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AND the right click + drafg to rotate the model - so much more efficient that clicking on the mini cube

Discovering Onshape keyboard shortcuts feels like finding a $50 bill in your old pants - did not expect it there, but boy am I happy

The future is now and it's accelerating, these robot hands are a masterclass of combining evolution and engineering https://twitter.com/BerntBornich/status/2075253825494237660

https://learn.onshape.com/learning-paths/introduction-to-cad - going through this, loving it

maybe it's the beginner naiveness but CAD is not so hard, just a very logical way to design physical things. onshape tutorials ftw

one good online resource i'm slowly going through that AI recommended is https://natureofcode.com/ - skimming through but the physics explanations are very good, plus code implementation for each law helps grasp it much better. in chapter 3 still, cruising along

the book - https://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-hands-electronics-enthusiast/dp/1680456873

Fwiw the Make: Electronics book from Charles Platt is really good, clear and funny. Doing the experiments now. the ohm's law and other electronics axioms don't seem so haunting anymore. I assume there's a humbling moment coming in very soon once I start doing experiments...

The fuller story of why is here, if you're curious: https://granularity.ai/about

Spent a few decades building software and ML systems, all self-taught. Lately I can't stop thinking about building real, physical things, reindustrialization trend caught up with me. So I decided to learn hardware from scratch, in public, writing down the whole messy thing as I go. Bought a Husky bench, and a lot of wires, transistors, soldering iron, and then some.