Inside the DesignLab Podcast

We have a special guest this week! Hunter Futo joins the podcast!

Topics covered this week...

• Hunter's Favorite Movie: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Using a boring bar on the Epilog Thermal Exhaust Port
• A Misadventure with the ShopBot Z-Axis
• Creative Constraints
• The bankruptcies of Toys-R-Us and Claire's

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Using the Boring Bar in the Tormach to mill out the exhaust port on the Epilog to a slightly wider dimension, allowing a stronger connection to the vent ducting.

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A mis-click here and an overly sensitive Lenovo touchpad there and suddenly...

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Creative constraints are restrictions that are imposed or you yourself impose on your design to allow your creativity to flourish in a focused way.

"Don't Play the Butter Notes": https://www.wnyc.org/story/interview-herbie-hancock/

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Toys R Us Bankruptcy: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-08/toys-r-us-said-to-be-prepping-liquidation-of-u-s-operations

Claire's Bankruptcy: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/news/companies/claires-bankrupt/index.html

Another week of travel mean another week delay, but we're back! On this week's show...

• Majenta's Favorite Rocky Movie
• Touring mHub in Chicago
• Supplyframe video series: Detours
• Lathes
• Blockchain
• Sarah Sitkin's "Bodysuits" Exhibition at Superchief Gallery

https://soundcloud.com/supplyframe_designlab/episode-20

Turns out Majenta's favorite Rocky movie is Creed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed_(film)

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mHub Chicago

Tensile Strength Tester

Neoden Electronics Assembly Production Line

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Latest Supplyframe Detoured Video

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"Bodysuits" exhibit. This is a basic link as most of the links with pictures from the exhibit are NSFW. You can hunt that down yourself :)

https://www.curate.la/event.php?id=12874

We return from our one week hiatus (traveling to do product installs)! This week, we cover...

• The latest version of Rhino CAD
• The latest version of KiCad
• Nonsensical movie nonsense

https://soundcloud.com/supplyframe_designlab/episode-19-rough-rugged-roughened

Rhino v6 Features

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KiCad v5 Features

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In "Rocky", Apollo Creed was played by Carl Weathers, who would go on to star as "Dylan" in Predator across from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Predator also starred the great Bill Duke, who also starred in Commando, the movie Giovanni and I mention with rapturous breath.

Hey there!  On Episode 18 of Inside the DesignLab we talk about...

• Who is more influential: Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos
• Optimizing the manufacture of the Cirrus Aircraft
• The DesignLab Lamp Project
• Friction Welding and Ultrasonic Welding
• What we're looking forward to in Lab Injection Molding

Image: The Palm V

Image: The Original Research In Motion Blackberry

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Cirrus Aircraft Manufacturing via AVWeb...

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Link: The DesignLab Lamp Project

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Friction Welding

Hello everyone!  Thanks for checking the show notes for Episode 17... this week we talk about...

• The Reddit post on Injection Molding Costs
• Fabrication Jigs and Fixtures
• The Lab's NeoDen4 Pick-and-place Machine
• A visit to Industrial Metal Supply
• Majenta's Visit to Machine Histories (video linked below)
• The Falcon Heavy Launch

Go below the fold for all the links...

Reddit Post: "Injection molding of a 4 inch x 4 inch x 1 inch block"

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Cold Cut Saw: Stop-Block Jig...

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The Lab's NeoDen4 Pick-and-place...

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Visit to Industrial Metal Supply...

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Majenta's Visit to Machine Histories

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Space-X Falcon Heavy test launch for those that haven't seen it...

Some of the things we talk about this week...

• How Majenta blew up the Saw Stop Table Saw...
• Sankuanz Shoe for shoes
• Giovanni's Import / Export Misery...
• Rostock Power Whip

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How Majenta blew up the Saw Stop Table Saw...

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Sankuanz Shoe for shoes...

https://www.designboom.com/design/sankuanz-shoes-sneaker-protector-sandal-paris-mens-fashion-week-01-31-2018/

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Giovanni's Import / Export Misery...

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Rostock Power Whip