[MakeLV] CNC/Laser cutting offer

[Eric ItchyD]

If Tyler can't do it for some reason I'll check around.  I'll rework it for
her tomorrow night and hopefully have a final design up soon.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Josiah Ritchie
<josiah at josiahritchie.com>wrote:

> We have a couple 3D printers. Dave Smith has a Thing-O-Matic and another
> guy offered another higher-end printer service. His email came out to the
> list so it'd be in the archives. That does look like a nice little thing to
> get printed and local may be the best bet for pre-Christmas.
>
> JSR/
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Tyler Worman <tsworman at novaslp.net>wrote:
>
>> I'll check if I can get buy the plastic from one of UM's engineering
>> departments. I'm not sure where else I would source a bit block of that. If
>> that doesn't work I could slice it and make it out of multiple pieces of
>> acrylic on the laser cutter which you then attach.
>>
>> 3rd option would be to print it on one of our printers but someone with a
>> Thingomatic could probably do that better than we could. Our stepper motor
>> driven printer has been on the fritz.
>>
>>    - Tyler
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Eric ItchyD <itchyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's a thing I designed which I kind of want to get made:
>>> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:14633
>>>
>>> Right now it's thick and chunky, if you can make it for me I would
>>> probably thin it down first. If you think you can get it to me before
>>> christmas maybe I'd write my wife's name on it. Any guess how much to get
>>> it made out of plastic? Any design tips?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Eric
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Tyler Worman <tsworman at novaslp.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm headed back to PA a few times in the next 2 weeks. If anyone needs
>>>> something laser cut or routed on a CNC machine, let me know. I'll run your
>>>> design (to the best of my ability) on AllHandsActive's equipment and bring
>>>> the pieces back with me. You pay for material, but otherwise no cost to you.
>>>>
>>>> Laser cutter has an ~8.5"x~11" cutting area.
>>>> CNC has ~12"x~17"x~2"
>>>>
>>>> Our CNC can route PCBs. Fine detail work is not possible right now. If
>>>> you have large traces with wide spacing, it should be okay. Our present
>>>> spindle has a run-out issue and makes a mess of a fine pitch board.
>>>>
>>>> If you need something bigger, TechShop Detroit and i3Detroit have much
>>>> larger setups. I'm not sure I'll be able to get it done in time but we can
>>>> discuss.
>>>>
>>>>    - Tyler
>>>>
>>>>
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