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by pleonasticity 389 days ago
Looks like he rediscovered Pulsed Laser Deposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_laser_deposition
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Not quite. Their process is in ambient conditions (not the vacuum of PLD) and produces molten droplets and not plasma. But for low-precision work (I deal in fractions of microns at work) this sounds like a neat & cheap DIY if you already happen to have a pulsed laser CNC setup.