https://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=MakerBotNumberNine&action=history&feed=atomMakerBotNumberNine - Revision history2024-03-29T11:48:09ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.7.1https://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=MakerBotNumberNine&diff=1867&oldid=prevAndrewPlumb at 17:37, 14 May 20102010-05-14T17:37:42Z<p></p>
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AndrewPlumbhttps://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=MakerBotNumberNine&diff=1743&oldid=prevAndrewPlumb: /* Engineering in Society */2009-10-18T01:28:30Z<p><span class="autocomment">Engineering in Society</span></p>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">** Reputation management</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">** Reputation management</td></tr>
<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">** Dispute resolution</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">** Dispute resolution</td></tr>
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AndrewPlumbhttps://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=MakerBotNumberNine&diff=1742&oldid=prevAndrewPlumb: /* My Process */2009-10-18T01:27:46Z<p><span class="autocomment">My Process</span></p>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">** I draw rulers. Lots of rulers. Rulers are the anchors that keep everything snap-positioned and sized properly.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">** I draw rulers. Lots of rulers. Rulers are the anchors that keep everything snap-positioned and sized properly.</td></tr>
<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">* The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA Collada] (DAE) format Sketchup uses happens to be XML. XML is easy to parse in nearly any scripting language, and XSL Transforms make for some pretty powerful ways to manipulate XML source in something as simple as a web browser, Java, and/or command-line xlstproc.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">* The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA Collada] (DAE) format Sketchup uses happens to be XML. XML is easy to parse in nearly any scripting language, and XSL Transforms make for some pretty powerful ways to manipulate XML source in something as simple as a web browser, Java, and/or command-line xlstproc.</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">Once upon a time, I used to be intimately familiar with control system design. Not so much now as my career path has diverged from my original studies. MakerBot presents me with an opportunity to get back in touch with those weaker synapses and perhaps form some new ones in the process.</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">=== Hypothetical: MakerBot; A Study In Undergraduate Engineering and Education Systems ===</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">Makerbot presents a unique platform upon which multiple engineering disciplines can collaborate and explore basic principles and interdependencies. The process also serves as a bridge into related studies in arts and humanities.</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">==== Mechanical Engineering ====</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Mechanical CAD</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Construction + Tolerances</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Static vs. Dynamic Analysis</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Thermal management</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">==== Electrical Engineering ====</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Schematics</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Capture</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Simulation</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* PCB Layout</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Parts selection + tradeoffs</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Physical design considerations</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*** Trace widths</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*** Design for manufacturing and assembly</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Circuit Construction</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** SMD techniques</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Test and measurement debug</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Twist wires together to reduce noise sensitivity.</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">==== Materials Engineering ====</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Extrusion system design</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Materials selection</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Modulation schemes</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Application specific language parsing</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Geometric analysis and algorithms</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Optimal tool path trajectories</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Source code revision control strategies</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Open Source</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Software strategies and trade-offs</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Hardware strategies and trade-offs</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Intellectual Property</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Copyright</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*** Creative commons</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*** Public domain</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Industrial Design</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">** Patents</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Community</td></tr>
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AndrewPlumbhttps://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=MakerBotNumberNine&diff=1741&oldid=prevAndrewPlumb: /* To Do List */2009-10-16T02:34:59Z<p><span class="autocomment">To Do List</span></p>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">* Case designs for my Sparkfun breakout boards.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">* Case designs for my Sparkfun breakout boards.</td></tr>
<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">* Case designs for some little micro-LCD units I have.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">* Case designs for some little micro-LCD units I have.</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">== Ramp Up the Canadian Contingent ==</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Created the [http://groups.google.com/group/canadareprap Canadian RepRap Operators] Google Group to coordinate meets, materials and making in Canada.</td></tr>
