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Today we are machining some metal inside the scanning electron microscope! By creating a custom fixture, we can manually advance a carbide cutter and cut metal inside the vacuum chamber of my SEM. Then we can construct a timelapse of those images to see what metal looks like under extreme magnification when being cut!


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First song: "Just Ripe" by Novembers (https://artlist.io/song/114591/justripe)
Second song: "Light Reflection" by Luke Melville (https://artlist.io/song/107843/light...)