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Have you seen Shapeoko? They will soon have their third iteration, but even the second one is great...
by syntern 12y ago
Have you seen Shapeoko? They will soon have their third iteration, but even the second one is great...
- rikkipitt 12y agoThat's a lovely looking piece of kit, have you had the opportunity to play with one?
- syntern 12y agoYes, I am halfway to assemble it (done the mechanics, now comes the belts and wires).
- rikkipitt 12y agoLet me know how it goes and what you think of it. I'm really interested to hear more about it.
- wlesieutre 12y agoMy local makerspace has one, though I've not tried it myself. IIRC it's using a custom bracket (3d printed) to hold our dremel, but is otherwise should be standard. The one problem I remember seeing was when somebody's laptop was running it and went to sleep and they weren't able to get it to resume the job when it woke up. Maybe there's a way to do it, but just making sure your computer is set to stay awake avoids the issue entirely.
- thawkins 12y agoMost 3d printers which also use gcode, have an sdcard slot. Load your gcode file onto the sdcard, plug it into the printer and print from there. You dont need a computer connected at all, so nothing to go to sleep.
- wlesieutre 12y agoThe 3d printers, yes. The Shapeoko 2 runs off of an arduino and gets its data over a serial connection. At least that's my understanding of it. I've never used it myself, only watched it run for other people.
- cproctor 12y agoI'm a middle-school CS teacher; the woodshop teacher and I have been collaborating on using a Shakeoko at our school. It works great! http://burks.girlsms.org/maker/?p=115 http://burks.girlsms.org/maker/?p=115