Parts Department
Parts Department

168 - Hole in the wall, glorious

27 January 2026 52:04 Justin Brouillette & Jem Freeman

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Jem's recovering from bushfire evacuations and finding thinking work tough after the chaos. Justin's got a glorious new hole between his shop spaces and AirShop is streamlining daily operations nicely. Both are geeking out over Random Routing's insane 48-tool carousel upgrade. Jem's dumped ChatGPT for Gemini, and Justin's testing coated CNC tooling.

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DISCUSSED:

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  1. Fires near Jem
  2. 5th Axis Kurt DX6 96 Adapter
  3. Quitting my 3 axis reel
  4. Converting Pierson Pallets to Lang 96
  5. AirShop is really smoothing daily operations (Beta users wanted!)
  6. Post Edits, Github shared Haas post
  7. Gemini backing Siri
  8. Home battery project ꘎
  9. Time on the tools ꘎
  10. Hole in the wall! Glorious
  11. Chatty G I've dumped you ꘎
  12. Reanimating grasshopper challenges ꘎
  13. Diode was the right diagnosis ꘎
  14. Home Assistant Green
  15. Fire Ball 🔥
  16. Random Routing with a banger
  17. Aluminum finish quality 😍
  18. Love the Kimla
  19. Post drives the robot
  20. 48 tools
  21. Simplicity of PC CAM


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Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

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