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Onur Karataş
Lean Manufacturing Engineer ·Maker · pursuing an MS in Materials Science
I write about 3D scanning, CAD, materials, and whatever I'm building at the moment. This site is also where I keep a record of hands-on projects — mostly additive manufacturing, scan-to-CAD workflows, and the occasional Python experiment.
Latest writing
2026-08-102026-07-222026-06-30
Scan-to-CAD: how much accuracy do you actually lose?
Running the same part through structured-light and LiDAR scans, then comparing mesh-to-parametric conversion error in Fusion 360.
Running local LLMs on 16GB of unified memory
Notes on quantization tradeoffs, thermal throttling on the M-series, and what actually fits at Q4_K_M.
Why I'm applying to materials science, not mechanical engineering
The case for micro-architected materials and additive manufacturing as the more interesting problem.