Mike Ritland

He does a lot of really cool things, science, math. He's got a book on security, but he also makes something called Klein bottles. Total deviation here, but you'll see why. So Klein bottles are, you know, a Mobius strip. You take a strip of paper and you pull the ends up, rotate, tape them together. Now you've got a 1D dimension. So if you follow it around on a pen, it's one dimensional.

He does a lot of really cool things, science, math. He's got a book on security, but he also makes something called Klein bottles. Total deviation here, but you'll see why. So Klein bottles are, you know, a Mobius strip. You take a strip of paper and you pull the ends up, rotate, tape them together. Now you've got a 1D dimension. So if you follow it around on a pen, it's one dimensional.

He does a lot of really cool things, science, math. He's got a book on security, but he also makes something called Klein bottles. Total deviation here, but you'll see why. So Klein bottles are, you know, a Mobius strip. You take a strip of paper and you pull the ends up, rotate, tape them together. Now you've got a 1D dimension. So if you follow it around on a pen, it's one dimensional.

Klein bottle is a 3D version of that. Anyway, he, I think he lives in Palo Alto, a small place. He runs like distribution entirely out of his house for that. So under his house, he has built an entire robotic warehouse system with like drives the thing around, pulls the stuff out. I think that's cool as hell.

Klein bottle is a 3D version of that. Anyway, he, I think he lives in Palo Alto, a small place. He runs like distribution entirely out of his house for that. So under his house, he has built an entire robotic warehouse system with like drives the thing around, pulls the stuff out. I think that's cool as hell.

Klein bottle is a 3D version of that. Anyway, he, I think he lives in Palo Alto, a small place. He runs like distribution entirely out of his house for that. So under his house, he has built an entire robotic warehouse system with like drives the thing around, pulls the stuff out. I think that's cool as hell.

um and it goes back to like the old school hacker mindset of just doing that i like that kind of stuff just catches me and i'll like okay cool i want to do as much manufacturing in home as i can because a my stuff is really small um but you know also let's just see how far i can take it how much more i can optimize like i this this orange clip that goes on these things that I ship with.

um and it goes back to like the old school hacker mindset of just doing that i like that kind of stuff just catches me and i'll like okay cool i want to do as much manufacturing in home as i can because a my stuff is really small um but you know also let's just see how far i can take it how much more i can optimize like i this this orange clip that goes on these things that I ship with.

um and it goes back to like the old school hacker mindset of just doing that i like that kind of stuff just catches me and i'll like okay cool i want to do as much manufacturing in home as i can because a my stuff is really small um but you know also let's just see how far i can take it how much more i can optimize like i this this orange clip that goes on these things that I ship with.

So you know which ones are bad. I've redesigned it like six times so far. Wow. I just want to see how much further can I take it.

So you know which ones are bad. I've redesigned it like six times so far. Wow. I just want to see how much further can I take it.

So you know which ones are bad. I've redesigned it like six times so far. Wow. I just want to see how much further can I take it.

It's a mix. So the process for it, I'm going to go back to this PCB as a reference here, but real quick. The process that I'm kind of taking right now is I ask one manufacturer, make the raw, the PCB, the green piece here. Then that gets shipped to another place that assembles the components to the PCB. They're basically running it through high heat.

It's a mix. So the process for it, I'm going to go back to this PCB as a reference here, but real quick. The process that I'm kind of taking right now is I ask one manufacturer, make the raw, the PCB, the green piece here. Then that gets shipped to another place that assembles the components to the PCB. They're basically running it through high heat.

It's a mix. So the process for it, I'm going to go back to this PCB as a reference here, but real quick. The process that I'm kind of taking right now is I ask one manufacturer, make the raw, the PCB, the green piece here. Then that gets shipped to another place that assembles the components to the PCB. They're basically running it through high heat.

They melt solder, and they all get glued to the board. Now you've got a functional piece of... And now, once it's glued to the board, here's one of my implants. And we can get some close-ups later. But here is, that's one of the implants. That's the size of it.

They melt solder, and they all get glued to the board. Now you've got a functional piece of... And now, once it's glued to the board, here's one of my implants. And we can get some close-ups later. But here is, that's one of the implants. That's the size of it.

They melt solder, and they all get glued to the board. Now you've got a functional piece of... And now, once it's glued to the board, here's one of my implants. And we can get some close-ups later. But here is, that's one of the implants. That's the size of it.

Yep. Inside the boot of the cable, basically.

Yep. Inside the boot of the cable, basically.