Sites for Class
Robotics & Automation
Internal Combustion Engine – cam and follower, piston, valves, camshaft, intake, compression, power, exhaust, etc.
Capstan Drive Robot Dog – awesome writeup on an innovative implementation of capstan drives and ropes along with encoders, IMU, etc.
Humanity’s Last Machine – cool website on humanoid robotics with attention paid to each subsystem and common solutions to common problems in the field
OpenBuilds Building Components – get plug-n-play aluminum extrusion from OpenBuilds – sometimes their website changes around
Manufacturing
Photonics Supply Chain Explorer – deep dive into the different suppliers in the photonics and co-packaged optics manufacturing supply chain
Keyboard PCB Startup Writeup – guy made a keyboard hardware startup and wrote it up
Made in Ethiopia – movie about the private investment, government regulation/facilitation, and environmental relations that are involved in manufacturing
Helium – a supply chain investigation into all of the markets dependent on helium production