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Paul Luffel was cutting some Lexan or simliar material (I don't recall exactly what it was,) last year with a Dremel. He ended up somehow putting the Dremel in his finger, cutting a 1/8-inch or so deep groove into it, and cauterizing the wound with the friction of the cutting disk. It was actually kind of cool, though it's not an experience I'd like to go through.
Three of us got stabbed by a hot soddering iron last year.
The only ROBOT-inflicted injury I can remember is one of our alumni tightenining down the nut on the frame of our bot, and the piston from the pneumatics slammed down pretty much on top of the nut. Someone, not paying attention, released the solenoid and squished his finger. It wasn't broken or anything, luckily.
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"So everybody's got ideas. Ideas are cheap. What's unique is the conviction to follow through: to work at it until it pays off. That's what separates the person who thinks I wonder why they can't just make shampoo and conditioner in one? from the one who thinks Now, should I get the Mercedes, or another BMW?"
--Scat, in Syrup by Maxx Barry
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