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Cakefoot - rotary asteroid mining ship

Cakefoot is a rotary mining ship designed for digging out large quantities of rock without too much PCU.

About 2.3k PCU cost, 80-ish blocks.
Uses a Programmable Block script, but can be operated without it.
Makes use of one mod: stone dusters. It'll work fine without the stone dusters, but you'll have to find some way of getting rid of a lot of stone. Plus, the programmable block is attached to the stone dusters, so it will probably fall off if those get erased. :)

To use it:
- fly up to an asteroid
- extend the foot piston (press 1 on toolbar #4)
- lock the foot to the asteroid (buttons 1 and 2 on toolbar #1)
- switch off the engines and gyroscopes! (buttons 8 and 9 on toolbar #1)
- invoke the PB called "Cake Spiral Cut Program" with the argument "start" (button 2 on toolbar #4)
- it'll slowly spin around and cut out a circular section of the asteroid over the next 5 minutes
- go knit something while you wait
- when it finishes, it'll turn off the rotor and the drills
- get back in
- unlock the foot
- turn the engines and gyroscopes back on
- manually fly back a bit
- cut down the stick left behind in the middle (drills are buttons 1 and 2 on toolbar #2)
- find another place to dock and dig some more :)

Source for the PB code at: https://dev.azure.com/0x2ba22e11/_git/QuackMesa?path=%2FCakeSpiral%2FProgram.cs&version=GBmaster