open source 5-axis CNC router

David Reyes Samblas Martinez david at tuxbrain.com
Fri Apr 8 14:31:14 EDT 2011


2011/4/8 jon at rejon.org <jon at rejon.org>:
> Yeah, you can see in his comment he threw out the idea even of open
> source after he didn't raise enough money. Still great to get the
> plans.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Sebastien Bourdeauducq
> <sebastien at milkymist.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Totally. I still would like to see other hardware from others go up on
> qi-hardware site.
UBB? ATBEN? ATUSB? :P
>
> Jon
>
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