MachinePix Weekly #57

Next week: Andrew Zolty of studio Breakfast. This week's most popular post was a bougie bathtub 🛀

The interview with Andrew Zolty of studio Breakfast will be published next week!

The most popular post this week was a decadent bathtub. If you find yourself in Granges-Paccot, Switzerland, you can stop by the Auberge aux 4 Vents (“Four Winds Inn”) and ask for the Cupidon suite.

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Roll-out bathtub at the Auberge aux 4 Vents hotel

I’m always looking for interesting people to interview, have anyone in mind?

—Kane

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The Week in Review

This micromanipulator is fully mechanical. If you go down the rabbit hole of digitally-controlled micromanipulators, you can get down to 100nm movement resolution—or roughly 0.1% the width of a human hair.

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Singer Instruments Mk1 Micromanipulator scales down hand movements 4x.

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Better views of the underground bin system here (with a different truck). There’s no garbage day in Amsterdam, you just take out some trash with you every time you step out.

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Geesinknorba GPM III rear loader truck lifting an underground waste bin in Groningen, the Netherlands.

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It seems like the right flap makes an extraneous movement at the end; I wonder if it’s an accident or if it’s a “check” motion to ensure the folded t-shirt is within the dimensions of the bag.

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Speedy-T t-shirt folding machine by Chiossi e Cavazzuti.

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Postscript

I can’t believe it took me this long to try this Taiwanese x New York cuisine. Given to me during a visit to the offices of The Prepared.

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scallion pancake bacon egg cheese is the kind of fusion cuisine we need. Thanks for lunch @pencerw

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

—Kane