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One of the best parts about working at Fictiv, located in the heart of San Francisco, is that we’re constantly surrounded by some of the world’s most talented engineers and industrial designers, building the next generation of hardware products. To give you a view into this exciting and rapidly growing world, we started a new video series calledHardware Generation, where Fictiv CEO Dave Evans visits top hardware companies around the San Francisco Bay Area to learn about how they’re using the power of engineering to change the world.
在our latest edition of Hardware Generation, Fictiv CEO Dave Evans heads to Davis, CA to meet up with Yezin Taha (CEO) and Ky Krieger (Lead Mechanical Engineer) of Nevados Engineering.Nevados正在构建单个全地形太阳能跟踪器，该跟踪器可以在倾斜的土地上安装，并且与传统的固定跟踪系统相比，可以产生25％的能量。
Yezin and Ky walk us through the importance of solar innovation, outlining major challenges and considerations in engineering large industrial mechanics at scale, including:
- How they moved from one-off fabrication processes like plasma cutting and welding to off-the shelf components to iterate quickly and get closer to manufacturability at scale. (1:48)
- 太阳能生产中阴影的挑战（2:50）
- 它们如何通过柔性轴承设计改变面板的输入和输出角度来改善设计的扭矩（3:13）
- + if your kinematics equations are a bit rusty, don’t worry—Dave breaks it down at 3:33
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