Dival Banerjee 🦆
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Founder. Building a next generation metal 3D printer @vuecason | 🇺🇸/acc | ☦️
El Segundo, CA
Joined May 2014
imagine what the world would look like if you could iterate hardware at the rate of software.
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@OccupyDemocrats delete your account . starlink was never used to receive signals underwater.
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@sarahpolo10 @Sethrogen @deborahjonesnz @GOP People who think we can’t improve the environment and do space exploration at the same time have a zero sum and very limited understanding of the world.
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i strongly prefer a world where the United States has a monopoly on violence.
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@OccupyDemocrats there is no way starlink could provide communication with an underwater vehicle at that depth . i know because @BaliAnirudh and i built underwater robots in highschool. we used a physical cable to communicate between our ground control station and vehicle.
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@homo_futuruss @historyinmemes why would i follow anyone who outsources their tweets to gpt?.
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The equivalent of GitHub for CAD does not exist yet.
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me at 19
Let me see yall at 19? 👀.
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is the feeling of not being good enough required for ambition?.
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@Jack_Raines wrong. more people should reflect on what life path they want prior to deciding on college. we need more workers in manufacturing and those people will make good money. the idea that you’re fucked for life by not going to college or dropping out is ridiculous.
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Current metal 3D printing processes are like alchemy. It takes weeks/months of testing and failure to define parameters to print parts and pass QA repeatably . We've developed a new process, turning metal 3D printing into a rational, repeatable, industrial process that will scale.
1517 companies don't just make great products; they also make high-technological kinetic art. @divalbanerjee, @BaliAnirudh & @liese_max's metal 3D printer for their startup @vuecason.
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insane to see 5 axis milling at this scale.
Apple Vision Pro pre-orders begin today! We’re so excited for you to experience spatial computing for the first time!
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@br___ian @LADOTofficial @cd1losangeles it cost tax payers $200k and 3 years to make. for bent piece of sheet metal.
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@C_S_Skeptic @OccupyDemocrats no. this is physically impossible. electromagnetic fields attenuate a lot in salt water. for someone who preaches about the importance of critical thinking skills, you don’t have any
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Do we… just need to go back to slide rules and drafting tables?.
The SR-71 Blackbird was the last major U.S. aircraft designed with a slide rule. It took only 32 months to go from design on paper to 1st flight. It still holds the official speed record for a piloted aircraft. 1950s engineers were hardcore
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You’re hiding non-compliant components with third party suppliers in your ITAR regulated product are you not
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Addiction to thinking is required for original insight. Interview of Edward Teller on Von Neumann
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Anduril will be a defense prime.
So glad we can finally talk about this! Fury is a high-performance, multi-mission group 5 autonomous air vehicle. It is capable of pulling 9Gs at Mach 0.95 for a tiny fraction of the cost of similarly performant fighter craft.
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guy who works on humanoid robots but thinks 3D printing is mostly silly.
I get asked about 3D printing all the time. We do a decent amount of non structural 3D printing today, but within our high production line almost none of the robot will be 3D printed. You just can’t beat the cost of traditional manufacturing methods (stamp, casting, molding) -.
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we made a ton of progress this month on print quality. we’re going to keep moving faster and faster. it’s extremely important to bring industry back to the west.
Love waking up to a monthly update from.@divalbanerjee and the team at @vuecason. This is one month’s progress. The future is coming.
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mechanical engineering will start to look a lot more like software engineering this decade . aggressive testing is the fastest way to gain insight.
@a_musingcat if mechanical engineers could build, test until failure, redesign, and test again as quickly as software engineers, they'd probably act more like software engineers and it would be a good thing.
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honestly really glad to see all the CAD discourse. 3 years ago i’d see CAD posts once in a blue moon.
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@lexkschultz supporting the US military and extending pax americana is probably one of the most ethical things one can do.
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@sarahpolo10 @Sethrogen @deborahjonesnz @GOP space exploration will accelerate the development of climate tech anyway. So if you’re against progress in space, you’re actually against environmental preservation.
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if you haven’t realized it yet:. the EAs are experts in burning money and destroying value.
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@bznotes it would be extremely sad to see software suffer from stagnation the way manufacturing has over the last 50 years, that’s why it’s dangerous . people who don’t like “ethics” or “responsibility” aren’t actually opposed to either, we just know that it means something else.
