Hey Muse, help me weld a 200kg steel table!

A week ago, I knew nothing about welding or weather satellites. This week, with Muse, I TIG welded a 200kg steel workbench and built my first 137MHz V-dipole. I’m an electrical engineer. For the last decade, I’ve mostly been writing firmware and designing electronics. Lately, I’ve got a taste for bigger things, literally. But learning something new in a workshop is awkward. I wear gloves, everything is dirty, and every time I get stuck I have to stop, take the gloves off, and search for an explanation. Then figure out how it applies to the thing in front of me. So I built Hey Muse, an assistant I can talk to while I work. I tell it what I want to build, and it creates a plan with parts, dimensions, instructions, and interactive 3D diagrams. As I work, I can ask questions, show it something through the camera, or ask it to explain a joint in the 3D view. It can highlight instructions and check off tasks as we go. For these two projects, it helped me figure out what to buy, understand how things fit together, and troubleshoot mistakes along the way. The welds aren’t pretty, but I built the workbench. The antenna is assembled, though I haven’t managed to receive a satellite image yet. I want to be able to pick something I’ve never done before and learn by doing it. This is how I think education should be: physical and on-demand.