Alex Morgan @AlexAssets

GPT-6 made GTA 6 beach house using MCP tools! Running Astra only through Blender MCP didn’t work for me, since it was mainly using primitive shapes to build the assets. Now, with @Atlas3DAI workflows and Tripo, that changed! Initially, I thought Tripo P2 would be the way to go: low-poly results straight into Blender. I tried it, but I didn’t get the results I wanted. Don’t get me wrong, P2 is great and a big improvement over P1, I just wanted more detail for this project. So I ended up using Tripo 3.1. First, I needed a good starting point. I gave Astra some concept art and YouTube links, and it generated great reference images to work with. With Atlas workflows, I used those references to generate images for all the individual parts. Using Atlas MCP, I exported them and automatically renamed everything based on the prompts. The next step was feeding the images into Atlas Batch Composer so it could run all the 3D generations in one go. I asked Astra to optimize the generated assets to either 5K or 1K triangles, depending on their form and size. After a few tests, Astra made the process faster and faster. I gave it all 70 high-poly assets and let it run. Astra then took care of the whole build. It imported the optimized assets into Blender and used the reference images to start recreating the house. I only had to give it directional feedback twice and manually rescale a few things. There were still a lot of parts, though. Each beam was a separate object, and I knew that wasn’t ideal if I wanted to export the house to UEFN or Unreal Engine. So I asked Astra to export only the unique assets. Then, using UEFN MCP, it rebuilt everything 1:1 while reusing modular parts like beams and windows. I really enjoyed watching it place all the pieces in UEFN, almost like watching a timelapse of the house being built!

For suitable geometries, 3-axis CNC machining provides a straightforward way to create the features needed for practical mechanical applications. What matters most in your parts — function, fit, or lead time? #3AxisCNC #MechanicalEngineering #PrecisionMachining

Robot components built around rotational motion depend on more than simply being round. CNC turning helps control cylindrical geometry around a common axis, supporting more predictable fit and rotation within the mechanism. #CNCTurning #Robotics #PrecisionMachining

Specialty lenses for nuclear monitoring #NuclearMonitoring #RadiationResistantLenses #SpecialtyOptics #ResolveOptics engineering-update.co.uk/2026/09/17/spe…

its all metal? always has been

Kenneth Cassel @KennethCassel

2 days ago

did you know the US spends more on fabricated metal products than B2B SaaS?

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German Machine Tool Orders Climb 15% in Early 2026 👉 automation-fair.com/german-machine… “We appear to be past the low point, but calling this a genuine turnaround would be premature. The next few months will tell us whether this recovery has staying power,” said Bernhard Geis

2 private launchers joined in on the effort of SpaceSail constellation in past 2 days. 1st was ZQ-2E from Landscape which lifted 10 satellites to space lifting total to 248. This was followed by gravity-1 from Orienspace's sea launcher for another 8. B4 this, all the major launches were done by LM rocket series, so this not only added private launchers to the fold, but also new launch location w/ Oriental Spacesport' barge. We are at 256 launched sats now & still need a few more b4 324.

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What will AI data centers look like in next years? They'll stop being classic server rooms and turn into dynamic power factories. Instead of air cooling and a constant power draw, their foundation will be three things: liquid cooling (often over 40°C), a continuous feedback loop with the power grid, and millisecond-level dynamic GPU workload management. It means no more designing data centers for peak demand headroom. The old model of booking a gigawatt of power and waiting for a voltage spike is just burning billions in the AI era. Most of the time, that power just sits unused. The real revolution is treating the building, power, and code as a single living organism. If the grid is overloaded, the data center automatically sheds low-priority tasks and drops power draw before the city blows a fuse. Then there's physics: air cooling at this chip density is like trying to cool an electric kettle with a USB fan. Switching to a closed loop of hot liquid and dynamic power supplies yields up to 40% more compute out of the exact same power budget. The winner won't be whoever spends the most on hardware, but whoever squeezes the most tokens out of every single megawatt. x.com/nvidia/status/…

China's Auto mkt for Sep thru 9/13. Sales are down 23% YoY & up 4% MoM NEVs are 362k retail so far, -10% YoY & wholesale 411k, up 1% YoY NEV penetration for retail is 70.3% & 74.7% for wholesale. Just complete collapse of ICE.

