A podcast about the designers, engineers and businesses exploring the frontier of digital fabrication. The Edge is produced by Bantam Tools, makers of desktop CNC machines with professional reliability and precision at an affordable price.
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S3E5 – Dom Riccobene: Turning Data Into Sculpture / Vince Ramirez: Fast and Furious
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In this season’s final episode of The Edge, Bre and Zach speak with two of Bantam Tools’ remote residents, Dom Riccobene and Vince Ramirez. Our residents are artists, engineers, and educators, some of whom regularly use CNC machines in their daily work while others are new to CNC all together. In this two-part episode we begin with Dom Riccobene, w…
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S3E4 — 3D Fab Light: A Deep Dive Into Industrial Laser Cutters
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~Plus a visit to the SF Drone School and a look at the X-Class Drone Racing League~ In this episode, we learn about the world of industrial metal laser cutters with the 3D Fab Light team. What initially started as a project at Otherlab to make bicycle frame fabrication easier eventually spun out into a very capable (and highly specialized) 4-axis m…
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S3E3 — Saul Griffith: Otherlab, Engineering for Good & the Future of Private Research Labs
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Plus Ashley Swartz discusses engineering soft robots at Roam RoboticsIn this third episode of The Edge podcast, we sit down with engineer, inventor, and founder of Otherlab Saul Griffith to learn more about the research and ethos driving this independent, San Francisco-based R&D lab. Otherlab is home to a number of interesting initiatives and start…
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S3E2 — Angelo Juras: Autodesk & the Past, Present, and Future of CNC Machining
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Plus Bantam Tools’ Peter Riley on learning CNC In this second episode of season three, Bre and Zach sit down with master machinist Angelo Juras at the Autodesk Pier 9 facility in San Francisco. Angelo has been a machinist since the 80s, when he got his start on NC punched-tape-style milling machines. In his current position at Autodesk as a CAM pro…
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S3E1 – Carly Mick: Kestrel Materials, Soft Goods and Textiles Manufacturing
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~Plus Gerard Rubio on Kniterate, the desktop CNC knitting machineWelcome to Season 3 of The Edge podcast. In this first episode, Bre and Zach dive into the world of soft goods and textiles manufacturing with expert Carly Mick. Carly is the senior manufacturing manager for Kestrel Materials, a startup born out of Otherlab in San Francisco. Kestrel i…
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S2E8 – Alberto Savoia: Lessons in Prototyping & “Pretotyping”
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Plus Scott Miller from Dragon Innovation shares tips for manufacturing at scale In this last episode of Season two, we talk all about prototyping and “pretotyping.” Our guest, Alberto Savoia, is a mathematician and engineer, who among many things led the initial development of Google’s Ad Words. After many successes, Albero had the sobering experie…
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