Wealth Advisement for Engineers – Bill Keen – Ep 123 Bill Keen has a passion for helping others achieve their retirement dreams and founded Keen Wealth Advisors with this goal in mind. Bill specializes in advising those within the engineering community on issues related to ESOP plans, compensation, taxes and benefits planning. We talked about…
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What 3D printer filament best imitates rubber with a shore A hardness of 50-60? There are no filaments that are that soft. The reason is that at that softness, the filament would be like wet spaghetti. It would be impossible to push it through the Bowden tube and the nozzle. I have tried with filament…
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Reverse Engineering Blog post From Quora question Reverse Engineering (RE) is the reproduction of another manufacturer’s product following detailed examination of its construction or composition. This could apply to physical products or digital (like software), but this article is going to focus on the physical products side. Why would someone want to reverse engineer…
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Machine Learning to Diagnose Health of Distributed Systems – Ava Naeini – Ep 122 Ava Naeini is the Founder and Data Architect of Pulse Operations, which is an intelligent engine that uses machine learning and statistical processing with various heuristics to determine the healthiness and performance of distributed systems.…
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How to Make a Custom Phone Case How to Make a Custom Phone Case As someone who has made dozens of different phone cases, I feel qualified to answer this question. The summary of the steps are: Decide what phone you want to make a case for Create a CAD design of the case…
DetailsThingLogix Company – Rob Rastovich– Ep 120 Rob Rastovich is the CTO of ThingLogix, a company that provides a low-code platform built on AWS, Google, and Azure to accelerate innovation and system development by a factor of 50 or more. We talk about examples of how his company…
DetailsLife Science Inventions and Patent LawKevin Buckley and Neil Thompson – Ep 119 Kevin Buckley(right) is the founders of Torrey Pines Law Group and Neil Thompson(left) is a patent agent with the firm. The firm focuses on life science inventions that often have an AI component. We discuss the differences between patent agents and patent attorneys.…
DetailsYoungest Person to Fly a Rocket to Space – Jordan Noone – Ep 118 Jordan Noone is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Embedded Ventures. He has had a lifelong interest in aerospace, including designing and building spaceflight hardware at age 18 while at the University of Southern California. He is also the first student…
DetailsDraft.Dev – Karl Hughes – Ep 117 Karl Hughes studied mechanical engineering in college but in his last year got into coding. His first job was building a blog for his college campus. From that, he worked in programming and managing writers. During the pandemic, he started his business, Draft.dev. His company writes technical posts…
DetailsMaking a More Efficient Hot Water Heater – Tiago Bandeira – Ep 116 Tiago Bandeira is the founder of KLUGIT Energy. His first product is an electric hot water heater. The problem is that a regular hot water heater does a constant on-off cycle due to heat loss. This cycling wastes a lot of energy.…
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