Hulsroy's Hustle

I don't use it these days either, I just write python scripts and do FE analysis and stick accelerometers onto things...

Gotcha didn't know HE as an abbreviation.
My main reason for not wanting to teaching is these arsehole short term contracts.

I was on them for four years, finally given a “proper” contract last year.

PHD sounds exciting, good to have lots of options open to you. Hope the meeting goes well!

Thanks. We will see. It's been tough getting any writing or thinking done with bikes, family and teaching

For sure the contract situation is not great. But I'm still thinking to pursue it after my PhD. It's more rewarding in some ways than consultancy... Obviously the reward is not financial! Helps to have a partner with a more reliable job.

Share more about your potential research topic if you care to...

My wife just applied for a interactive design manager (I think) job at LEGO. If she gets that I can relax and just do what I want :)

I am hoping to do a didactic PhD on workshop based teaching in architecture. Basically I want to build bridge between material knowledge/studies, manufacturing and architectural design. There's a new building code happening in Denmark from 2023 and there will be much more focus on LCAs and there will be requirements to reuse building materials in the industry. This leaves a lot of architecture offices in situations where they don't actually know what to do. I am hoping to research in how we can teach more practical skills and have more material understanding so we can repurpose materials or build/design for reuse and disassembly to a higher degree. I am currently interested in Bricolage as a principle for developing teaching methods and looking at workshops as teaching spaces.

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Allright! Yes please tell them since I’m in stockholm too that wont be too complicated.

Pm me mail or phone number then

Such a cool topic, I was just talking to parent at pre-school who draws schools and pre-schools, about how I would really like the evaluating of materials side of things. Also helping with making the industry make sustainable choices is sure to set you up a couple of notches on the karmic wheel. Also possibilities of working at Lego, hope she get's it!

No job at LEGO so I am back trying to figure out balancing making and making money :)

You were always more Duplo tbh

Start an onlyfans

"show us yer fillets!" etc.

Would love to read that essay
And your thesis sounds like a good idea

I got the pdf if you shoot me your email

Star, will do

saw this project on the 'gram and thought of this thread

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Bit high end for me 🤣

But yeah I follow that profile

Sorry to go CAD chat, but I gave Rhino a try for about 2 days and really struggled and lost motivation. From what I've found, Rhino seems to be best at the very high-end and very complex structures and shapes - lots of freedom for the experienced user, and especially with Grasshopper if parametric is needed (although that blows my mind!). Also really good for surfacing. So probably really good for bike frames, Ultimate freedom.
I think Solidworks (which I'm on) and Fusion can be better for speed, making changes, repeat work etc. It's not just the parametric thing that is different, there's different features that I think suit industry - like tab and slot for assembling sheet parts, automatically calculating K-factor when bending, auto-adding tolerances on things, automatically filtering changes made in one part through to your assemblies and the drawings, simple exploded assembly drawings etc - Great for regular industry type of assemblies that go into busses, conveyors, structures, mass furniture etc - I think that's where Rhino is disadvantaged maybe.. but I see it used everywhere too.
Your CAD always looks tasty :)

Just to chime in on the CAD chat, I used to do a lot of mechanical design in Catia as a tooling engineer. It has a steep learning curve, but lot of useful analysis tools available and it's pretty easy to export part structures and production drawings. If you spend lots of time in it and have an extensive library, it really is one of the better industry tools.

I do still have it installed on the work laptop, but I rarely fire it up anymore. I've never thought of bicycle frame design before with it.

I would rather eat a slug than model a frame in rhino

Solidworks4eva

MS Paint or gtfo

But you also don't like disc brakes 😉

Truth