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Onur Karataş
Lean Manufacturing Engineer ·Maker · pursuing an MS in Materials Science
This here website is a placeholder project for my blog and portfolio. For now, it contains mostly AI generated content, as obvious from the em dashes, but will be updated soon. For contact, please reach out to me on onkaratas@gmail.com
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.