Inspired by Iron Man's robot arms, the author explores building a real manufacturing configuration management system using ROS robotics framework.

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The author refactored their internal "automated CIO" infrastructure from bash scripts to Rust with a centralized database, improving speed and reliability.

Author researched 3D printing tech and bought two printers using different methods: FDM (material extrusion) and SLA (vat polymerization).

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