Episode 147

147 - You have to make bad things

Jem and Justin explore where new products come from: solving personal shop problems or tackling custom work. Justin rapidly builds a label-making tool, while Jem gets back to wrestling with his sanding robots. The chat shifts to their complex feelings on AI's power and future.

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The early mushy design process
All five sick in a tent
Conf data
Grasshopper success ꘎
Relief of 12 hour workday ꘎
Cloudflare scraping paywall
Penta Solo cancelled
Labeldumper.com
Lots of design mental space talk
CNC sander tool
Isaac Sim - Robot Sim

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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Justin Brouillette

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Parts Department

Justin Brouillette (Portland CNC) and Jem Freeman (Like Butter) discuss CNC machines, their product design and manufacturing businesses, and every kind of tool that they fancy.

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Jem Freeman

Co-founder and director of Like Butter, a CNC focussed timber design and manufacturing business in their purpose-built solar-powered workshop. Castlemaine, VIC, Australia.

Justin Brouillette

Owner of PDX CNC