"BaconSandwich is tasty." (baconsandwich)
05/17/2018 at 20:25 • Filed to: None
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"BaconSandwich is tasty." (baconsandwich)
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Not sure if anyone here has seen this series of videos before:
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The guy has a ton of experience and a lot of neat tricks. I’ve slowly been working my way through the videos. I still haven’t figured out exactly where he works, but it sounds like he’s worked on some interesting stuff!
Some seriously high accuracy stuff here:
In the mean time, I’m lucky to nail a few boards together and be accurate within a few mm...
Ready for an adventure!
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
05/17/2018 at 20:56 |
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this is a little hypnotizing.....
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BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Ready for an adventure!
05/17/2018 at 22:05 |
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The whole series is good!
Svend
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
05/18/2018 at 05:25 |
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I still haven’t figured out exactly where he works, but it sounds like he’s worked on some interesting stuff!
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An entrepreneur’s adventures in not seeing the light.
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I was born in 1947 and grew up in Israel, graduating as an electrical engineer without suspecting I would spend many years in optics. In 1973, after completing my mandatory army service (Even the Israeli Army makes mistakes.), I moved to Vancouver, Canada.
I was a bit surprised to find very little high tech here compared to what I was familiar with in Israel. All I knew about Vancouver was that it is beautiful and not cold (In the pre-Internet days, I picked up this information from an atlas, based on the isotherms.). The Canadian Embassy in Tel Aviv was no help. They just sent me the standard tourist brochure emphasizing the endless wilderness of British Columbia, not exactly what I wanted to hear when arriving as a penniless immigrant. On the other hand, I knew that if a million people could make a living in Vancouver, so could one more.
I spent the first few years as a hardware designer (DSP and Telecom) at MDA, one of the best companies in Vancouver. At the time, shortly after my first son was born, I was looking for a project I could do at home, so I could spend more time with my infant son. (Such ideas come only with your first born.)
DIY film recorder
MDA was buying high-speed film recorders to record satellite imagery for about $400,000 apiece, so I boldly told the management I could design a recorder that would do a better job for a tenth of the price. Not being biased by any knowledge of the subject, I proposed a fresh approach.
The management, free of similar biases, agreed and gave me one year. After a crash course in optics, I changed the design, but surprisingly managed to deliver a shippable prototype in 12 months with only one person working with me. I had a small metalworking workshop at home, many of the machines home-built, and this allowed me to fabricate most of the parts for the prototype myself.
I now have a wonderful CNC machine shop at home, but I don’t have the boundless enthusiasm of those days. However, I still build all my prototypes myself, finding it to be faster than sending out drawings and waiting for parts.
There is a lot more to the piece above
Dan Gelbart
Dan Gelbart is technology adviser to Kardium Inc. and a co-founder of Creo, now part of Eastman Kodak Co., Cymbolic Sciences, and MDI. Often credited as the father of modern computer-to-plate technology, Gelbart has more than 100 U.S. patents and has twice received the British Columbia (Canada) Science Council Gold Medal.
Gelbart is an adjunct professor at University of British Columbia and had the honor on 16 May 2010 of being the first person to activate Ted Maiman’s original ruby laser since Maiman’s death in 2007. He demonstrated Maiman’s laser during a symposium at Simon Fraser University (Canada) celebrating the laser’s golden anniversary. See a video of the demonstration .