 Computers keep changing the world, but their power and safety is limited by their rigid design. The T2TILE project works for bigger and safer computing using living systems principles. Follow our progress here on T Tuesday Updates. This is the 29th T Tuesday Update. Let's get into it. So busy week. I put together a video. Let's take a look. So this was last Friday, 4-19-19. We've now got five finished boxes of cases, 180 cases total, which seems like plenty at the moment. And I switched over to printing PD tabs. The handles for the intertile connectors, the ones that carry both P power and D data between the T2TILEs. We need like 500 of these things. The sheet of 18 takes about 14 hours. Around noon I got an email from Robert at ETS. The fresh solder paste hadn't arrived, but they could use some older stuff and did I want to do that? And eventually the answer was let's give it a try. We're to ETS to watch the first tiles come off of their manufacturing machinery. So that's pretty exciting. When I took pictures at ETS the first time, I was trying to focus on the machines and not invade people's space. That's pretty hard with video and sound. So I wasn't really sure how this whole thing was going to go. But it turned out Robert the owner and Pat the tech guy were super cool and they put up with all the stupid questions starting with the solder paste printer. Solder paste printer? Okay does that look like a model number or something? That's a deck. Do we know what it's called? It's already done. And does it squeeze out more? You just put it kind of up. You put it down yourself? And does it do it like back and forth or just always forward? It takes the same glob of goo and pushes it back the next way. That's cool. Deck horizon 2. And so it's already done so now what happens? Yeah I'm just going to be sure that we've got enough lining on it so that we can get solder bridges. Just suck it in. Whoa. Oh it's changing tools back there. That's what it was doing. Changing little pickers. The nozzles, yeah. Man that's like four hours when I do that. Wow yeah. If it works at all. Beautiful. Oh we've got it done one. How long does it take to go through this thing? I'd say about a close to four. Uh huh. I was wondering about that so C4. And then we... And the switches. Correct. After we wash yet. We're maxing out at 260 and since it's lead-free solder page we actually kick the belt speed down. At 35 usually it's about 70 so it'll give it a little more time in each zone. Correct. The last two zones are the cool. And that's just supposed to be room temperature or whatever. Yeah, bringing it back down. They're still a little high as they come out. Right. Okay, alright I get it. I was wondering whether these gigantic things fit in the same mechanism. So there's a whole special gizmo to hold the big things. 12 millimeter piers. And then these are 8 millimeter piers. Uh huh. And they seem to be sort of the most common. Because parts are so damn small. I can't even see. Actually they're 0201's. I didn't need the R0201's. Oh shit. And so there would be some super tiny nozzle over there. And that's just vacuum. It's sucking up. Really? I like the switches for example. There's really no good way to grab them. We could place them but we watched the boards. We don't want water getting inside. Oh I get it. Alright. Like that. And the big electrolytic pad that he was placing. Peter wouldn't take it. It just wouldn't fit it. So there's one little extra step. Uh huh. That's very cool. They need a little touch up afterwards. Uh huh. So then you take a look at each one with the magnifier. Look for bridges or whatever. That kind of thing. Oh this is super. So it's not worth the while to try to actually mechanically connect these things up so they can zip through. That makes sense. Of course. It's all a matter of time and money and volume. We first powered up. We cleaned all the nozzles with the intensity stick. Just from Josh? What the heck is in there? I mean the paste machine I can imagine cleaning that is a thing. Is the nozzles. Uh huh. Zero ones have pockets. These don't want to have pockets. I don't get a neat pocket to connect to the machine. You mean the tray that they go into? Yeah. I see. I get it. These have a little ring around them and it tends to stick. It just mechanically grabs a little bit. So that means it doesn't get seated exactly on. It will pick it up. Oh it will just miss. I get it. It will figure that out. It stops and you have to deal with it. I get it. Are we good to go? Yep. Yeah we're just sitting here blabbing wasting time. So that other guy must have come out the other end by now. Right? Yeah. So that's just gotten there. It would have fallen all the way down here. Right it would have come in here and slide in here. This is that guy that we saw before. This is no Hollywood magic. It's the same damn guy coming out the other end. No special effect. And then you just stack them up here and if you look back, can I do it? Yeah definitely. It would be a little hot still. No not too bad. Actually it is a little hot. I put it the wrong way up. No. Oh that's very cool. The baiting is still, it's just weird. You mean just taking a look at them? I'll probably possibly set up a life-free station for them and just kind of get out the solder grid. Because that's something that you're going to see with some frequency. I'm hoping not. But remember how Tiger said that calibration on that screen for any song. So how chances are we going to have basically when I was hand-streaming these things? You know he showed us last time that he had this thing. But that even that is miles better than what I was doing with capped on tape on the kitchen table. Yeah. That's where we were too bad. Alright. So the point is you're going to check