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Claude in the Physical World: Relays, Valves & Actuatorsadvanced · ~360 min

Which Gate Did You Leave Open — Blast Gates That Move Themselves and Prove They Moved

A blast gate is the least interesting object in a workshop and the one that ruins the most weekends. So why does an entire dust-collection system still depend on a person remembering which handle to pull — and what would a machine have to prove before you'd let it pull the handles instead of you?

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Which Gate Did You Leave Open — Blast Gates That Move Themselves and Prove They Moved
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A dust-collection sequencer that Claude Code built with you — a Raspberry Pi that notices which tool just came on by reading listed metering plugs over your own network, drives that tool's blast gate open with a 12 V linear actuator, closes the branch that was open before it, and refuses to call any gate open until two independent witnesses agree: the actuator's current trace says the blade ran its full travel and stopped against its end stop, and the duct's static pressure moved in the direction that gate change should have caused. It holds exactly one branch open so the ducts stay above chip-transport velocity, never switches the power of a tool or of the collector, tells you when a tool is cutting with nothing behind it, and when it cannot prove where a blade actually is, it stops guessing, latches into manual mode, and asks you to pull four clevis pins and run your own shop by hand.