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AndrewPlumbhttps://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=MakerBotNumberNine&diff=1740&oldid=prevAndrewPlumb: /* What Was I Thinking? */2009-10-13T02:38:55Z<p><span class="autocomment">What Was I Thinking?</span></p>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">I was fortunate to be going through university in the early '90s right when Linux was making the rounds - [http://www.mast.queensu.ca/meng/ Math and Engineering], Control and Communications Systems program at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. (Cool! There wasn't a Control and Robotics option back then.) That box of a hundred-odd 3.5" floppies landed on my desk and I was plunged into the second emerging wave of Open Source software - the first being the BSD origins of UNIX. With healthy [http://wiki.makerbot.com/ wiki], [http://wiki.makerbot.com/forum:start forum], [http://groups.google.com/group/makerbot google group] and [http://twitter.com/makerbot twitter] [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=makerbot extended] participation (to name a few channels), the [http://reprap.org/ RepRap]+[http://www.makerbot.com/ MakerBot]+[http://www.thingiverse.com/ Thingiverse] projects feel like they could be leading a third wave of open source innovation and community.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">I was fortunate to be going through university in the early '90s right when Linux was making the rounds - [http://www.mast.queensu.ca/meng/ Math and Engineering], Control and Communications Systems program at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. (Cool! There wasn't a Control and Robotics option back then.) That box of a hundred-odd 3.5" floppies landed on my desk and I was plunged into the second emerging wave of Open Source software - the first being the BSD origins of UNIX. With healthy [http://wiki.makerbot.com/ wiki], [http://wiki.makerbot.com/forum:start forum], [http://groups.google.com/group/makerbot google group] and [http://twitter.com/makerbot twitter] [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=makerbot extended] participation (to name a few channels), the [http://reprap.org/ RepRap]+[http://www.makerbot.com/ MakerBot]+[http://www.thingiverse.com/ Thingiverse] projects feel like they could be leading a third wave of open source innovation and community.</td></tr>
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<tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">ShopBot was a possibility, but even the small model would have taken up sizable space in the garage. With small children in the house, noise was a significant factor; subtractive CNC is rarely quiet. A laser cutter would have been cool, but I couldn't justify the cash with a service like Ponoko at hand with a broader range of materials and community experience to pull on. They do steel too!</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[http://www.shopbot.com/ </span>ShopBot<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">] </span>was a possibility, but even the small model would have taken up sizable space in the garage. With small children in the house, noise was a significant factor; subtractive CNC is rarely quiet. A laser cutter would have been cool, but I couldn't justify the cash with a service like <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[http://www.ponoko.com/ </span>Ponoko<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">] </span>at hand with a broader range of materials and community experience to pull on. They do steel too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">I watched Desktop Factory development make progress and start taking pre-orders but couldn't bring myself to pull that trigger. There were too many unknowns for me around input material which made it feel too much like the old 2D printer ink/toner game; we'll sell you the printer cheap and make money on the proprietary ink/toner cartridges. Also, with an opaque development process it's hard to grow a community beyond the hard-core, existing (ab)users of the tech.</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">I watched <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[http://www.google.com/search?q=</span>Desktop<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">+</span>Factory <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Desktop Factory] </span>development make progress and start taking pre-orders but couldn't bring myself to pull that trigger. There were too many unknowns for me around input material which made it feel too much like the old 2D printer ink/toner game; we'll sell you the printer cheap and make money on the proprietary ink/toner cartridges. Also, with an opaque development process it's hard to grow a community beyond the hard-core, existing (ab)users of the tech.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">I've been a closet Industrial Design (ID) enthusiast for years. The local ID school (http://id.carleton.ca/) recently started a Masters program, but what with parental obligations and startup-style work schedules there's little time left to entertain that sort of additional commitment. My Makerbot provides me with an outlet to explore the whole design process at my own pace. Perhaps one day I'll enroll... At least by then I'll have something in the way of a portfolio!</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">I've been a closet Industrial Design (ID) enthusiast for years. The local ID school (http://id.carleton.ca/) recently started a Masters program, but what with parental obligations and startup-style work schedules there's little time left to entertain that sort of additional commitment. My Makerbot provides me with an outlet to explore the whole design process at my own pace. Perhaps one day I'll enroll... At least by then I'll have something in the way of a portfolio!</td></tr>
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AndrewPlumbhttps://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=MakerBotNumberNine&diff=1739&oldid=prevAndrewPlumb: /* What Was I Thinking? */2009-10-13T02:36:45Z<p><span class="autocomment">What Was I Thinking?</span></p>
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<tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">I was fortunate to be going through university in the early '90s right when Linux was making the rounds - [http://www.mast.queensu.ca/meng/ Math and Engineering], Control and Communications Systems program at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. (Cool! There wasn't a Control and Robotics option back then.) That box of a hundred-odd 3.5" floppies landed on my desk and I was plunged into the second emerging wave of Open Source software - the first being the BSD origins of UNIX. With healthy wiki, forum, <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">google </span>groups and twitter extended participation (to name a few channels), the RepRap+MakerBot projects feel like they could be a third wave of open source innovation and community.</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">I was fortunate to be going through university in the early '90s right when Linux was making the rounds - [http://www.mast.queensu.ca/meng/ Math and Engineering], Control and Communications Systems program at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. (Cool! There wasn't a Control and Robotics option back then.) That box of a hundred-odd 3.5" floppies landed on my desk and I was plunged into the second emerging wave of Open Source software - the first being the BSD origins of UNIX. With healthy <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[http://</span>wiki<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">.makerbot.com/ wiki]</span>, <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[http://wiki.makerbot.com/forum:start </span>forum<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">]</span>, <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[http://</span>groups<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">.google.com/group/makerbot google group] </span>and <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[http://</span>twitter<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">.com/makerbot twitter] [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=makerbot </span>extended<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">] </span>participation (to name a few channels), the <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[http://reprap.org/ </span>RepRap<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">]</span>+<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[http://www.makerbot.com/ </span>MakerBot<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">]+[http://www.thingiverse.com/ Thingiverse] </span>projects feel like they could be <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">leading </span>a third wave of open source innovation and community.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">ShopBot was a possibility, but even the small model would have taken up sizable space in the garage. With small children in the house, noise was a significant factor; subtractive CNC is rarely quiet. A laser cutter would have been cool, but I couldn't justify the cash with a service like Ponoko at hand with a broader range of materials and community experience to pull on. They do steel too!</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">ShopBot was a possibility, but even the small model would have taken up sizable space in the garage. With small children in the house, noise was a significant factor; subtractive CNC is rarely quiet. A laser cutter would have been cool, but I couldn't justify the cash with a service like Ponoko at hand with a broader range of materials and community experience to pull on. They do steel too!</td></tr>
