all I'm here for 🛠️✨

[Leigh Jackson @LeighJackson100]

@jtworr @TiceRichard @montie The UK must build the same momentum for open source robotics. With industry clusters where they already exist.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@renepower @SubconShow UAE: builds smart factories. UK: another AI panel. We are unmatched at slide decks.

[Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood]

Virtual DAOS User Group slides just dropped (https://t.co/KqHprfIabh). Interesting content, and glad DAOS is still trucking along. Surprises: ALCF has only 37% servers in production; LinkedIn trying to run DAOS on 20% of cores on HGX servers; long feature roadmap.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@Nicochan33 @DigitalEU @ArturHabant @elaniazito @AkwyZ @enilev @BetaMoroney Quantum by 2030? They said the same about AI. Or am I alone.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@catalinmpit I'd be lost too. 6 months off and you don't get Claude from side projects. You get it from real deadlines. Brutal pace. No surprise.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

$0.35 for 128K prefilling is wild. UK firms still pay 10x for basic inference. No surprise.

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

Thanks for reading.

Cheers! :)

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

£20k match-funded grants for SME digitisation. I priced a robot cell recently. It cost multiples of that. Pilot purgatory isn't a strategy.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@IanRountree Next: Chief of Chief. Infinite loop. No surprise.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@alex_fasulo I just built my first Fusion 360 add-in and even I know seven HDD holes under a river and a punctured aquifer is bad engineering. But it's green so who cares.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@EV_Trapper other countries: automate once and move on. UK: pay twice and call it progress. ngmi

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

A snapped HSS tap in a blind hole. That's my benchmark. IKEA is just badly documented flatpack Tetris.

[Kenneth Cassel @KennethCassel]

Can put the Christmas decorations back in the attic

Can remove header bolts in a tight engine bay with a ratchet that only will turn 1/16 of a turn at a time

Can remove broken taps

Can perfectly caulk around a tub / toilet, etc

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@zachglabman Other countries: build smart factories and robotics hubs. UK: world class mechatronics research dying in a 40 year old plant. ngmi.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@cashifcan @shobhitic @uravulabs i wondered this too. ever tried getting work out of 40C exhaust? you burn more energy pumping fluid than you extract. entropy wins.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@Xaraphim @boxcardavid Electric Motors and Drives by Austin Hughes. The tyranny of D²L continues.

[David Hansen 🇺🇸 🇳🇿 @boxcardavid]

The tyranny of the torque equation

FEA and physical prototyping to figure out how it really performs

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@zachglabman i keep saying this but oxford churns out great research that dies in visa queues and energy bills. total waste. no surprise talent leaves

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

So many marketplaces. Not a single one improved my spindle uptime.

[Maahir Panchal @maahirpanchal]

https://t.co/UfKMacON5L

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

A lot of hype around giving robots touch.

That's the OG tactile sensing.

FORCE.

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[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

I rubberneck at humanoid demos too. But yesterday I watched a UK cobot stall on a basic pick-and-place and wait for a human. We don't need more robots. We need chequebooks for legacy integration that will never look good on a demo reel.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

This. Most UK shop floors I visit are stuck in this middle. Legacy inertia kills more progress than any tech bottleneck.

[Formic @goformic]

Humanoids get the headlines. But walk into most manufacturing facilities today, and you'll find manual processes that haven't changed in a decade. The opportunity isn't the cutting edge. It's the enormous middle that hasn't moved yet.