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Industrial Vending Machine

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While Chris was away traveling the world, Jon got a tour behind the scenes at Veritas, a tool making company based in Canada’s Capital. From the first all metal lathe ever made to building CNC machines at home, this episode is all about tools.

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  • Control Plane We mentioned the macOS app, Control Plane, in the last episode, unfortunately it is no longer under active development
  • Cycloid Drawing Machine An advanced take on the Spirograph, by Joe Freedman
  • Making It Podcast A trio of makers talk about creativity, design, & making things with your hands
  • Jacques de Vaucanson
  • Vaucanson’s Metal Lathe A nearly 300 year-old machine that “made everything”
  • James Watt Micrometer What is thought to be the world’s oldest surviving micrometer, reputedly crafted by James Watt
  • The Perfectionists A book we talked about back in episode 23, that shares some parallels with the Vaucanson video above
  • Lee Valley A much loved Canadian company, founded in 1978 by Leonard Lee, Lee Valley came up in our very first episode of Off Hours
  • Veritas Tools Founded by Leonard Lee to craft products for Lee Valley, Jon recently got a tour around the manufacturing facilities of Veritas Tools in Ottawa
  • Beamer Lasers Veritas employs a Beamer FXL22 to inscribe their tools
  • Mitutoyo Precision measuring tools
  • Mitutoyo Surftest A tool to objectively evaluate surface finish
  • Surface Plate
  • CMMs A look at an automated Coordinate Measuring Machine in action
  • Maudslay’s Lord Chancellor A bench micrometer crafted by English Industrialist, Henry Maudslay
  • Autocrib Small scale, automated inventory management employed by Veritas to help manage CNC bits & other small equipment
  • Remstar A vertical carousel system for inventory management, particularly handy for small parts like those used in watchmaking
  • WALL-E’s Wall A clip of WALL-E’s vertical carousel system in the Pixar film, WALL-E
  • “Guns. Lots of guns.” The “inventory” scene from The Matrix
  • Rolex 904L Stainless Steel This short video, now over a decade old, offers a brief glimpse into a small fraction of Rolex’s inventory system
  • TE-CO Tour A a look behind the scenes at TE-CO with NYC CNC
  • Terry Fox
  • Tapmatic Deceptively simple, but effective tools that make quick work of tapping threads in a manufacturing environment
  • Flexarm Maker of pneumatic tapping arms, like the ones Chris mentioned
  • Busy Bee Tools
  • Walther-Trowal Makers of industrial scale tumbling polishers
  • Haas
  • Fanuc
  • Matsuura
  • Hurco
  • Göckel
  • Makerspace North Chris gave a talk, alongside Rich Loen, on how to make your own CNC machine recently at Makerspace North
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