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"Customers will upload a part and everything downstream will be manufactured autonomously within the next 12 months."
Our founder & CEO Erik Palitsch in the @latimes. We're building the factory that lets hardware companies scale from one part to thousands. Don't sleep on @freeform_future.
latimes.com/b2b/ai-technol…
#DefenseTech #Manufacturing #Reindustrialization #PhysicalAI
Our founder & CEO Erik Palitsch in the @latimes. We're building the factory that lets hardware companies scale from one part to thousands. Don't sleep on @freeform_future.
latimes.com/b2b/ai-technol…
#DefenseTech #Manufacturing #Reindustrialization #PhysicalAI
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Such a great take. We often talk about the tension between creativity and physics here at Freeform. The world of engineering is constrained by the boundaries of the physical world and how we use those constraints to our advantage is where the creativity comes through.
good brands exist at the intersection of contradictions their audience feels caught between
ex:
- stripe: rigorous and romantic
- patagonia: chill and ambitious
- linear: obsessive and serene
- gohar world: surrealist and functional
- nike: rebellious and disciplined
good brands do not resolve that tension: instead, they make it feel possible to be both. that’s what make them resonate on some deep somatic level
and the cult brands go beyond relatability and into some form of new identity creation
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Amen. You could argue we have several technological and data-driven moats, but by far our most valuable one is the brilliant group of people we have, driven by our mission.
When push comes to shove, it’s your people that make your company great.
When push comes to shove, it’s your people that make your company great.
“There is no moat.”
But moats are everywhere:
Ambition.
Taste.
Agency.
Curiosity.
Judgment.
Courage.
Obsession.
Persistence.
Integrity.
Patience.
This era belongs to those who refuse to be mediocre.
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the white house just declared our dependence on imported robots and industrial machinery a national security threat.
no new tariffs yet. trade negotiations come first.
the bigger point: rebuilding american industry means building the machines that make everything else.
no new tariffs yet. trade negotiations come first.
the bigger point: rebuilding american industry means building the machines that make everything else.
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Kelvin has worked on cars, rockets, aircraft, and satellites. Now he’s building the printers that make those machines possible at scale.
Galvos pointing to single-digit microradians. 8 kHz scans. One clock cycle, factory-wide.
Your move EEs.
freeform.co/careers#electr…
Galvos pointing to single-digit microradians. 8 kHz scans. One clock cycle, factory-wide.
Your move EEs.
freeform.co/careers#electr…
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Optimism is the key word. Picture a world where ideas become physical reality fast.
There’s no LLM for the physical world. You have to build that technology from the ground up. Speed and control over manufacturing unlock the next step in human progress.
There’s no LLM for the physical world. You have to build that technology from the ground up. Speed and control over manufacturing unlock the next step in human progress.
The optimistic Science fiction novels depict a future of variety and abundance, not mass-produced sameness.
Unique cars. Different buildings. Factories on Earth and Off Planet, producing anything needed as fast as we can imagine it.
@EdwardMehr of Machina and @ErikPalitsch of t the factory could become in the exciting optimistic future.
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Verilog. Power electronics. Analog. High-speed digital. For Kelvin, that’s a normal week as an EE at @freeform_future.
Everything is vertically integrated, so you design the architecture and build it across the whole machine.
Senior EEs, come own the whole stack. g #fpga
Everything is vertically integrated, so you design the architecture and build it across the whole machine.
Senior EEs, come own the whole stack. g #fpga
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A lot of suits are raising money to scale technology they don’t fundamentally understand.
Innovation takes technical founders leading the way. @EdwardMehr and @ErikPalitsch get into why leaders need to be technical experts to transform modern industry. cc: @MachinaLabs_
Innovation takes technical founders leading the way. @EdwardMehr and @ErikPalitsch get into why leaders need to be technical experts to transform modern industry. cc: @MachinaLabs_
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If we put as much energy into inventing new technology as we did in scaling legacy systems, we'd be in a much better position to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. New technology is the answer to reaching the frontier.
Putting an iPad next to a 50-year-old machine doesn't make it advanced manufacturing.
