[Noisebridge-discuss] laser cutter.... CNC plasma cutter for the boxshop

[Michael Shiloh]

IIRC, BoxShop (Boxshop?) was getting a CNC plasma cutter, not a laser.

I don't know of any laser cutter in SF available to people like me.

If I could have one tool for my Kinetic and Electronics department at 
The Crucible, I'd ask for a laser cutter.

just saying.

Mark Cohen wrote:
> Neither the BoxShop or TechShop are easily accessible for me as well  
> as others I am sure. Also, to use TechShop's equipment, you have to  
> pay substantial dues. (I don't know what BoxShop charges)
> 
> I'd like to see NB get some really nice fab machinery, it would only  
> improve the work that comes out of NB.
> 
> Just my .02.
> 
> /Mark/
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 28, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Ceren Ercen wrote:
> 
>> With the richness of resources around the SF Bay Area, BoxShop,
>> TechShop, etc, I personally just don't feel any urge to have a
>> lasercutter at Noisebridge. These are amazing tools, but having our
>> /own/ seems a little redundant.
>>
>> But I must be missing something, or there wouldn't be so much  
>> excitement
>> about the idea.... is there a substantial benefit to not going to use
>> these other places' machinery, and buying/running/maintaining our own
>> instead?
>>
>> Can we quantify what the factors are that make some items more
>> attractive to host our own copy of, and which tools we can try to
>> establish "links" to through the local community?
>>
>> - ceren
>>
>> Lee Sonko wrote:
>>> In news related to laser cutters... it looks like the BoxShop, a  
>>> great
>>> industrial arts space in Hunters Point (http://boxshopsf.org/) will  
>>> be
>>> getting a CNC plasma cutter soon! Read on...
>>>
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