open source 5-axis CNC router

Sebastien Bourdeauducq sebastien at milkymist.org
Fri Apr 8 07:18:19 EDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 23:26 -0500, jon at rejon.org wrote:
> Crap, they didn't get enough money :(
> 
> They should try http://pledgie.com

Not sure this would be any more successful... open hardware geeks are
cheap, period! Anything significantly more expensive or complicated to
build than an AVR breakout has little chance of working with them.

No geek would build that CNC machine. It's too expensive (and lacks the
romantic cliché of "I build cool stuff with scrap parts that the evil
consumer society carelessly throws away") and it's too complicated.

IMO the Qi Hardware goal and approach is good: mass produce professional
open devices that could be made cheap, while still allowing the minority
of companies and people who are interested in the open design to benefit
from it.

It's the normal - and proven - hardware industry upgraded to the age of
the copyleft and Internet :)

S.





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