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Title: Craft knife, but with LED
Post by: Aksu on 26 January 2020, 04:46:35 PM

Came across this in an online railroad modeller shop (yes, guilty as charged, taken up another modeling hobby - N scale i.e. 10 mm model railroading)... anyway, there is at least a German company that makes an X-acto but with an LED. Sort of a brilliant idea, probably
https://youtu.be/rmQqmmSwgQs (https://youtu.be/rmQqmmSwgQs)
Cheers,
Aksu

Title: Re: Craft knife, but with LED
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 26 January 2020, 09:14:53 PM

This was the formal weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster.
More skill than simple sight was required for its use.
An elegant weapon.
It was a symbol as well.
Anyone can use a blaster or a fusioncutter—but to use a lightsaber well was a mark of someone a cut above the ordinary.

Title: Re: Craft knife, but with LED
Post by: Wulf on 26 January 2020, 11:26:59 PM

While I rarely if ever need that degree of precision lining up a blade, if I ever did, I would have appreciated this. A solution to a problem I never realised I had...

Title: Re: Craft knife, but with LED
Post by: Ithoriel on 27 January 2020, 12:38:24 AM

A solution looking for a problem, IMHO, Wulf!

(http://devhumor.com/content/uploads/images/May2018/single_responsability_principle.jpg)

Title: Re: Craft knife, but with LED
Post by: Orcs on 03 February 2020, 06:24:02 PM

Is the light so that Techno can see where he is cutting himself?

Title: Re: Craft knife, but with LED
Post by: Techno on 03 February 2020, 06:47:57 PM

:P

Cheers - Phil ;)

Title: Re: Craft knife, but with LED
Post by: petercooman on 03 February 2020, 09:59:07 PM

Quote from: Orcs on 03 February 2020, 06:24:02 PM
Is the light so that Techno can see where he is cutting himself?

They should make one with a laser, so he can immediately weld it back togheter...

Title: Re: Craft knife, but with LED
Post by: FierceKitty on 04 February 2020, 02:10:11 AM

Quote from: Ithoriel on 27 January 2020, 12:38:24 AM
A solution looking for a problem, IMHO, Wulf!

(http://devhumor.com/content/uploads/images/May2018/single_responsability_principle.jpg)

You love that idiom!

Title: Re: Craft knife, but with LED
Post by: Ithoriel on 04 February 2020, 12:27:32 PM

Quote from: FierceKitty on 04 February 2020, 02:10:11 AM
You love that idiom!

It describes the heart of capitalism so neatly :)

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