MIT’s new machine learning tool makes laser-cutting safer

If you play around to make things in a workshop, you might’ve used a laser cutter to create things at one point. Usually, you would use different materials by trial and error method to reach the desired shape and function. However, researchers from MIT are making this process safer by using machine learning. The team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has come up with a technology called SensiCut, a material sensing platform for laser cutters that warns you of potentially harmful materials.  The tool consists of low-cost hardware components such as a Raspberry Pi Zero microprocessor board hosted in…

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