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AndrewPlumbhttps://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=MakerBotNumberNine&diff=1738&oldid=prevAndrewPlumb: /* What Was I Thinking? */2009-10-13T02:32:59Z<p><span class="autocomment">What Was I Thinking?</span></p>
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<tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">I was fortunate to be going through university in the early '90s right when Linux was making the rounds - [http://www.mast.queensu.ca/meng/ Math and Engineering], Control and Communications Systems program at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. (Cool! There wasn't a Control and Robotics option back then.) That box of a hundred-odd 3.5" floppies landed on my desk and I was plunged into the second emerging wave of Open Source software - the first being the BSD origins of UNIX. With healthy wiki, forum, google groups and twitter<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">-based </span>extended participation, the RepRap+MakerBot projects feel like they could be a third wave of open source innovation and community.</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">I was fortunate to be going through university in the early '90s right when Linux was making the rounds - [http://www.mast.queensu.ca/meng/ Math and Engineering], Control and Communications Systems program at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. (Cool! There wasn't a Control and Robotics option back then.) That box of a hundred-odd 3.5" floppies landed on my desk and I was plunged into the second emerging wave of Open Source software - the first being the BSD origins of UNIX. With healthy wiki, forum, google groups and twitter extended participation <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(to name a few channels)</span>, the RepRap+MakerBot projects feel like they could be a third wave of open source innovation and community.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">ShopBot was a possibility, but even the small model would have taken up sizable space in the garage. With small children in the house, noise was a significant factor; subtractive CNC is rarely quiet. A laser cutter would have been cool, but I couldn't justify the cash with a service like Ponoko at hand with a broader range of materials and community experience to pull on. They do steel too!</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">ShopBot was a possibility, but even the small model would have taken up sizable space in the garage. With small children in the house, noise was a significant factor; subtractive CNC is rarely quiet. A laser cutter would have been cool, but I couldn't justify the cash with a service like Ponoko at hand with a broader range of materials and community experience to pull on. They do steel too!</td></tr>
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AndrewPlumbhttps://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=MakerBotNumberNine&diff=1737&oldid=prevAndrewPlumb: /* What Was I Thinking? */2009-10-13T02:32:27Z<p><span class="autocomment">What Was I Thinking?</span></p>
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<tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">I was fortunate to be going through university in the early '90s right when Linux was making the rounds - [http://www.mast.queensu.ca/meng/ Math and Engineering], Control and Communications Systems program at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. (Cool! There wasn't a Control and Robotics option back then.) That box of a hundred-odd 3.5" floppies landed on my desk and I was plunged into the second emerging wave of Open Source software - the first being the BSD origins of UNIX. <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">The </span>RepRap+MakerBot projects feel like they could be a third wave of open source innovation and community.</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">I was fortunate to be going through university in the early '90s right when Linux was making the rounds - [http://www.mast.queensu.ca/meng/ Math and Engineering], Control and Communications Systems program at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. (Cool! There wasn't a Control and Robotics option back then.) That box of a hundred-odd 3.5" floppies landed on my desk and I was plunged into the second emerging wave of Open Source software - the first being the BSD origins of UNIX. <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">With healthy wiki, forum, google groups and twitter-based extended participation, the </span>RepRap+MakerBot projects feel like they could be a third wave of open source innovation and community.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">ShopBot was a possibility, but even the small model would have taken up sizable space in the garage. With small children in the house, noise was a significant factor; subtractive CNC is rarely quiet. A laser cutter would have been cool, but I couldn't justify the cash with a service like Ponoko at hand with a broader range of materials and community experience to pull on. They do steel too!</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">ShopBot was a possibility, but even the small model would have taken up sizable space in the garage. With small children in the house, noise was a significant factor; subtractive CNC is rarely quiet. A laser cutter would have been cool, but I couldn't justify the cash with a service like Ponoko at hand with a broader range of materials and community experience to pull on. They do steel too!</td></tr>
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AndrewPlumbhttps://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=MakerBotNumberNine&diff=1736&oldid=prevAndrewPlumb: /* MakerBot Number Nine - WORK IN PROGRESS */2009-10-13T02:26:20Z<p><span class="autocomment">MakerBot Number Nine - WORK IN PROGRESS</span></p>
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<tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">= MakerBot Number Nine <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">- WORK IN PROGRESS </span>=</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">= MakerBot Number Nine =</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">Technically it's a MakerBot Cupcake CNC but, since it's from the first batch (Serial Number 09) of the first product released by MakerBot Industries, I call it MakerBot Number Nine because it defines what MakerBot is all about.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">Technically it's a MakerBot Cupcake CNC but, since it's from the first batch (Serial Number 09) of the first product released by MakerBot Industries, I call it MakerBot Number Nine because it defines what MakerBot is all about.</td></tr>
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