> cut out a pinewood derby car design..... > bring my 3 axis router (kit built)
Given the Sherline's itsy-bitsy work envelope and nose-picking speed, I think carving out -real- Pinewood Derby cars on your router would be even better. Bolt a block to a plate, clamp the plate to the base, and then let the chips fly. How long would such a thing take? If you were excruciatingly clever, you could mill the axle supports, too, perhaps as little stubs faired out from the sides. When you're done, unbolt the block, hand the kid a finished car (with pre-drilled axle holes?) and a ziplock baggie full of wheels, nails, and an EMC sticker or two. Killer demo, if a bit noisy. We'll all be hoarse anyway. I could mill out wheels, albeit at a pathetically slow pace, by bolting plastic disks to the rotary table and carving the tread with nice algorithmic patterns. Haven't thought on it much more than that, but it'd likely be the same level of complexity as the demo-quality finger rings I keep muttering about. > for people to try installing from the Live CD > and running the simulators That would exceed the attention span of most folks, but if you'd put on a quasi-seminar showing how it's done and -then- break to the simulators, that'd be a win. Run the talk a few times during the day (with announcements on a board in the lobby and over the unintelligible PA system) and folks would flock to it. Sounds like a plan, it does indeed ... -- Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
