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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Hobbies, Crafts, & Houses > Fire, electrocution, and blindness may result: Chinese laser adventures
 
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Tres Burritos
Sep 3, 2009

Ambihelical Hexnut posted:

An SLS printer would be amazing, but those are some engineering hurdles I haven't bothered to examine yet!

I'm fairly certain that sls printers fill their build chamber with inert gasses so that the tiny metal particles don't combust and stuff.

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Tres Burritos
Sep 3, 2009

DreadLlama posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

Holy gently caress. This exists now? Jesus.

Do you have any idea what's possible with such technology? You could do away with the entire idle system on your carburetor. You could precisely control the flow of coolant in a reflux column. This has applications for both moonshining and the oil industry.

I mean, I had no idea that you could get a computer to control such things. I mean, I know the software is there, but I didn't know that sensors existed that a computer could read in order to know what to do. I thought you could only do that kind of stuff in minecraft.


Is ... is this ... sarcasm?

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