The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Would using a 0.2w-1w laser for heating blanks make any sense? Just for clarity I am talking about shooting a laser as small as possible just to heat up the blank right before it hits the cutting head. Downside is clear polycarbonate would not work unless you were using a co2 laser which would be ki...

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Anyone have a miniDSP? https://www.minidsp.com/products/minidsp-in-a-box/minidsp-2x4-hd https://www.minidsp.com/images/documents/Product%20Brief-2x4%20HD1%20plugin.pdf PDF of the processing available Its made for the speaker crowd but I think it would also be a good fit for a lathe. It runs a FPGA c...