[Noisebridge-discuss] Other Mill for Noisebridge?

[Jake]

whatever, at sudoroom we have an n-axis CNC mill with a work envelope in 
the cubic meters - it's called a Yaskawa Motoman K10S and it can aim the 
tool in an arbitrary vector and nearly arbitrary location.

http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Giant_robot_arm

-jake

On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, Adam Munich wrote:

> 
> I'm just gonna leave this here.
> 
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1090944145/pocket-nc-the-first-5-axis-cnc-mill-for-your-deskt
> 
> On Jun 29, 2015 12:09 AM, "Jake" <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>       On 06/28/2015 05:07 PM, Mitch Altman wrote:
>             Other Mill is a robust CNC milling machine made by a small company
>             here in the Mission.
>
>             Maybe you saw it when they came to Noisebridge a few months ago and
>             gave a demo.  It's really nice for making PCBs (amongst other things).
>
>             They really want to sell us one of their machines, at a 5%
>             discount.  That would come to ~$2,100.
>
>             Do you think there's enough interest for raising the funds to get one
>             for Noisebridge?
> 
>
>       The MaxNC mill is still at noisebridge in the dirty shop, and it's better than the othermill in every way, and did i mention we already have it?
>
>       https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/MaxNCMill
>
>       it was semi-recently used to make keys:
>
>       https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Key_Milling
>
>       I think noisebridge could get much more interesting things for $2100 than another mill, but we would have to think creatively and put time into playing
>       with them.  I would say we should get a pick-n-place machine but we just got one donated!  So instead, put your time into learning and teaching CAD
>       software (like KiCAD which is FOSS) and making circuitboards, and having the machine put the parts on!
>
>       also, i was really turned off by the othermill because the authors said the software was ONLY for macOS, and when i asked if the machine worked with
>       regular G-code (on other platforms) they straight-up DIDN'T KNOW.
>       Also, their software is closed-source!  WTF?
>
>       so while i like the idea and i think it's cute, i don't think noisebridge needs one at all.
>
>       noisebridge needs hackers to go there and hack on stuff, like the MaxNC mill and the new Pick-n-place machine.
>
>       -jake
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