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Léo gives me far too much credit. I don't know what planted the seed but I suspect it was already there. I continue to believe the future is going to be OK.
This cabinet door might not look like much, but ever since I visited @amer_icon I've been fascinated by manufacturing.
I don't know much about machines, but after a lot of testing I set up a Grokbot CNC agent that knows every bit and material I have, and the limits of this i-Carver. It modelled this door from a photo, built the toolpaths for my one 1/8" bit, and simulated every cut before it touched wood.
The owner of this machine does kitchen and bathroom remodeling. Next I'm taking on an AXYZ Z5 he has sitting around and doesn't know how to use. I've started an app where he enters his measurements and requirements, and AI designs the cabinets, nests the parts on sheets and builds the files.
Path Robotics will be bigger than Amazon some day. I remember the first time I saw what they were doing and my first thought was that they would murder me if they went into machining.
We just raised $300M at a $2.45B valuation in our Series E, led by Georgian!
I learned to weld at 8 years old in my family’s garage in Ohio. My dad eventually turned that garage into a manufacturing company in Warren, Ohio. I saw firsthand how difficult it was to build a manufacturing business in the US. The challenge wasn't product demand. It was production.
When Alex and I started Path, we spoke with more than 100 US manufacturers. We heard the same problem at nearly every shop: “Our backlog is growing, but our production is stagnant.”
Traditional automation wasn't built for the high-mix, high-variability, unstructured environments where so much of American manufacturing happens. We started Path to solve that problem.
Revenue is up 17x in the last 18 months, and we're stepping on the gas. That means getting our technology into the hands of more manufacturers, faster. It also means taking Obsidian beyond welding and into the rest of the production line, starting in 2027.
Thank you to our customers for believing in what's possible and partnering with us to build the future of manufacturing.
And thank you to the team at Path. Product breakthroughs, revenue growth, and market expansion are all outputs of an incredible group of people relentlessly pushing us forward.
Onward! 🚀
Full story here: lnkd.in/epaYvcWv
Adding to the tasteful toolpath library.
How dare you ask what it cost, have you looked at it??
Tasteful toolpath? I'll allow it. These parts had a callout to be surface ground (304SS plate stock, waterjet cut). Kind of a pain since 304 isn't magnetic to any significant degree. Checked with engineering, they just wanted them flat. A little busy, but I like it.
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Guhring makes a fine drill. This 0.46mm 5D drill will make about 250 holes in this moderately difficult situation. I try to keep the runout <0.001" (0.025mm) but otherwise it's just a hole drilling operation. Spotting about 0.002" deep, very consistently in our UMC.
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With all stainless steel clamps, sometimes it's hard to tell the part from the fixture.
This one has definitely been a challenge for my protégé. I've managed to humble him two weeks in a row with parts that are deceptively complicated.
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I'm not going to lie and say that I enjoyed this. But it ended up being one of the better moments of the day. The cookie company let me keep putting this off until the old set broke. Well, that was today. Terrible timing as I had a area commission meeting to go to this evening.
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The 1/8" radius on the end here still feels excessive to me. I want someone to at least debate whether they want to risk gutting themselves while crossing my custom machined fence.
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I'm known as the CNC mill wizard so new guys are always surprised when they see me on the manual lathe. Brother I've been on a manual lathe since I was 12 years old.
That doesn't mean I have any business running one but when I need something done, get out of my way!
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Parametric modeling enables parametric manufacturing. Change my mind.
Proof of concept. Customer pickup in 5 hours, +-0.5 hours from the time of order. Caveat, it's not The Part. It's a simple key. But it's a part holding up a production line in Texas until UPS delivers.
A Halloween party at my sister's house that is completely surrounded by data centers under construction was actually spooky. Boarded up houses for miles made the drive there feel like I was in an apocalyptic movie. I'm no NIMBY, but no one will convince me this is right.
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