Lentoris is becoming a fab lab quest.
The NSProject seems to be building support.

Personally, I'm not sure where I can best make my name in the world.
I've felt like a failure for most of this week. And my job was getting to
me. So I wasn't at tip top level last night. And decided to call
it a night.

I speculate on what it would take to pull of the kinds of
things I envision about robotics. I'm beginning to think it has
something to do with

I was browsing the MIT Courseware. A lot of the slides aren't in
the presentations so I can't really get the same feel. I do get
the gist of the photo resist process. Photolithography is the method
of the day and it seemed to me we'll need to use todays' methods
to build tomorrows nano machines. That's why I'm aiming for larger
devices that are ultimately the size of sand grains. Because all their
parts are definitely going to be very small.

A nano factory made from 2D chip fab parts.

I have not yet found a service I can send a design to and have them
produce the chip. I fear it may be extremely expensive as well.
Which is why there is
an ideal to build a far less advanced chip fab unit locally.
It doesn't have to be state of the art if it can handle the same
process and help make items with details near the micron level.
May even have to experiment with non traditional materials.

Clearly, my life's work has to be focused around answering specific
questions or solving specific problems. Or else I'd just be doing
endless random projects that don't build on one another.

That's why careful thought into what it takes to pull these things
off is important. And then I'll have to identify which skills
I'll need and take stock of the ones I have and bridge the gap
in the years to come.

A clear path is the first step and while my ideas have been getting
clearer. They still show some quantum fuzz as well as some capital road
blocks.

But alas, if it was easy it wouldn't be worth doing.
I'm simply afraid that I don't have the pulse on exactly
what I need to know that's going on. Hence, tracking the notes
as I try to put the picture together. What papers on nano tech do
I need to read? What do I need to know about fabrication systems?
How am I going to get the tools I need to conduct my own research?

I'm thankful for my epiphany this year that a chronological
blog format was exactly the wrong format to work in for what I really wanted
to do. I have a lot of project folders with things I've done
and several url files. Sitting in OS folders is the wrong
format for these. (As well as un-displayable and hard to find)

Even if I am in doubt about how best to move forward in a night
I can always rely on the basics, taking more notes, studying more mathematics and keeping up to date
on modern research will contineu to be a necessary chore.

ps
I think I know what's wrong with my foot.
I believe there's a lump compressing a neural mass.
And from what I've read, surgery is really the only cure.
The trouble is that it's a really bad place for a lump.
Underneath 2 veins.