[E:75] Essam Namous: Doctor of Engineering Makes Power Tools Moar Awesomer

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Former Make Editor, now involved with Able Gamers and much more, joins us to discuss what he's been up to! ToC: 0:00 - Intro: Caleb was Jeremy's first writing boss at Hackaday then Make 2:50 - Caleb works for Able Gamers and Open Sauce 8:40 - What was Caleb's favorite project when traveling to Maker Faires? 11:00 - Red and blue LED 3D shadow show 13:25 - Maker Faire Orlando 2024 16:30 - What even is Maker Faire? 18:00 - What is oobleck? (a non-Newtonian fluid) 20:00 - Is oobleck like a jumping bean? 22:45 - Will Jeremy ever drive a Power Wheel racing car? 25:00 - Jeremy replaced an alternator and got a bruise 26:00 - Does Caleb still revamp Volkswagen busses? 28:00 - Is Caleb employed? 28:54 - Coffee break 29:34 - Back to the show! *Note that when this interview was given Caleb worked for Open Sauce, but does not as of publication (month-plus later). Find us: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thecreativitypodcast RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:331308809/sounds.rss iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/the-creativity-podcast/id1281330349 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nHfNJNICMHqZWo0HPCMeA Patreon & Talk: https://www.patreon.com/createinvent https://speakpipe.com/createinvent People - Caleb Kraft Website: https://calebkraft.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CalebKraftmakes X: https://x.com/calebkraft https://ablegamers.org/ Paul 4 Bit Website: https://fourbitindustries.com/ Jeremy Cook: Website: https://jeremyscook.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cookedaudio X: https://twitter.com/JeremySCook Tindie Store: jcdevices.com

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[E:75] Essam Namous: Doctor of Engineering Makes Power Tools Moar Awesomer

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1 hour 4 minutes 45 seconds

1 year ago

[E:75] Essam Namous: Doctor of Engineering Makes Power Tools Moar Awesomer

If you have an engineering problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire... Dr. Essam Namouz YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC300jnYJu7u66EQX9S0SUZA iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/the-creativity-podcast/id1281330349 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nHfNJNICMHqZWo0HPCMeA ToC: 0:00 - Intro Essam works from home 0:55 - Essam is a prepared father 3:05 - Essam and Jeremy worked together at a bearing factory 5:05 - Why and how did Essam get his doctorate in engineering? 9:25 - Essam's master's thesis - The Lazy Parts Project 13:00 - Solidworks CAD + Machine learning (ANN) used to estimate assembly time 15:00 - How can engineers and small business owners use ChatGPT? 17:30 - More on neural network assembly time estimation 23:30 - How does having your doctorate in engineering open up pssibilities? 25:08 - Coffee break 27:17 - Return from coffee break - Essam is officially #1 father 28:13 - Butterwhat Discord - "only you can come on the Butterwhat Discord" https://butterwhat.com/discord 31:25 - After PhD, went into advanced engineering group for TTI/Ryobi 33:32 - Essam (and Li-Ion tech) helped improve Ryobi tools 35:40 - Essam worked for Harbor Freight for around 2 years 38:50 - Breaking phones, tools, and 10mm sockets 41:20 - Essam has mixed feelings about working remotely 43:50 - Pat misses work lunch (but only ever met Shakira at breakfast) 46:36 - Essam sometimes works as a cook at family restaurant Pita House 49:12 - Making the jump to self employment 53:10 - Essam's business is called EZN Innovation (maybe) 54:45 - Essam loves his laser cutter 56:00 - Doctorate in engineering + PE gives people confidence in your work 58:25 - Essam's neural network sports prediction program (Python) 1:02:45 - Sign off, where do we find Essam? Dr. Essam Namouz, PE: You can possibly find him on Linkedin, or ask Jeremy Pat Regan: Twitter: https://twitter.com/patsheadcom/ Website: https://blog.patshead.com/ Store: https://www.tindie.com/stores/patshead/ Jeremy Cook: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jscook55 Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeremySCook Store: jcdevices.com