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[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's fanuc cnc... Incredibly useful and precise but OLD! They literally still support programs from bubble tape if you need. It was basically hardware constrained initially but fixing it would break backwards compatibility which is a super selling point for them to government and long term industries.

Their controllers are mad expensive (budget version is like 30k last I checked), their support is top notch(tech typically on site within 24 hours with every possible board which may be bad so they can get you running and charge you later), they are incredibly precise and can do things other systems legally can not(a trainer I knew said "if you can move in 5 dimensions at once you can do some interesting things with nuclear energy so those require special clearance to sell"). Basically if you need them you NEED them, if you don't then you don't.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Custom machined fissible material!?

[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Nah just titanium