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MachinePix Weekly #25

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MachinePix Weekly #25

Manufacturing wood veneer was this week's most popular post 🪵

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Jan 4, 2021
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MachinePix Weekly #25

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Last week’s interview with Jeff Linnell took us behind Hollywood’s cameras and the robots that control them; next week’s interview takes us in front of th~e cameras with Frank Ippolito.

Frank is the creator of Thingergy and has made FX costumes and props for blockbusters, TV shows, and games.

A brief introduction to 'Star Wars' knitwear - RokzFast
Frank also played this Mon Calamari with a cable knit sweater.

The most popular post last week was a somewhat terrifying lathe for turning logs into veneer.

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Veneer peeling lathe machine making wood veneer from a log.
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10:42 PM ∙ Dec 29, 2020
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I’m always looking for interesting people to interview, have anyone in mind?

—Kane


The Week in Review

This begs the question, how did goalies repeatably and consistently train before machines? 🤔

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Soccer trainer by @BallLauncherUK.
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8:50 PM ∙ Jan 2, 2021
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Heavy lift vessels are awesome and come in a lot of shapes. Here’s one for carrying yachts. Here’s one for carrying other large ships. Here’s a big honkin’ crane on another one. The strange shape of the VB 10,000 is a result of its salvage application: you don’t quite know the shape of the thing you’ll have to pick up.

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Versabar VB 10,000 Heavy Lift Catamaran for salvaging.
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12:38 AM ∙ Jan 2, 2021
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Agriculture is one of the industries where constrained operating environments have enabled bits of autonomy to be applied. Mining is another.

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Precision spraying with a John Deere self-propelled applicator.
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8:46 PM ∙ Dec 30, 2020
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The detail in the eyes amazing me. For some nightmare fuel, check out the Millennium FX animatronic baby, which is useful for long or potentially dangerous scenes.

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Building an animatronic apatosaurus for Jurassic World, by @LegacyEffects.
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10:19 PM ∙ Dec 28, 2020
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Postscript

I’m looking for an American supplier of stamped metal parts, do you know any?

If you enjoyed this newsletter, forward it to friends (or interesting enemies). I am always looking to connect with interesting people and learn about interesting machines—reach out!

—Kane

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