We've digitized the interfaces, polished the factory floors, and automated some individual processes. But the fundamental physics and economics of metal manufacturing haven't changed nearly uture CEO @ErikPalitsch points out in his conversation with @EdwardMehr: Progress will be defined by how much we can produce with the same energy, time, and resources.
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Compare the first Raptor to the latest and it looks like parts disappeared. They didn’t. The complexity moved inside, and advanced manufacturing made that possible.
@EdwardMehr and @ErikPalitsch on what people miss about the value of 3D printing. cc: @MachinaLabs_
@EdwardMehr and @ErikPalitsch on what people miss about the value of 3D printing. cc: @MachinaLabs_
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Break every problem down to first principles. The old ways no longer serve what the future needs.
@MachinaLabs_ founder @EdwardMehr and @ErikPalitsch break down what @SpaceX taught them and how those lessons apply to the hard problems we’re solving today.
@MachinaLabs_ founder @EdwardMehr and @ErikPalitsch break down what @SpaceX taught them and how those lessons apply to the hard problems we’re solving today.
$57 of steel vs a $2,000 machined part.
Where did the other $1,943 go?
@freeform_future CEO @ErikPalitsch joins our CEO @EdwardMehr to unpack the first-principles thinking behind SpaceX and why being willing to blow up an engine was part of the learning process.
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What does a factory look like when the boundaries between operations disappear?
Sensing and control span every step. Parts move as one continuous process. The factory is the machine.
@ErikPalitsch and @EdwardMehr dig into it at @MachinaLabs_.
Full discussion👇🏽
Sensing and control span every step. Parts move as one continuous process. The factory is the machine.
@ErikPalitsch and @EdwardMehr dig into it at @MachinaLabs_.
Full discussion👇🏽
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Everyone wants to be physical AI. Very few are generating the physical data that justifies the term.
Without it, you’re riding the bandwagon. The future belongs to software and hardware built together from day one. @ErikPalitsch @EdwardMehr
Full episode in the comments.
Without it, you’re riding the bandwagon. The future belongs to software and hardware built together from day one. @ErikPalitsch @EdwardMehr
Full episode in the comments.
America doesn't need to rebuild the factories of the 1950s. It needs to invent the factories of the future.
@EdwardMehr and @freeform_future CEO @ErikPalitsch discuss reindustrialization, lessons from SpaceX, outmaneuvering China, and the future of physical AI.
Full discussion 👇
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If your “physical AI” is only trained on simulation, it’s not physical AI. Sim doesn’t have porosity. Sim doesn’t have thermal drift. Sim doesn’t have a bad batch of material.
Real data comes from your own machines making real parts. Everyone else is grabbing the words, shipping hollow marketing, and diluting the term for the companies actually doing the work.
#advancedmanufacturing #physicalAI
Real data comes from your own machines making real parts. Everyone else is grabbing the words, shipping hollow marketing, and diluting the term for the companies actually doing the work.
#advancedmanufacturing #physicalAI
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For years, additive couldn’t make it past prototyping. The process wasn’t repeatable, the parts were hard to certify, and the economics never worked at volume.
The new generation of 3D printing fixes those problems at the root, with smarter process control, more efficient throughput, and consistent production-grade parts. That’s why this is the moment. The technology finally matches the demand, and the government needs manufacturing capacity it can’t get from legacy supply chains.
forbes.com/sites/zitaball…?
The new generation of 3D printing fixes those problems at the root, with smarter process control, more efficient throughput, and consistent production-grade parts. That’s why this is the moment. The technology finally matches the demand, and the government needs manufacturing capacity it can’t get from legacy supply chains.
forbes.com/sites/zitaball…?
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38 lasers. Real-time scheduling. A three-day print that can’t survive a single crash.
Sam Secondo writes the software that decides which lasers fire, and where, on @freeform_future's printers. On the edge, the only layer between you and molten metal is your own software.
edManufacturing #softwareengineering
Sam Secondo writes the software that decides which lasers fire, and where, on @freeform_future's printers. On the edge, the only layer between you and molten metal is your own software.
edManufacturing #softwareengineering
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