[h2odragon]

Pratchett's "Wooly Thinking" was the 2nd version of the idea, much more popular, took over the world immediately after he coined the phrase.

Thruly, tho look at things like QAM encoding schemes and the tricks stepper motor controllers are doing. We have found ways to analog-ize a lot of things that were formerly viwed as totally digital; which i think is what the "fuzzy logic" hype boiled down to anyway.

[stargrazer]

Would you be able to supply a reference to some of the tricks of stepper motor controllers?

[h2odragon]

See "microstepping controllers" where they're presenting a digital control (steps) to varying levels of holding current in the actual motor. AFAIK its the trick that enabled 3d printing without position sensing.

[friendzis]

Microstepping is adding virtual half-steps (or even further) to stepper motors. It "merely" enhances resolution and vibration characteristics of the motor. Microstepping itself is not strictly necessary for 3D printing without position feedback