[Noisebridge-discuss] Laser Cutter!

[Mikolaj Habryn]

One of the things they say repeatedly at the TechShop laser cutter SBU
is that this is one of the few machines that is highly likely to burn
your building down, and therefore it's critical to only run it closely
supervised. Perhaps it might be better, given our mercurial
membership, to have it installed somewhere central and visible to
maximize the chance that when the material inside catches fire,
somebody will notice and extinguish it before it causes too much
damage?

m.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think having a laser cutter in the space would be awesome.  Unfortunately,
> with the uncertainty my life holds right now, I don't know how much I could
> pledge to support myself.
>
>> As for funding, why don't we set up a deadline (Halloween?) and see
>> how much dosh we have. I'm all for cheap and cheerful if we can't
>> afford top of the line, but there's nothing like a crappy tool to make
>> you appreciate a good one.
>
> More than that, there's nothing that discourages a new enthusiastic user
> more than the difficulties associated with trying to make a crappy tool
> work.  I think the advice on what can be used to drive these things is
> really important.  A laser cutter that just sits around because we have to
> have a machine that runs windows 3.11 and has a floppy drive that nobody
> wants to set up is not going to be very useful.  (I know a certain 3-axis
> mill that has spent a lot of time sitting around because of similar
> reasons.)
>
> Christie
>
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