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June 04, 2007
+1 for science
Caught a link from digg about a table saw that doesn't cut humans, only those dirty, traitorous trees. The video is pretty cool, check it out.
This is the kind of crap where we need to give technology some credit.
I guess we could build this kind of technology into skynet and make sure that the robot apocalypse doesn't employ blade technology ;)
Posted by bucjos at June 4, 2007 02:12 PM
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Finger != hot dog.
isn't this old news? I feel like my cheapo table saw in the basement does something like this, but I am not willing to sacrifice the hot dog required to test it.
Posted by: kruck at June 4, 2007 06:16 PM
I'd be impressed if cheap saws do this (I haven't seen one that does). The fact they use electric resistance is impressive to me (and in that facet a hot dog should be the same as a finger in that it makes a change in the electric current, right?)
Posted by: JoeBuck at June 4, 2007 06:42 PM
That's been around for a while. One problem besides the initial cost is it destroys the brake when it's tripped (or at least some revisions did/do), which at the time I initially heard about it was $70 (plus the blade which probably doesn't survive either). So don't want it to false trip either. As for the sensing, it's capacitance and not resistance.
Posted by: Jeremy at June 4, 2007 07:31 PM
I am apparently way behind the tool technology curve :/
Posted by: JoeBuck at June 4, 2007 08:22 PM
It is old news but not that old. Toolmonger, a tool site that I read regularly, had an article on it back in June of 2006. http://toolmonger.com/2006/06/30/save-your-fingers-woodworker-the-sawstop/
Posted by: jeff at June 5, 2007 08:33 AM
I found another post about the SawStop on Toolmonger but this time it explains that while the technology is old, the adoption of the technology might be coming to many table saws in the near future.
http://toolmonger.com/2006/08/14/sawstop-vs-the-industry/
Posted by: jeff at June 5, 2007 08:37 AM