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#405 – An Interview with Spencer Wright
- The Prepared. It’s both a weekly newsletter and an occasional podcast
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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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