It’s an interesting idea though I don’t know why ordinary chalk wouldn’t have been better.
I’ve never heard of http://jscut.org/ either though so that’s cool.
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I remember watching the original, I guess 4 years ago. Bonkers idea, and even more bonkers to build it all over again. Guy is brilliant, and yeah, I want one too.
But…I should probably finish the wiring on my Primo first.
I keep telling myself I need to stop adding projects. So I spent the weekend setting up some TurnkeyLinux containers on Proxmox on an old Intel NUC in preparation for either building or buying a NAS/Homeserver.
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Oh boy, not for me!
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That’s cool!
When I was a kid, my room was the only thing I could control. So I would occasionally rearrange the furniture just to have something I was in charge of. I didn’t care if it was optimal. I just wanted something different.
If I could change a bench into a desk or bookshelf. i would have loved that.
Now that I have control of (and have to maintain) my whole house, I doubt I would want this system. But it sure seems like fun.
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Going to try some of this stuff
Seems neat, I will see what my kiddo comes up with for projects.
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700W laser welder. He shows it doing an ok job with 10mm mild steel, a pretty remarkable job with sheet metals, cuts some 6mm mild steel really well and does some laser cleaning/rust removal.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/16159264/xlaser-the-ultimate-4-in-1-laser-welding-revolution
US$1.9k for the smaller version, US$2.7k for the gruntier pro version from the video.
Iiiiiiiinteresting…
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Okay, so I can ditch my plasma cutter and tigwelder. Repurpose my water table and get rid of all the stuff needed for linuxcnc and the THC. I am currently limited to about 10mm steel, I can be just fine with 6mm.
WOW, that is extremely tempting. I am not excited about kickstarter but shoot that looks to be very versatile.
Tig on aluminum takes a ton of prep, watching him slap together two dirty raw pieces was pretty amazing.
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dang, you got some stufffff!!!
That is super rad! Also I’d never seen this channel before but he has some cool stuff!
I had TIG welding on my list of things to learn so I could goof around with aluminum but why do that when I could get a friggin laser???
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I just got it as a random recommendation, I’ve not checked out any of his other stuff but he seems pretty straightforward.
Yeah, I hear you for sure. I was looking for a TIG/plasma setup a few months back. This looks like it’s much lighter duty at only 700W input power but so much cleaner/easier and more CNCable that it’d be a worthwhile consideration.
I don’t think their ‘50% discount for kickstarter backers’ is anything other than marketing, I’d guess it’ll end up retailing at near their max kickstarter price so I’d be happy enough waiting and seeing.
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Tig welding aluminum is so much fun!! I need to get a smaller one my big old girl hums great and will work forever but the power bill gets a bit high. There is a product we use called aluma prep
It’s basically an etch that eats the oxide off. It’s what we use before we conversion coat the aluminum. But it works good as a prep for welding and also polishing. It’s similar to what the truckers use on their wheels and fuel tanks.
One good thing about a welder with an eye ontop for lifting is no one asks to borrow it tho.
The new inverter style machines make it a heck of a lot easier with the cleaning and pulse control. My old solid state guy is fixed at 60hz but she can weld up a tank at 370 amps 60% duty.
Oh and “bar keepers friend” that’s a good cleaner as well.
I really want someone who is smarter than me to make a diy edm machine maybe have it on a lr4 that would be wild.
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Sounds like I need that!
Here you go, you can have a 4’x8’ Wire EDM. PREORDER - Powercore V2 – Rack Robo
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Yessss so cool thanks !!!
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I’m on their discord. 
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The entire video is pretty good if you like watching refurbishing stuff. But the part I copied the video to start at was really neat. I never knew a software like that existed and it seemed to work really well for his particular use case.
heh, I just watched that yesterday
Also, that’s a good saw. Used to have one, now my dad has it.
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Kind of a neat idea
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That’s really awesome. Great use of multiple disciplines.