referencing prior art is good btw, unfortunately our competitors don't do it :D

@mntmn Most of your competitors aren't even a fraction as open as you are anyway. The enclosure's grid is one of the more exciting aspects of the next even if it also looks sleek and modern.

@mntmn Novena was also referencing prior art! @bunnie used a Peek Array, designed by Nadya Peek.

@th @mntmn @bunnie I hadn't heard of this person before, they seem to have made a quite a ton of super interesting projects https://web.archive.org/web/20241014141658/http://infosyncratic.nl/projects/

@liaizon @th @mntmn Lots of interesting research projects from Nadya Peek over the years. I remember reading about her research projects in the past, via a few friends who had known her at MIT.

“Her work focuses on unconventional digital fabrication tools, small scale automation, networked control systems, and advanced manufacturing.”
https://www.hcde.washington.edu/peek

OSHWA (Open Source Hardware Association) also has a Board Member profile page for her. https://oshwa.org/team/nadya-peek/

@autiomaa @liaizon @th cool, thanks for the links!

@liaizon @th @mntmn Nadya Peek is the best! She taught me a lot of the tricks I know about how to make robots.

@mntmn MNT really feels like a friendly community of hardware tinkerers rather than a top-bottom company.

Maybe that's because it's still quite a small company, or something :>

@fun yeah, and it's not supposed to become large. we just want to survive (ideally though at a level where we can make holidays sometimes).

@mntmn Yeah to me MNT is quite niche, and I think that's okay. Keep it up :)