Crazy how accurate and small you can inlay acrylic into veneer with the Glowforge

[FisherFlair]

[shop]

it all comes down to preplanning, testing, and math. i don’t always have the patience for it.

[sqw]

I think it all comes down to not having fat fingers

[FisherFlair]

[FisherFlair]

It helps that I work on electronics with the tiniest screws.

[cynd11]

Mind: boggled.

[ellencadwell]

That turned out beautiful!

[ptodd]

Beautiful project!! The inlay is incredible!

Not sure I’d want to deal with those screws.

[tim1724]

@FisherFlair

It helps that I work on electronics with the tiniest screws.

Modern manufacturing is crazy. Such tight tolerances on parts used on such a mass scale in everyday items, all at in incredibly low price. If you used a time machine to take an iPhone back to 1960 and showed it to engineers they’d be almost as impressed by the screws as by the electronics.

[FisherFlair]

In 1985, the supercomputer CRAY-2 had become the fastest and most powerful machine ever built. It set the world record with a peak performance of 1.9 gigaflops, or 1.9 billion floating point operations per second (FLOPS), vastly exceeding the 12,250 FLOPS peak performance of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer just 16 years earlier.

Compare that to today’s smartphones, which are about 5,000 times faster than the CRAY-2!!

[eflyguy]

Speaking of supercomputers…

A History of NASA's Supercomputers