[–] 2 points 1 week ago

There's a certain amount of permitted lost/non-functional products off a manufacturing line. They don't make the machines as precise and perfect as they can, that costs too much, they make them as fast and cheap as possible and if 5% of the widgets get busted or don't work it's likely an acceptable margin of failure to just reject those and move on.

It'd cost more to make the machines better than to just throw those items away or scrap them to some company that could fix or repurpose them.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Why do you think they would have an actual console that they get inserted into?

    It's quite likely they have a programming and/or test system that let's it get automatically inserted, and then programmed with the software and validated that it wrote correctly, maybe some self-test operation, and then packaged and shipped.

    As for line straightness, machines aren't perfect either, if it doesn't have to be perfectly straight it likely won't be, why would they spend time making the machine grab the cartridge exactly the same way every time to make straight lines if it works just fine without being perfectly straight?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I think the biggest thing I notice is that there are adjacent droplets that are touching, that you've painted as two separate drops/spheres.

    But when water drops touch in real life they combine because of the surface tension, so any two drops that are touching shouldn't exist but instead just be one bigger droplet.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I read that they would also make a "beeline" for the best food option, which if it's that, means they wouldn't be pollinating flowers, just feeding on the new food. So probably better as a tool for beekeepers, so they can still go pollinate flowers

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