After looking at the Kickstarter I'm nervous about these folks' ability to deliver, and maybe a little puzzled about price. That said, it would be fun to have a filament winder in the EPL. IDK. --Bart
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Nathan Bergey <[email protected]> wrote: > I was chatting about filament winders today and someone showed me this > one that is on kickstarter right now: > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1157143472/x-winder-the-worlds-first-desktop-filament-winder > > > Should PSAS pitch some money at it? > > One the one hand I'm not sure it's robust and well tested enough to be > worth it, but on the other hand we wouldn't have to make one. On the > other-other hand, we wouldn't get to make one :-) > > Also there is the whole kickstarter thing, like will it get funded and > how far behind in fulfillment they end up. > > I'm pretty sensitive to the build vs buy argument. I hate spending > *large* amounts of time on things we could conceivable buy. So I'm > tempted to recommend this or try and find some other cheap COTS > winder. But how cheap is worth it? > > I wonder if anyone has any thoughts about this? > > > -Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > psas-airframe mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-airframe _______________________________________________ psas-airframe mailing list [email protected] http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-airframe
