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MachinePix Weekly #53

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MachinePix Weekly #53

This week's most popular post was a shitpost about pizza 🍕

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Jul 23, 2021
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MachinePix Weekly #53

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This week I’ve been scuba diving and going deep down the rabbit hole of dive computers, which hit a lot of dopamine buttons for me by being both niche and technical. It’s also pretty incredible that a $300 beginner digital device is strictly superior to a state-of-the-art $3,000 mechanical device in almost every way. If these kinds of technological upsets are interesting to you, my friend Jason writes in-depth on the history of scientific and technological progress at Roots of Progress.

The most popular post this week was actually a comment on a shit-post in which an anonymous gentleman uses a grinder from Milwaukee’s flagship M18 FUEL line to clean up a burnt pizza:

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Removing burned pizza crust with a Milwaukee M18 FUEL grinder.
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Burned the bottom of your pizza? Don’t worry https://t.co/l4daHKcvIU
12:33 AM ∙ Jul 15, 2021
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Burned the bottom of your pizza? Don’t worry
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1:14 PM ∙ Jul 14, 2021
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—Kane


The Week in Review

Other balancing systems previously posted include a cable-driven robot, a crab-like robot, a high-tech cube, and a pendulum.

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Ball-balancing PID system by @link_johan.
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7:34 PM ∙ Jul 13, 2021
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Other cool examples of huge displays include the floating head at the SLS Las Vegas and the waves at SMTown Coex in Seoul.

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Calico cat display at Shinjuku Station by @xspace_tokyo.
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7:00 PM ∙ Jul 14, 2021
392Likes90Retweets

Gotta love a high-speed, high-precision, specialized line like this. I had always assumed these were produced as rounds and cut into slices, but this makes more sense.

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Dana processed cheese triangles packaging line by Bosch.
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5:06 AM ∙ Jul 16, 2021
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This is fun and handy, but I’m still looking for the machine that extracts the root balls of giant trees (or are they uprooted using an entirely different process? Send me a note if you know).

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Holmac HZC 38 self-propelled rootballing machine.
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7:50 PM ∙ Jul 16, 2021
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Postscript

Somehow, I had never come across a Harbor Freight brick and mortar store until this week. I had always assumed they were a distributor and online-only brand. This one unfortunately did not have a gold-plated ratchet in stock.

Yes, I know there are better tools—but Harbor Freight has saved many a project for me in the past and will always have a place in my heart.

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i never realized there was a brick and mortar store 🤯
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5:14 PM ∙ Jul 18, 2021

If you enjoyed this newsletter, forward it to friends (and interesting enemies). I am always looking to connect with interesting people and learn about interesting machines—reach out.

—Kane

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