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	Podcast:		The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
	Episode:		#405 – An Interview with Spencer Wright
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		01:07:51
	Publish Date:		2018-09-03 12:16:26
	Description:		The Prepared. It’s both a weekly newsletter and an occasional podcast 0:02 Spencer claims he is a fake engineer since he was an english major 0:02 Grew up in the Hamptons doing construction 0:06 Dealing with subcontractors in the construction industry 0:06 Custom bicycle frames for $2K 0:07 Mahogany experience from the construction industry led to a job building custom robot doors for a beach house. 0:09 This is where he brought in his co-host on the prepared Zach Dunham to do audio design (Zach was a guest on this show on episode 350) 0:10 Later they brought in Todd Bailey to do the control electronics (Todd was a guest on this show on episode 194) 0:10 This trio decided to take the MIT online electronics course, 6.002x 0:12 Zach and Spencer built The Public Radio together, which they are still selling. 0:14 This is made and programmed by Worthington Assembly 0:14 Sourcing – finding parts for the robot doors 0:18 They worked out of an old Northrup Grumman facility that used to make jets 0:19 Choice paralysis 0:25 Spencer’s full time job is at nTopology 0:27 They do 3D printing software for non-traditional uses. 0:27 We previously talked a little about 3D printing for non-traditional (rocket building at Relativity Space) uses with Brent and Bryce a couple episodes ago. 0:28 DMLS 0:29 Wrote about the titanium / metal powderbed fusion 0:30 CAD software designed for printing implants 0:33 Porous hip cup that bones can grow into. 0:35 Precision Castparts Corp 0:37 Acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2015 0:37 Flyknit shoes – Nike 0:39 Trend spotting 0:42 Reducing number of tollgates to bring a product to market 0:43 Procuring parts more easily – most software isn’t great 0:43 MFG.com 0:46 Localization of manufacturing 0:48 US vs China 0:48 Insourcing manufacturing of the Public Radio 0:54 Work instructions using Tulip 0:54 Spencer talked to Rony from Tulip on The Prepared podcast 0:56 Spencer uses PartsBox.io to search for parts in his personal inventory 1:00 Find Spencer on most social media channels as pencerw 1:04 ThePrepared.org 1:05 nTopology.com 1:05
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