Pete Oxenham (@peteoxenham) / X

Pete Oxenham

5,500 posts

Pete Oxenham

@peteoxenham

Machinist, head of product @ Toolpath.com, founder Chatter.dev (acq by toolpath), making ai for CNC machining. Opinions my own and most likely wrong.

Sacramento, CA

Joined June 2019

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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Sep 28, 2024
The Bird Saga Tell-All: Here's the story of how I got my first $300k+ PO and turned my little race parts shop into a 24/7 CNC production facility (w/ pics!) Story involves big risks, air mattresses, overloaded circuits, overfilled chip bins, A+ friends, and an industry legend.
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
May 11, 2024
The aurora borealis is absolutely majestic
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Oct 22, 2025
one of our devs originally added this as a gag, but then users started actually using it so it lives in our toolbar now
Stephen Burrows
@yamahaeleven
Oct 21, 2025
Replying to @sendcutsend
Be nice to have a banana for scale in one of the shots.
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Jul 10, 2024
“Engineering rarely has great taste” Oh you mean all the coolest shit humanity had ever invented?
Andrew J.
@1Andrew_J
Jul 10, 2024
Replying to @peteoxenham and @jack24dd30
It's great on the track, but that's not the same as tasteful. Engineering rarely has great taste, because it's a seperate skill. Much like the most over-engineered running shoes used by professionals generally look bad, supercars rarely look good anywhere but max out on a track.
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
May 28, 2024
Danielle Fong 🔆
@DanielleFong
May 28, 2024
man, i thought yann was joking it's kinda wild to be like elon, nobody will ever hear of your work, since you didn't publish
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Oct 12, 2025
Me 4 hours into a youtube channel called "Practical Engineering" with zero intent or ability to use spillway engineering knowledge in any practical way
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Jun 13, 2025
There’s a whole indian subculture on instagram of guys flexing sneaking into the US and getting deported over and over
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Jan 19, 2024
The boys in the group chat and I have been working on identifying all the machines in this video for about 30 minutes so far. Will update with progress.
Tim Cook
@tim_cook
Jan 19, 2024
Apple Vision Pro pre-orders begin today! We’re so excited for you to experience spatial computing for the first time! apple.co/applevisionpro
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Nov 9, 2024
in my opinion brother is probably the best printer/sewing machine/cnc mill company out there
karl hess
@karlhess
Sep 2, 2019
in my opinion yamaha is probably the best grand piano/motorcycle company out there
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Aug 3, 2023
Nobody wants to admit it, but this is our best shot at getting Gen Z into manufacturing
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Apr 8, 2025
Breaking - Haas reduces production of CNC machines, eliminates overtime, halts hiring, citing "dramatic decrease in demand" and concerns about reduced tariffs on Asian machines. Asks the administration for tariff exemptions on imported machine components and raw materials.
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Jan 21, 2024
Machining Apple's Vision Pro Headset Apple's manufacturing processes are some of the best in the world, and shrouded in secrecy with the exception of their occasional manufacturing videos. Based on the clips, let's break down the machining shown in the latest video step by step.
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Oct 25, 2025
They’re teaching kids to program welding robots in high school now 🤖 Folsom CA
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Pete Oxenham
@peteoxenham
Oct 31, 2025
Honestly, the design of this thing is just offensive. A core misunderstanding of where industrial beauty comes from in the first place All the beauty we find, in both nature and the fabricated world, arises from the need to hyper-optimize for function - we humans find that
Anjney Midha
@AnjneyMidha
Oct 30, 2025
Got to see it IRL. Congrats @GillVerd and team! So crazy it might just work. Excited to see what kinds of diffusion workloads this beast can accelerate
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