On Jun 1, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Jon Brock wrote:
This is what I want: http://www.zcorp.com/products/
printersdetail-450.asp?ID=1
One guy who uses it (or an earlier model) to make 3D puzzles calls
it his "Santa Claus machine." He starts it up at night and in the
morning he has the finished product waiting for him.
Yeah, but it's still $40K. When desktop models are $2K, come talk to
me. (I wonder if small 3D plastic printers, non-color, already are?
Not that I have a spare two grand right now, but that's about the
threshold between "utterly beyond the realm of possibility" and
"yeah, I might think about doing that" -- it turns out that $100 to
$125 is my "whim" pricing threshold).
Those are neat. So, too, are the projects in Digital Machinist. I
*hate* being targeted by advertising that actually works, but
evidently either Circuit Cellar or Nuts and Volts sold my name to
Digital Machinist. They sent me the free issue and I subscribed for
a year. The projects there are basically, "how to turn a regular
milling machine into a CNC mill" and I don't know how I'd ever use
one for anything other than making parts for small engine repair, but
it just seems so COOL to feed the machine a DXF (or equivalent) file
and a chunk of bar stock, and get back something complex and metal.
You can get into CNC milling for about $6,000, about $2000 if you buy
everything used and are pretty handy.
Adam
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