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  1. How To Build With Delrin and a Laser Cutter

    Build · Hardhack · · posted by Soulskill · from the now-you're-thinking-with-lasers dept. · 28 comments
    szczys writes: Laser cutters are awesome, but you have to bring your mechanical engineering A-game if you want to build resilient stuff using laser-cut parts. Joshua Vasquez has been building up his bag of tricks using Delrin and a laser cutter to build with techniques like press-fitting, threading, snap-fits, etc. that aren't possible or are non-ideal with the laser-cutting steadfasts of plywood and acrylic. Delrin (PDF) won't shatter like acrylic, and it has more give to it, so even the less precise entry-level lasers can cut joints that will have a snug fit.

  2. Rotating JPG Images Without Losing Data?

    Ask · Gimp · · posted by Cliff · from the avoiding-the-decompress-rotate-compress-phase dept. · 14 comments
    Another voiciferous Anonymous Coward asks: "Is there a such thing as a loss-less JPEG rotator? I want to rotate 90 degrees w/o the decompress recompress cycle which chews up jpegs. Supposedly there are some for windows, but I haven't found any for Linux. The GIMP opens and resaves and from what I can tell so does ImageMagik."