Computer-aided manufacturing

And the first time I saw the submersible, it was all shiny, it was white, and it had never existed before.

And I had only seen it in CAD-CAM drawings before.

But to go from having something in your mind and seeing drawings and seeing a physical object in the real and then climbing in that capsule for the first time and seeing all the electronics, everything just where I wanted it, that was just amazing.

And then, of course, everything broke completely.

But it was so fun.

I have never had a laptop that allowed me to easily take CAD/CAM home and show it to my kids.

Yeah.

I've showed them stuff here at the shop.

And what they were doing was so much more advanced than what we were doing.

They were using this stuff called CAD-CAM, computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing, to really rethink the way that they actually designed physical products.

And I took a look at that and I said to my boss, I said, why can't we do something similar to this for the parts of banking? To which he instructed me that we were a consulting firm and should stay a consulting firm and I should just go do the project.

But a couple of years later, when the company was bought and I had to decide what to do next, I decided to branch out and see if I could build a system that would bring a lot of the principles of computer-aided design to the way you designed workflow systems in banks, insurance companies, and other firms.

And this would be a plane that didn't really exist anywhere, but it would pass for a Soviet MiG or something, you know, close enough to fool people.

And so in the late 90s, early part of this century, with all of our computer and CAD-CAM and numerically controlled machines, it seems to me that it's not that big a stretch of the imagination, if at all, to believe that a one-off aircraft that doesn't exist anywhere else, never existed before, never existed since, could have been created specifically for these specialized 9-11 attacks.

And so when I see people going down the list of every known aircraft, trying to decide what it was, I go,

what if

I said, well, apart from being in a relationship, we are a business partner.

Plus, he's a CAD CAM designer, so bless him.

We can be hot sometimes.

Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure sometimes I do our CAD CAMs heading sometimes.

But I've actually thrown myself into CAD CAM over the last week because it's that time of year.

How's it going? A lot of people are kind of going on and off of holiday.

So there's been time for me to be able to push myself into...

It's not to make a crown.

Yeah.

And they were just giving you CAD/CAM images of how cool this was going to be Right now, I can go out my door and see this in practice.

And so for someone to do a PowerPoint presentation about how cool their service is going to be, that might work for kids, but that's not gonna work for investors.

You actually have to get-- When you have, what does Waymo have? Four thousand something.

FARO Creaform updated its Laser Line Pro portfolio with the addition of the Quantum X and Quantum Max FARO Arm series.

And ENCY debuted three point O CAD/CAM and robot programming software.

So there's a massive technology stack of compute motors, sensors, communication, and programming tools driving all the hype and turning the AI into physical reality.

Now let's take a look at some highlights from the warehouse and logistics space.

The vision would be, um, to have a few schools here around, uh, some, some schools do metalworks, to have some, some schools in the local area that would, uh, build simulator rigs, for example, in a manner that you could compare them or have, for example, at the big scale, uh, to have, uh, the industry like Leonardo and, um, um, Bell, and you name them, name them all, uh, put their heads together and, uh, build a curriculum how to teach some basic stuff about, uh, um, aerodynamics.

Maybe they could also, um, do classes on, uh, CAD/CAM and, uh, have a, a competition, um, described how to, how to set up a rig.

For example, you, you have a, a minimal rig that you could fold together and, uh, uh, take it with you in your laptop pocket, okay? Or you, you build rigs that are, uh, easy to, to combine and, um, you do a design competition, and the kids build on it, uh, wrench their stuff, tinker their stuff, and at the end of the year, they just show up, uh, on locations or maybe just, um, send in pictures and, uh, some design processes of their work, and, uh, they get nominated for the best, uh, second or third, for example, in designing.

And, uh, maybe you could, uh, have competitions, uh, in, uh, in maths or, um, flying kids, uh, having, having kids fly pre-calculated paths and, uh, you go on a, on a, on a competition route.