Part rotation is super confusing. There are like four different rotations in play and error prone. pikkoloassembly.com/blog/26_… To reduce mistakes, operators get quick rotation sanity check after loading parts.

Tested out magnets for holding 0402 in cut tapes steady and boy does it just make everything worse.

From a customer call this morning, "rubidium atomic vapor cell" is probably the coolest combination of words I've heard in a long time.

Ugh 0402 is like glitter

Wrapped up with @Techstars Mentor Madness! About 80 meetings in two weeks with some super helpful people. Some directly relevant and in industry, but you never know where great advice will come from. Time to get back to the shop!

As we grow our engineering team, the biggest issue my monorepo. Look, I'm not going to die on this hill, but I will fake a coma on this hill.

Saturday night, building tables.

The hardest part of embedded is figuring out which of these USB-C cables have data lines.

Pikkolo is part of Techstars Boulder! (can finally post this) Techstars has meant a lot to me, and got my career started in Boulder startups. Beyond excited to run through- as a founder this time- and as part of the original program's restart. @Techstars

Pikkolo's got a new facility! Time to fire up Factory 1.

Why use open source hardware? We're training our pick and place machines to identify new situations, handle themselves, and automatically retrain for it.

ugh this stuff is like sci-fi glitter

$2000 of Galden. Pretty sure this chemical's only function is to have a boiling point of 234 C.