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s1monlast Tuesday at 5:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

As someone who's been doing mechanical product engineering for 30+ years, doing this as a first project is way more than jumping off the deep end. Impressive.


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buildbotlast Tuesday at 6:39 PM

I’m just a hobbyist 3D user but I feel like I have good experience, been using Autodesk Inventor then Fusion since early high school…

I saw the level of detail in the model and am shocked. If this is truly their first experience with CAD/CAM they are a natural.

For example - here’s my home built camera. It’s massively more simplistic: https://blog.maxg.io/phase-one-swc/

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alansaberlast Wednesday at 6:56 AM

Agreed, both the pcb and 3d design was very well done. I'd love to do something similar (on a smaller camera lol)