/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>700534
>Is there any advantage to or modern application of oxyacetylene welding?

two advantages
the main one is portability, I have a tiny tank rig, 15ft of hose, it all fits in a 5 gallon bucket and gives me 30 min. weighs 25lbs total. I can throw it in the truck and take it anywhere.

2nd advantage, I can CUT.

plus overall versatility, heat, braze, weld & cut.

learn all of the welding techniques you can anon,
oxy / acetylene
stick
Mig / wire
Tig

even the weird shit like spin welding


I found Tig to be very much like oxy / acetylene in that you had a heat source in one hand and filler rod in the other.

any welders who dealt with welders flash before

Hi, /diy/

Not sure if this is the right board to ask, but I'll try. So I have an old combine harvester and I would like to make it smartharvester (like a smartphone :--DD)
I would like to buy some of these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10pcs-LJ12A3-4-Z-AY-Inductive-Proximity-Sensor-Detection-Switch-PNP-DC6-36V-/350689552443?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item51a6b9e83b and some temperature sensors and somehow make all the readings of these sensors appear on my Android smartphone or tablet. Is this doable? Is there a way to access these sensors from Android via USB or Bluetooth? If it is impossible, then there is Andruino?

In my dream I see me writing an app for tablet which would read the sensors and give me warnings if there would be too little or too much RPMs, or too high temperature.

Pic unrelated, just some close-up of welding