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Japan twitter has taught me that I’m not taking my hobbies seriously enough
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Wd-40 is not a substitute for grease, your boat lift may only last 50 years
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If you finally go to China this year for some factory tours, don’t just go on a bilingual guided curated BYD factory smartglasses startup four seasons huaqiangbei kfc luxe 6-seater didi ciggies at a nice harbin restaurant kweichow-ass tour See some oily dangerous factory floors
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2017: Ben Katz drops MIT cheetah actuator design 2019: Ben joins Boston Dynamics 2020: Cheetah actuators proliferate in China 2024: Atlas switches from hydraulic to electric actuators 2025: this
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I’ve never regretted putting an IMU in a thing
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Perpetual-motion free-energy ZPE dudes have an aesthetic that you get good at recognizing when working on motors. Sometimes they trick me for a second but you can see they’re vibe engineering topologies while Faraday groans in the corner. Usually nice+weird people IRL.