That matches what I saw to a large extent. We had to translate what they knew about 3D printing and computers to milling.
Although, as the day went on, our demographics started skewing older. The working theory for that is that the 20-year olds loved the technology. The older ones loved making things and were looking for *how* to make things. (Show me a 3D printer owned by a 20-something year old and I will show you 100 half formed Yoda's. They are looking for things to make on a 3D printer. They tend to fit their jobs to the technology). I look at the world of CNC and see things like the cricut and see it selling in Hobby Lobby and it's aimed directly at scrapbookers. Sold by the thousands. They put all their work into the usability of the system. But, yeah.. we gave out over 200 business cards - over 10% of the adults of the Faire - and they all wanted appliance like behavior. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:54 AM, John Alexander Stewart <ivatt...@gmail.com>wrote: > Charles; > > I did that last August 30 /September 1 long weekend in Ottawa Canada. > > I had a little CNC'd Unimat lathe running LinuxCNC. > > Generally: > > 1) People under 30 knew about the computerization but said "what's that > machine supposed to do?" > > 2) People over 30 either had a Unimat when they were kids (especially those > in their retired years) and knew all about lathes, but not about the > computers! > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most > from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