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something special is happening in LA.
All over LA, founders are setting up clean rooms and robots to manufacture everything from rocket engine components to portable nuclear fission reactors. @jdsisteron and I compiled a list of 50 hard tech companies you should know about in and around LA:.
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@MisalignedBrian lol. it was the stupidest pitch call that i've ever been on by far. our beachhead market is high-performance tooling. they questioned this decision bc other AM companies have struggled to break into tooling, even after i outlined why those companies failed.
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El Segundo soon.
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the factory is a testament to human achievement. it’s really important for the public to get excited about manufacturing.
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I want a future where the real world is more malleable than the metaverse.
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@snowmaker turns out it’s actually useful and was too frustrating to use until a few years ago.
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3 metal 3D printing companies went public via SPAC in 2020 and 2021. They’re now trading at a combined market cap less than $500M.
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@benkohlmann Those printed parts are insanely complex, a lot of those flow paths are just embedded within the printed part. It replaced and consolidated several parts, flanges, and welds, which reduced overall system complexity and improved reliability.
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@BriannaWu @TaylorLorenz Not a bad-faith attack at all. Many people feel threatened by her and unsafe. And I'm not just talking about top VCs. I'm talking about Gen Z entrepreneurs and minors. The outrage is deserved.
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we will not achieve the solarpunk or terrapunk future without energy abundance or agile supply chains.
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if you define hardtech startups as companies that have more technical risk than execution risk then there are very few hard tech startups.
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moving to El Segundo becomes more tempting everyday.
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a common mistake I see in deeptech is when someone promotes how novel their technology is, rather than the new capabilities that technology provides. novel technology without new capability has no business value.
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@Aella_Girl Sounds like cope. People have realized that hedonism has led to despair and meaninglessness in tech. It’s good that the religious people can slay their desires and achieve true freedom and it shouldn’t have to be done in silence.
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metal 3D printing is a competitive and saturated market because only a handful of companies actually have any technical differentiation that actually creates business value.
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absolutely insane. the left is using svb to politically assassinate the tech industry
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@enlightenedcoop mutual understanding, values, and worldview. i could share that with someone who already is physically beautiful as well. once i’ve found that person why would i keep looking?. this type of person is not a commodity and would be already perfect to me- there is no upgrade to seek.
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The shift from increasing water supply to water conservation was a mistake.
No major water infrastructure that increases supply has been built in California since 1979, despite our population exploding approximately 70% since then to 40 million. The state's chronic water shortages are unsurprising.
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bullish on build teams. bearish on student council.
Two of SpaceX's senior execs Mark Juncosa and Bill Riley are Cornell grads who credit their engineering chops to the Formula1 project team (FSAE) in college. Join clubs in college to actually building stuff together, not the "consulting club" which is just college kids chatting.
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software enhanced local manufacturing > outsourced manufacturing.
They made a trillion dollars moving the industrial base to China. Trillion dollar opportunity as it moves back. Let’s get to work.
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Metal 3D printing 🤝 complex flow paths.
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lol the Europoors.
BREAKING: Twitter owner Elon Musk is hit with devastating news as France’s Digital Minister threatens to ban Twitter from the ENTIRE European Union territory if Musk does not get serious about tackling Twitter’s growing wave of “disinformation.” . But it gets WORSE for Musk…. A
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everytime i see this my head literally explodes.
No, this is not CGI. This terrifying little guy was built by Lockheed Martin to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles. The control is amazing. Credit: Lockheed Martin
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we have 4 years to push for revival and reform the country. make America great again.
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I got to ask @elonmusk what technology he was excited about but did not have time to pursue. His answer: an electric jet. And candy of course!
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why are so many gen z convinced that the world is falling apart?.
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wild how much a 7% difference in silicon content makes
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in startups, you have to force people to make decisions. if you leave too much room for not making decisions, progress stalls. no decisions = no progress.
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the replies in this thread are written by people who have never designed complex hardware.
In 5-10 years mechanical engineers will be paid more than software engineers because AI will have commoditized complex software but unlikely complex hardware.
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@thesephist i think a large reason why consumer printing hasn’t taken off is just the difficulty around design.
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Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier when most scientists thought it was impossible.
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human needs and desires cannot be standardized . fuck communism.
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