I'm getting so into toon shaders in threejs, this is such a great aesthetic for scifi and runs well in the browser

Genuinely curious -- for anyone who thinks that $260 for a one-off stainless steel part is too expensive, how do you think this is machined? Do you think it's magic? Do you think it takes no time? If someone asked you to make one of these, would you do it for $11? How would you possibly make any profit? Just think about it for a second, can you even buy material for that price? I know the reality of China's prices on machined parts. It is insane. It is seemingly impossible, yet they do it time & time again. This is not China. You try to pull that here and you go out of business. Even if you're a hobbyist with the material sitting on the shelf & time on your hands, $11 is ridiculous. It's a good thought exercise, though, what would it take to match those prices? Is it truly impossible? Off the top of my head: - you can't charge for programming or setup - you need special material pricing & huge stock - you need high speed machines at the ready - you need fast & extensive fixturing & programming capability - automation from the order to the shop floor to inspection - you can't charge for finishing What else? Can AI & robots change this equation? How could a company like this ever exist without heavy subsidization? No matter what it becomes a race to the bottom as other companies pop up to replicate what you've done. That's not a race I want to participate in.

SAWT @AI_in_LEO

2 days ago

Everyone telling me to split the CNC machined cigarette holder on the flat axis was correct. I got the cost down another $2 to just $11 shipped from China. (or $260 from SCS in the US of A) It also leaves the back side open to engraving which is something I want to play with.

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🚀 The future of PLM is agentic. And it’s coming to Autodesk Fusion Manage. At #AU2026, we unveiled a first look at an entirely new agentic PLM experience designed to flip the traditional PLM model. Instead of teams adapting to the system, imagine PLM that adapts to the way teams work. More intuitive, adaptive, connected, and intelligent. Bringing product context, people, and next actions together so teams can spend less time managing PLM and more time moving product development forward. This is the next evolution of Fusion Manage. And we’re excited to show you what’s coming. 👉 Read the announcement and see agentic PLM in action: autodesk.com/products/fusio…

Geely Galaxy launched its new offroad SUV Battleship-700 yesterday @ 199.8 to 389.8k RMB. More than box car, this very appealing vs Tank & Bao series of SUVs. It had 10000 orders in just 9 min. So, well done, Geely!

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I think @AsideAI AI browser/harness is one of the most powerful consumer AI tools you could possibly use with your agents, wherever they are Aside MCP exposes deep browser use tools with credentials that make any agent much more powerful

Never waste a good engineered crisis

Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid

2 days ago

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The more you try to keep people in, the more they’ll want to get out.

Financial Times @FT

3 days ago

China tightens control of overseas travel in sweeping new law ft.trib.al/wKIvlnW

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If you want to 10x your output with Claude, master these 10 workflows nobody talks about (save this):

YouTuber @MouldS hypothesized that a circular loop of chain would exhibit circumferential waves as it rotated in the absence of external forces, flowing through its own shape. In gravity, this creates the chain fountain effect, popularized with his science videos. Aboard the ISS, I helped test his theory! These loops were made from beaded chain and our EVA French clips used to tie things down during spacewalks. I wore nitrile gloves to prevent the chain from sticking to my fingers. It took many tries to produce this! A full video of our findings is now posted to his channel, which I have linked in the comments.

My second interview with @Keller, Co-Founder and CEO of @Zipline. 0:11 Scaling to 1 million deliveries a day 4:08 Creating a magical customer experience 7:20 The Fermi Paradox for hardware companies 12:39 Staying ahead of the company 14:31 What won’t change as Zipline scales 17:37 Finding people who will tolerate a bad customer experience 20:51 Strangest challenges: nesting, hail, solar weather 24:12 Selling drones vs selling delivery 28:10 Limiting customer growth 31:46 Attacking the biggest constraint 37:07 Giving the Earth back to humans

🧑‍🔬 ‘The lifespan of cells is one of the holy grails of engineered living materials’ An Interview with biomedicine and smart materials expert Prof. Dr Andrés Díaz Lantada from IMDEA Materials and @La_UPM. sciencemediahub.eu/article/2026/0… #ESMH, @EP_ScienceTech