these, just looking for bridges and touch them up, whatever it is before they get the flux washed off and so on. Ooh, that's the potential. What's happening? Is that a leader? That's the chancellor. Oh, okay. It looks like that's right at the beginning. That is the opening leader stuff still there. Here you go. Once they pass the roller or I see. And if we were making millions of these we would just advance it and get a whole reel like that. I'm glad you had a place because that takes a long time. Well, the Arrow, do you know Arrow? They've been having these ridiculous get-my-business sales that compared to Mouser and Digipede and one of them was free reels with leader like that. The ones that I could get an arrow, not all of them I could. I mean like this Mouser and so forth. That was great. I got a bunch of them from Mouser it was $7 a pop to get the reel with the leader. You can do that here. Well, given the Paz file thing didn't work, I was happy to save you a time anyway I could. Yeah. I thought for sure I could add an offset to it. There's got to be some subtract from a hundred or multiply by minus one or something. When it didn't work out. On the second fiducial, you say screw it. Yeah. So it missed a little bit. Just getting a little thin. I get it, so you can miss some. So we'll do whatever we can do and then I guess it's just going to tie up your machine until next week. We can watch that one along and cycle it around. So you've got a good little bead. Good bead, yeah. So it really cranks pretty well except for the handling time and whatnot. Oh no, I'm sorry. I've done that. I feel your pain. I forgot. Well, what they did was it put plastic leader on it. Oh, and it's just different. Yeah. They would never expect it. To have a edge. Just a tin leader. Right. We haven't actually seen this problem. Yeah, we've seen that, but like I said it was a special free sale. Well, we'll see whether it saves time when we get all done. We had some really old machines. That used to love to realign all the parts. Love? That's the word he would use. Connect to other boards. Board to board, that's the way it works. And then you go as far as you want. So I don't know what the hell is going to happen when I have 150 boards all connected to each other. There's all other order that might be. Yeah, exactly. There's no long cables for the ground to get out of whack. It's just going one little stop and then getting used there and so on. So we'll see. I'm hoping for the best. More is different. I appreciate it. Thank you. 36 seconds. Jesus. Once it gets rockin'. Yeah. So when it was checkin' the three fiducials it was just do, do, do. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So this is like, for me, this is like the 3D printer. All the smarts and stuff. And it just says go to XY. Well, I mean with the cameras. I wish 3D printers had cameras. So they could see that they were skewin' the shit all over the floor. You know. You come back 10 hours later and you have this hairball. They will eventually. All this stuff is going to get cheaper and cheaper and it's going to be AI and everything to look at what it's doing and see how well it's working. Okay guys. That didn't go crazy for us. Here, so we'll see how long we go and how we run out completely. But this is super fun. I mean, it's easy to get cranky about the technical society. But it also is pretty damn amazing. And it's all about, you know, sort of like knowing what you can find far enough ahead of time to do all of this incredible preparation of building an industrial technical society that you could never possibly afford is one off three or thing. And so for a few thousand dollars we're going to get to this point where we're going to have 100 plus, 150 plus you don't even know yet of these little tiles to try to play with and see if we can establish a benchmark world record for average event rate. I don't know. I'm really scared to even think there might be one air. One event per site per second. But we'll see there might be. Oh. Got to get back to work. Here comes another one. Uh-huh. I've been working for a long period for 12 years. So that's a good thing. Yeah. He gives me a hand. So when you say working on these, yeah, we got these ones, I believe. Before that we had to fill up a pair of bills. Okay, you were just talking about. Right. Yeah. That was the most interesting thing ever. Uh-huh. Say again. I think we'll build more. Well, but it's always going to be sort of research level. Like that. We're going to build this. You know, maybe we'll do another round. We'll see how it goes. But then we're going to redesign and hopefully do much smarter stuff than people who know what they're doing. Uh-huh. This is trying to kickstart a new area of computer research. That's why I'm kind of just doing it all. Because everybody's been some crazy. You know. They might be, right? Yeah. Exactly. And it probably was, but I didn't need them because I'm good at this. Yeah. So we'll see. Once everything was dialed in, the board started coming out fast. By the time I left, the pace was gone and the surface mount parts were soldered on to something like 40 T2 tiles quite a day. Although when I got home, I realized I hate being right about 3D printers. So that happened. Uh, thanks again to Robert and to Pat that was really great. And it, you know, it was just really exciting for me to actually, you know, see this happening. Uh, there was a bunch of other stuff that happened this week as well. I actually have some progress with getting out connectors manufactured. Go to push that off, talk about it next time. Uh, it feels like we're hitting the rapids here at least for a little while. Stuff's kind of piling in quick. It's exciting. I hope to see you next week. Have a good week.