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Mental note: Never, ever buy anything that team is involved with. I go way back with various machines. Cutting, bending, printing, whatever. If it won't tak
by ddingus 6y ago
Mental note: Never, ever buy anything that team is involved with.
I go way back with various machines. Cutting, bending, printing, whatever.
If it won't take gcode, or some other open data to operate with, whatever it is, no matter how good it is, the answer is no.
Always no.
It has to take, gcode, svg, dxf, real postscript, hpgl, png, something. And it has to do that offline, period.
There are great machines made in the 80's still making money, and I saw one just yesterday. Wonderful to see.
Yes, I realize these are consumer grade machines, but what will also happen is these things will get abandoned.
Maybe someone will reverse engineer them and they become useful over the longer term.
I hope someone does.
- duckfang 6y agoWe're trying to make it so existing Cricut devices can be unchained from their vaporous bullshit (aka: cloud). https://discord.gg/KsReJ3cN https://discord.gg/KsReJ3cN Come help!
- ddingus 6y agoI would love to. Unfortunately, I am maxxed out. The fuck you would be worth it! Good luck!
- benrbray 6y agoDo you have any recommendations for machines that someone could reasonably fit in their home to replace a cricut?
- atian 6y agohttps://glowforge.com/our-products https://glowforge.com/our-products https://flux3dp.com/beamo/ https://flux3dp.com/beamo/ Glowforge Pro - $5,995 Glowforge Basic - $2,995 Beamo Desktop (30W) - $2,000 All-in-one laser cutter on your desk. Otherwise modifying a 3D printer (e.g. Ender 3/5) with CNC/Laser attachments work as well if your budget is much lower. :)
- duckfang 6y agoPlease note that Glowforge ALSO requires the obnoxious cloud to actually cut. And being forced to rely on "cloud" is how Cricut is able to bait-n-switch users and effectively demand more money for purchased hardware. There is absolutely 0 reason why a CNC laser cutter needs commodity internet at all. And I'd argue that an internet controlled fire-causing laser is a Bad Idea. Because Glowforge requires their server farms online, Glowforge could pull a Cricut at any moment's notice.
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoBeamo is local only through USB, I may or may not have been tempted to buy it just for that.
- cproctor 6y agoGlowforge is cloud-based too though, and doesn't accept gcode (ddingus's criterion from another comment on this post [1]). What evidence is there that Glowforge isn't just at an earlier phase of the same pattern? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26479791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26479791
- ddingus 6y agoExactly. There is no evidence. Anytime there is lock in on machines, there will eventually be rent seeking. I have zero trust on this.
- ddlsmurf 6y agoOne evidence is that glowforge open sourced their stuff, not saying it would be easy, but it does make it possible to avoid their cloud thing https://github.com/Glowforge https://github.com/Glowforge .
- ddingus 6y agoIf the cutting op protocol is exposed, that is really good. We can make a library. Nice to know.
- scoates 6y agoThe reasonably-priced response to this is the CAMEO from Silhouette.
- monknomo 6y agoUS Cutter MH series cutter would probably fit the bill. they range from small to quite large
- matt_the_bass 6y agoI have extensive experience with a nice Roland at a local Fabian. And I recently bought an MH series for home projects with the kids. I’m pleasantly surprised how good the MH is for the money! Assuming $20/birthday present, the machine will easily pay for itself in a year of gift making. Plus I get the kids to help make their friends gifts unique rather than buying something from a store. That is priceless to me!
- AdamJacobMuller 6y agoWhat is a Fabian?
- Symbiote 6y agoPerhaps a typing / autocorrect error for Fablab: https://www.fablabs.io/ https://www.fablabs.io/ In other words, a type of maker space / hackspace.
- matt_the_bass 6y agoYup. Good catch!
- matt_the_bass 6y agoSorry. Should have been fab lab
- supermatt 6y agoWill it register and cut out a print (contour cut)? I love the cameo silhouette for that, but dont see it mentioned for the MH.
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- sllabres 6y agoHappy user of silhouette.
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