Lumafield, an industrial CT scanning company, publishes CT scans of consumer products such as USB-C cables, batteries, power banks and water filters.
HN commenters call the scan posts a cool way to market the product and point to the company when asked how they got a CT scanner; staff also post job ads.
At Lumafield we are looking for an Embedded Engineer in Boston.
Check out the role here:
https://www.lumafield.com/careers/job?id=b208427e-6066-4c58-a598-fbc529b116dc
And learn more about Lumafield below:
Lumafield was founded in 2019 to upgrade manufacturing.
We are engineers with deep experience across the product development cycle, from initial ideas to shipping hardware, across industries and specializations, who became frustrated by the cost and complexity of modern manufacturing. So we decided to upgrade it.
Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day, and they need tools that give them the greatest possible insight into their products. By offering unprecedented visibility into products, as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data, Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created, manufactured, and used across industries. We started with industrial CT scanning, which for us was the most valuable but underutilized tool in the manufacturing toolbox, enabling us to rapidly inspect essential components non-destructively.
We rebuilt the whole system, from X-ray capture, to computer vision analysis, to web-based collaboration, to the entire business model, making the most advanced manufacturing tech more accessible to every industry. Our company, like our platform, is designed for upgrades. We’re building for greater intelligence, autonomy, and speed. For deeper vision, operational excellence, and…
From YT comments:
… this kid appears to know what he’s doing. He even built a fairly outrageous DC power supply specifically for this project. … It was smart to use the remote control to keep away from the X-rays! … hence, why he was across the yard … Protip man, build a little lead or steel vault for that thing to protect yourself AND remove background radiation that is noising up your image. Then get yourself a survey meter and make sure you are keeping exposure outside the vault to 5mr/Hr or less. … Excellent work young man. When I read the title of your video, I thought perhaps you misunderstood the complex nature of the reconstruction algorithm. Turns out I was the one trying to keep up with your explanations and logic. … I fix CT scanners for a living. This is pretty darn cool!! When you started out, I was trying to figure out how you were going to make all of that rotate around your “patient.” You simply rotated your “patient” itself. Well done! … While not medical grade, it still demonstrates the working principle and actually extremely useful for imaging internal structures of all sorts of things! Consumer electronics imaged by industrial CT scanner: https://www.lumafield.com/article/inspect-electronics-industrial-ct
Precursor videos:
Building an X-Ray power supply, https://youtube.com/watch?v=ppIhQ0ZldZ0
Turning TV parts into an X-ray machine, https://youtube.com/watch?v=LXnK_lMQbYc
Building an X-Ray machine in my backyard,…
Clickable:
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- Visual intro to K-means clustering algorithm https://k-means-explorable.vercel.app/
- Animated 3D intro to vision LLMs https://blog.mdturp.ch/posts/2024-04-05-visual_guide_to_vision_transformer.html
- Animated intro to machine learning https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
- Animated intro to probability in math https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/basic-probability/index.html
- Building a 3D world from scratch in step by step animated manner https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-tutorial-build-your-first-3d-editor-in-rust/
- Visualize algorithms https://algorithm-visualizer.org/
- Animated step by step sequence of how a request goes from your browser to the server https://200ms.thenodebook.com/#act-1-the-click
- Visual intro to the inner workings of a combustion engine https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/
- 3D real time robotics code simulator https://bittlex-sim.petoi.com/
- Animated explainer: Elliptic curve cryptography https://growingswe.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography
- Rate limiting algorithms visualized https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms
- Visual intro to the graphics pipeline! https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/vulkan
- Animated explanation of how to build ReactJS from scratch! https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/
- Mini game: How to build an entire CPU starting from a basic gate…
IT Specialist in Boston, MA, Onsite. To learn more about Lumafield, see the JD, and apply: https://www.lumafield.com/ (or reach out to me directly- liz@lumafield.com)
About Lumafield:
Founded in 2019, Lumafield has developed the world's first accessible X-Ray CT scanner for engineers. Our easy-to-use scanner and cloud-based software give engineers the ability to see their work clearly, inside and out, at an extremely affordable price.
Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day, and they need tools that give them the greatest possible insight into their products. By offering unprecedented visibility into products, as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data, Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created, manufactured, and used across industries.
We are an impact driven company obsessed with providing the best value to our customers keeping their needs at the center of our evolution. Our team today includes world-class researchers and industrial designers, PhDs, creators, founders of successful startups, and zero egos. We are backed by top venture capital funds like Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, DCVC, Spark Capital, and others.
- A previous comment by me about my list of absolutely gorgeous, interactive, animated, high dynamic learning resources classified as S TIER
- S-TIER blogs are those that are animated, visual, interactive and absolutely blow your mind off
- A-TIER are highly informative and you ll learn something
- opinion blogs at the absolute bottom of the tier list because everyone everywhere ll always have an opinion about everything and my life is too short to be reading all that
- these are the S-TIER ones on my system
- https://growingswe.com/blog
- https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
- https://mlu-explain.github.io/
- https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/index.html#firstPage
- https://svg-tutorial.com/
- https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables
- these are the BEST of the BEST, you ll be blown away opening each page is how good they are. i am thinking of creating a bookmark manager that uses my criteria above and runs across every damn blog link ever posted on HN to categorize them as S-TIER, A-TIER, opinion and so on
Lumafield | https://www.lumafield.com SAN FRANCISCO, CA or CAMBRIDGE, MA – ONSITE
About Lumafield: Lumafield was founded in 2019 to upgrade manufacturing by making the most advanced tools more accessible. Our AI-driven platform and industrial CT scanning technology give engineers unprecedented visibility into their products, helping them make better decisions, faster. We’re headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with an office in San Francisco, CA. Lumafield is building the future of manufacturing through deeper insights, greater autonomy, and continuous innovation.
We recently raised our Series C funding of $75 million, further accelerating our mission to revolutionize manufacturing.
Open Roles: Backend Software Engineer (SF Bay Area) | Research Engineer (Greater Boston Area) | DevOps Engineer (SF Bay Area) | IT Specialist (SF Bay Area) | UX Designer (SF Bay Area)
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