Gave a short talk and Q&A on why hardware is important, why it's still too difficult, and what we can do to improve it by making better tools and ecosystem support to create better tools.

1. The Future of Tools
Nick Pinkston
Future of Manufacturing Community - May 26, 2021

3. Why do tools matter?

6. Acceleration of Tech Adoption

7. The Next Technological Revolution
AI / Automation / IoT
6th

8. Why is hardware hard?

9. High Complexity / Dependency

10. Low Leverage Tools

12. Automation is Highly Manual

13. Manufacturing: A Complex Ecology

14. CAD: High Lock-in → No Incentive to Improve

15. Lack of Finance for New Tools

16. How do we get better at
solving problems?

17. # Iterations by Field

20. Design + Debug

21. Compile

22. Run

23. Test

24. Q & A

25. The Future

26. Design:
Shape Creation

27. Shapr3D

28. Ford’s Gravity Sketch

29. VR Product Testing

30. Design:
Augmentation

31. Generative Design

33. Automated front-end development using deep learning
(Ashwin Kumar)

34. Generating custom photo-realistic faces using AI
(Shaobo Guan)

35. Design:
Shape Search

41. Design:
Complex Systems

43. Simulation +
Testing

44. Finite Element Analysis

46. Manufacturing

48. Full-Stack Marketplace

50. VR Training

51. Self-Programming Automation

53. Engineering Superpowers

54. Thank you!