Blake Scholl
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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If any of you are not hardware people, one of the things you need to understand about building hardware is you have to make custom precision molds, tools, and fixtures to create your precise parts.
For example, for a...
a carbon fiber wing, there is a mold the size of the wing, the contour of the wing in which you lay up layers and layers of carbon fiber fabric and then cure in that mold to make your wing.
Or for metallic parts, you might have stainless steel tools in which you injection mold or make wax masters that then go through some other complex process.
And the downside of all this tooling, a couple of fold.
One is because so much manufacturing went to China, the tool and dye industry in the US basically died.
And it's very, very hard to find tool and dye engineers in the US.
But if you throw a baseball in China, you'll hit one.
So a lot of what we're doing at Boom is trying to figure out how to get rid of the tooling entirely.
For example, for our turbine blades, we're working in an all digital manufacturing process that will let us go in 24 hours from a digital design to the most advanced turbine blade in the world with absolutely no tooling.
And that example matters because this is, I think, how we win versus China.
We don't win in a game where the most labor is what matters.
We don't win in a game where having the tool and die industry is what really matters.
We need to invent the next generation of manufacturing and scale that here.
Because what America is still best at is invention and freedom and innovation.
OK.
In what ways has AI made building in the physical world easier?
What things remain really hard?
The first thing I think we've seen is that the AI has dramatically reduced the cost of software development.
And what that means is that we can have custom engineering tools that otherwise would have been unaffordable to create.
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