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name Rocketmagnet
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shadowrobot.com
location London, United Kingdom
age 35

Senior Robotics Design Engineer at the Shadow Robot Company, where I have worked for about 20 years now.
Author of The good-looking textured light-sourced bouncy fun smart and stretchy page.
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Robotics: What good robotics software platforms / operating systems are available ?
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Hardware: How to design, prototype, and manufacture a physical product.: I'm designing a part to be made from carbon fibre. How do I decide which types of weave and how many layers?
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Robotics: Does anyone know a good kinematics for a humanoid thumb?
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Robotics: How do I make my PID controller cope with significant backlash in my motor system ?
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Robotics: I have a robot arm with more than three axes. I need to move the tip from A to B, while minimising the torque on all joints. How can I do this?
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Hardware: How to design, prototype, and manufacture a physical product.: What tolerance should I allow on mating injection-moulded plastic parts? The parts are 100mm diameter hemispheres, 1.5mm wall.
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Woodworking: How much pressure is actually required when gluing wood with PVA?
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Hardware: How to design, prototype, and manufacture a physical product.: What easily machinable material has good thermal conductivity, but is also a good electrical insulator?
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Hardware: How to design, prototype, and manufacture a physical product.: How can I achieve a chrome / mirror like finish on a plastic part (machined or moulded) ?
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Fabrication & Manufacturing: I wish to write my own CAM software to generate tool paths for CNC milling. Where can I find details of the algorithms for generating tool paths?
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