makeovers can run a dremel for milling, and several CNC desktop mills exist, including one at the Asylum that does multi color plastic and milling. On Apr 6, 2013 10:27 AM, "Bill Bogstad" <bogs...@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Tom Metro <tmetro+hhack...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> If you can make a $500 3D printer in volume, then why not a similarly >> sized CNC router/mill capable of processing plastic, wood, or aluminum? >> (You can, but they aren't packaged up as a computer peripheral that sits >> on your desktop.) >> > > Not sure about that. While a 3D printer and a CNC router/mill both > require precise position of their active "heads" and the object > under construction, a 3D printer does this in an environment where the > only mechanical load on the system is gravity. A CNC device on the other > hand has to absorb the force of removing material, torque due to rotation, > etc. Maybe if you scaled down the size of the routing bit to the size of > a dental drill, you could do it without really beefy stepper motors. Hmm, > that might be the way to go actually. I wonder if you could replace the > extruding head on a 3D printer with the hand held drill bit used by a > dentist. I'm not a mech. eng. so I have no real idea if it would be > possible. > > Bill Bogstad > > > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > Hardwarehacking@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking > >
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