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An Interview with Spencer Wright

Episode Ep 405 September 3, 2018 1 hr 7 min

An Interview with Spencer Wright

From The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

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Spencer claims he is a fake engineer since he was an english major
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Grew up in the Hamptons doing construction
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Dealing with subcontractors in the construction industry
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Custom bicycle frames for $2K
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Mahogany experience from the construction industry led to a job building custom robot doors for a beach house.
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This is where he brought in his co-host on the prepared Zach Dunham to do audio design (Zach was a guest on this show on episode 350)
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Later they brought in Todd Bailey to do the control electronics (Todd was a guest on this show on episode 194)
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This trio decided to take the MIT online electronics course, 6.002x
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Zach and Spencer built The Public Radio together, which they are still selling.
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This is made and programmed by Worthington Assembly
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Sourcing - finding parts for the robot doors
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They worked out of an old Northrup Grumman facility that used to make jets
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Choice paralysis
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Spencer's full time job is at nTopology
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They do 3D printing software for non-traditional uses.
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We previously talked a little about 3D printing for non-traditional (rocket building at Relativity Space) uses with Brent and Bryce a couple episodes ago.
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DMLS
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Wrote about the titanium / metal powderbed fusion
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CAD software designed for printing implants
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Porous hip cup that bones can grow into.
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Precision Castparts Corp
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Acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2015
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Flyknit shoes - Nike
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Trend spotting
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Reducing number of tollgates to bring a product to market
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Procuring parts more easily - most software isn't great
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MFG.com
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Localization of manufacturing
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US vs China
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Insourcing manufacturing of the Public Radio
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Work instructions using Tulip
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Spencer talked to Rony from Tulip on The Prepared podcast
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Spencer uses PartsBox.io to search for parts in his personal inventory
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Find Spencer on most social media channels as pencerw
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ThePrepared.org
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nTopology.com
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