Parts Department

In this episode, Jem and Justin dive into the world of productivity and organization. They discuss the benefits of the Full Focus Planner and the Nack Day Plan for staying on track. The episode also touches on the new PDX CNC assembly area and Jem's fresh approach to the new year with a focus on stationery. They revisit the impactful lessons from "Delivering Happiness" and "Atomic Habits." The duo also shares their experiences with cash flow challenges and the art of making lukewarm calls. Lastly, they return to their ongoing saga with printers, particularly the X1's frustrating habit of printing in the wrong colors.

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• Full Focus Planner
• Nack Day Plan
• Ghost Post about Assembly Area
• Jem Rolling into new year
• New year, new stationary
• Delivering Happiness
• Atomic Habits, again.
• Summer cash flow woes
• Luke warm calls
• Back to hating printers
• X1 Printing wrong colors

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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem and Justin are back from holiday break. They dive into the challenge of disconnecting, explore radius gauges on Makerworld, and share their latest workshop upgrades. Hear about their experiments with hot wax dipping inspired by honey-making, and Justin's insights from 'The Machine that Changed the World'. Plus, a look at turning off social media, the potential of offline LLMs, and the intriguing world of 3D printed tool steel. Will additive methods replace subtractive? They also discuss learning CAM and the promise of Fusion, hinting at Fusion GPTs.

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Back from Holiday break

• Inability to switch off
• Radius Gauges on Makerworld
• Workshop improvements
• GPT Don attempt
• Hot wax dipping, borrowing from honey industry
• The Machine that Changed the World - Justin read a book!
• Turning off the Gram
• Offline LLMs
• Printing Fools
• 3D Printed Tool Steel (Angus, Makers Muse)
• Additive will replace subtractive?
• Question on Learning CAM
• Fusion 👍👍
• Fusion GPTs?

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem and Justin review 2023 and plan for 2024 - delegating growth, strategic impatience, streamlining operations, new products, improving sales.

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• Year in Review
• Responsible use of materials vs Lean waste
• Plans for 2024
• Jem – Strategic Impatience
• Justin – Delegating Growth
• E-myth Tasks to Positions sheet
• Machines - Wheels off or Renew?
• New Products?
• Deadlines?
• Lots of little projects
• Filament Organization
• Tool Reorg
• Back on Tools
• Solve Sales
• Fire Ourselves
• Jem needs Buttons
• Chatter Sync from CNC Repair man?

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem and Justin dive into CNC advancements with Bambu Handy and RhinoCAM, ponder over Rhino Block vs. Fusion, and discuss US-grown maple ply. They share insights on finding industry experts, discuss a new Langmuir Titan 25T Press brake, and talk about the potential of GPT-4's offline version. They wrap up with a call for listener submissions on 2023 reviews and 2024 plans.

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• Bambu Handy, Handy - Print on the go.
• Rhino Block Hindsight - years wasted? Condiment regret.
• Rhino obsession as R8 comes out, should I dump Fusion in 2024?
• RhinoCAM - choice paralysis - 7 options
• Maple ply US-grown
• Finding people who are better than us at stuff.
• Titan 25T Small Brake 😍 instagram.com/p/C0zHODPOXEk/
• LaserBros
• ROI Calculator - GPT
• ChatGPT Whisper API Text Summarisation
• GPT 4 All - Offline version

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Jem and Justin are back! Babies, configuration tools, how many drugs can you get into a CNC router, and some neat ChatGPT tricks.

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• Laura's Recycled Plastic Chipper
• KittaParts Configurator Beta 
• Dowel Making Machine small version
• $153m CNC Router
• Babies are the Least Lean - cannot automate a baby
• Makemysign - super easy Lean signs for shop?
• Backup Bambu
• GPT Image to Label Printer

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In this episode of Parts Department, Jem and Justin discuss failed products, ongoing improvements in 3D printing, hiring new staff, making progress on workflow systems, using AI to analyse business data, the growth of configurable CAD, and getting coworkers onboard with QR codes.

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• Products that didn't do well that you love
• That desk²
• Whiteboard
• Feel like keep making partial or temporary tools / fixes
• One True Source (GD, FD, AT)
• Source of Product info / Design files
• Airtable, Shopify, Veeqo, Linear
• Podcast recommendation - Heavyweight
• Vividworks Update
• Ask for email after N build time
• Rhino fever continues
• Rhino 8 live
• Just right-click!
• Josh nailing configurations
• OpenAi Announcements - GPTs
• Chatter.dev - Fusion connection
• Fusion 360 > Fusion
• New hire cultural inductions, getting better every time
• QR Code

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Jem and Justin discuss printing progress Jem has made after troubleshooting issues with Bambu PETG filament. They talk about tips for Justin as he prepares for upcoming parental leave and the challenges of documenting processes. Jem shares they've hired a new production operator

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• Bambu Slicer Update from Justin
• Rhino scripting
• Rhino 8 and Fusion both behaving
• Jonny on the GPT Scripting wagon too now
• Revit Scripting - PyRevit
• Tips on Parental Leave
• Procurement Process Documentation
• New hire

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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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In this episode of Parts Department, Jem and Justin cover a range of topics including using AI to generate product images, keeping legacy products going, workflow automation experiments, the power of paper planners, and launching new products.

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• Default diary scorecard
• Archive
• Lightroom Storage challenges? 📸
• AI feedback loop experiments,
• Configurations in Fusion
• Justin’s script might be the one to help solve our workflow issues with custom KittaParts
• May 25, 2023 🤌 - Bambu Slicer at fault?
• It's calendar season - 13 years
• Slite Lights What are your little coloured lights for studio?

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Justin and Jem commiserate about the difficulties of growing their product businesses while still needing to do custom client work to pay the bills. They're impatient with the slow transition and want to steer their companies in new directions. But it's tough when technical problems like Justin's temperamental 3D printer eat up time and mental bandwidth. Still, Jem finds joy tinkering on passion projects in his early mornings. The shopkeeps aired their grievances but remain determined to keep moving forward on the long and winding product road.

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• Struggling with delegation vs control. Assertiveness check.
• PS Power Update
• Free play mornings are back
• Tool Holder Holder - New product drop 🍷
• 100% product overnight vs slooooow burn
• 3D Printing Issues
• Bambu X1E

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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Jem and Justin discuss playing language games with AI assistants, hiring for their workshops, automating workflows, balancing polished vs raw social media content, and ongoing machine maintenance issues.

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• Let's play a game
• A Comic Rip
• make automation (Integromat)
• Veeqo - multichannel ecommerce shipping (FREE)
• Secret Show SS04 - Automate
• Bottlenecks in design detailing
• Job ad live - Production Operator
• PS power filter update
• Bearing failure

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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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Portland, Oregon, USA

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