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[–] cantstopthesignal 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does it get to the right temperatures??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? The printer? They use metal pellets and AFAIK, you program the printer to heat an induction coil to melt the pellets.

[–] cantstopthesignal 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. Very cool. Thanks for the explanation.