The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

A weekly show about the trends in the electronic industry.

  • For Us
    • Donate
    • Link Here!
    • Suggest
      • Guest Suggestions
      • Story Suggestions
      • Feature My Workbench!
    • Advertising
  • For You
    • Episode Index
    • Guest Episodes
    • Buy Stuff
  • About
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
You are here: Home / Guest Appearance / #405 – An Interview with Spencer Wright

#405 – An Interview with Spencer Wright

Play

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

 

  • The Prepared. It’s both a weekly newsletter and an occasional podcast
    • 0:02
  • Spencer claims he is a fake engineer since he was an english major
    • 0:02
  • Grew up in the Hamptons doing construction
    • 0:06
  • Dealing with subcontractors in the construction industry
    • 0:06
  • Custom bicycle frames for $2K
    • 0:07
  • Mahogany experience from the construction industry led to a job building custom robot doors for a beach house.
    • 0:09
  • 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)
    • 0:10
  • Later they brought in Todd Bailey to do the control electronics (Todd was a guest on this show on episode 194)
    • 0:10
  • This trio decided to take the MIT online electronics course, 6.002x
    • 0:12
  • Zach and Spencer built The Public Radio together, which they are still selling.
    • 0:14
  • This is made and programmed by Worthington Assembly
    • 0:14
  • Sourcing – finding parts for the robot doors
    • 0:18
  • They worked out of an old Northrup Grumman facility that used to make jets
    • 0:19
  • Choice paralysis
    • 0:25
  • Spencer’s full time job is at nTopology
    • 0:27
  • They do 3D printing software for non-traditional uses.
    • 0:27
  • 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.
    • 0:28
  • DMLS
    • 0:29
  • Wrote about the titanium / metal powderbed fusion
    • 0:30
  • CAD software designed for printing implants
    • 0:33
  • Porous hip cup that bones can grow into.
    • 0:35
  • Precision Castparts Corp
    • 0:37
  • Acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2015
    • 0:37
  • Flyknit shoes – Nike
    • 0:39
  • Trend spotting
    • 0:42
  • Reducing number of tollgates to bring a product to market
    • 0:43
  • Procuring parts more easily – most software isn’t great
    • 0:43
  • MFG.com
    • 0:46
  • Localization of manufacturing
    • 0:48
  • US vs China
    • 0:48
  • Insourcing manufacturing of the Public Radio
    • 0:54
  • Work instructions using Tulip
    • 0:54
  • Spencer talked to Rony from Tulip on The Prepared podcast
    • 0:56
  • Spencer uses PartsBox.io to search for parts in his personal inventory
    • 1:00
  • Find Spencer on most social media channels as pencerw
    • 1:04
  • ThePrepared.org
    • 1:05
  • nTopology.com
    • 1:05

Comments

  1. ben says

    September 6, 2018 at 4:24 pm

    Reminsent of the “Pedantic or Andrantic” show.. what’s the words he uses to describe his background.. oovrah? ersat?

    • Dentaku says

      September 7, 2018 at 3:16 pm

      It was oeuvre, which is a french word that pretty much means your body of work or your life’s work.

  2. anon says

    September 20, 2018 at 9:44 pm

    There’s no “u” in Northrop.

Trackbacks

  1. An Interview with Chris Denney | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast says:
    October 14, 2018 at 10:12 pm

    […] Dunham and Spencer Wright have both been on the show, they worked with Chris to get the Public Radio […]

Copyright © 2023