Heyoh!
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If only we had the means by which to build some sort of robot(s) that could help us with repetitive tasks.
I joke but I know how difficult that task truly is. Sounds like you need to hire some child labor. Any teenagers around that would like making a few bucks under the table?
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The biggest issue with that is the insurances and taxes. At the $600 dollar per year mark you have to file paperwork, much above that you have to hire them. So business insurance goes way up if they work here, workers comp ~2%, taxes ~15%, sick leave, I have to change my “simple” no employees other than owner retirement plan to a “real” one, and payroll $45/month.
Tricky… I am sure it would be worth it. I was planning on hiring someone when I got back from MRRF 2020…then well we couldn’t. So we will see how this year starts to play out and it is a possibility soon. I want to make more things and take 2 days off a week.
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Ryan,
Since you are looking to retire the LR2 and launch a new design, would you consider bringing your new idea for the design to the forum for brainstorming? I’m a recent adopter of LR2 and have built it into a foam cutting machine to make large (88"x35"x6" is my bed currently) plugs and molds. Since building it in November, it’s been running pretty much every day since. I have a lot of ideas to enhance / improve it (for my application), but have not had the bandwidth to implement the changes.
Would it make sense to bring your new design to your customer base in the design phase, so all of us LR2 owners could help drive the design?
Despite being stuck with Marlin mode, and having the screen go glitchy on occasion (freezes, but finished the routine), I’ve made the LR2 an intricate part of my business. I would happily pay twice as much for the kit. Of course I would rather not…
Looking forward to hearing what the LR3 will be all about!
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I am not sure how I am going to do that. We do have an idea thread already started. Most of it is standard requests, things like horizontal are always suggested but always a maybe.
For this one I need to work on my main idea, if it works I will probably start asking very specific questions about the design at that time.
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I’d like to see an LR3 with a built in coffee maker, and maybe a toaster. Thank you.
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I would like to make it about 30’x40’. I am tired of paying non-robots to mow my lawn.
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I have to believe you’ve seen this already, but…
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I’ve been wanting an ultra efficient watering system, that I figure could double as a mower. That might have to be the next project. Autonomous lawn butler with water and power umbilical.
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Battery power, and an directionally controlled laminar flow fountain to deliver the water to a funnel on the top of the mobile cutting/watering head and you can eliminate the umbilical.
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That would be awesome! So two robots Laminar Lenny, who squirts water to the butler when needed
and some sort of lawn butler, butler Bill, that gently trims and waters at the same time. Butler Bill would have a drooling problem that we could take advantage of.
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Maybe you could modify a sprinkler with a gimbal to shoot the water over to the robot so that it can water the grass.
That just sounds like watering with extra steps.
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But it’s the extra steps that make it a fun thought exercise.
All I can say I’m very disappointed, and with the greatest of respect that’s an engineer’s solution to the problem. It’s a sort of band aid solution which doesn’t address the root cause.
Faced with the same problem, I got rid of the lawn.
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I caught that…
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you could stop watering the lawn. All it takes is a little time, then you can stop mowing too!
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Thanks for the advice, everyone. But I have my heart set on a MowRider.
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This seems like a perfect fit for the pillar method these guys use. I saw them at the last maker faire I went to. Goliath CNC router machine overview | Goliath It drives itself but uses to tethered pillars to keep track of the actual movements. Heck use them to feed in the power and a small water line and we have a winner.
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