MachinePix Weekly #57

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

Aug 23, 2021

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

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.

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.

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.

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