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i'm looking for a small laser cutter or cnc mill and i figured this might be somewhat within the thread's scope we got a side project at the office that involves custom ink stamps and paper embossing and constantly custom ordering stuff is getting expensive, so i'm looking to in-house this i'm looking for something that has enough precision to render ~10px fonts on rubber and metal, anything not terrible in the three figgie/low four figgies out there?
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Kickstarter worthy: $85 for a pair of slippers.
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surebet posted:i'm looking for a small laser cutter or cnc mill and i figured this might be somewhat within the thread's scope Try here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3561097 seems to be where all the soldering-iron nerds are hanging out 
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or here http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3558051
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May 11, 2016 21:53
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SynthOrange posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117421627/the-peachy-printer-the-first-100-3d-printer-and-sc/posts/1572573 
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MrMoo posted:Kickstarter worthy: $85 for a pair of slippers. all mahabis products (including slippers and soles) are designed for comfort and relaxation at home; these are slippers and not shoes. they are designed to be worn indoors and for light outdoor use ONLY (such as collecting the bins, nipping to the garden etc.). In particular, the detachable soles are designed for light outdoor use ONLY. Any use beyond this is at your own risk.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:On September 20th 2013 me and my investor David Boe launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Peachy Printer - The World’s First $100 3D Printer. do they not have courts in Canada?
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May 11, 2016 22:33
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Al! posted:do they not have courts in Canada? No, they have Judge Mounties
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May 12, 2016 00:37
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Al! posted:do they not have courts in Canada? It takes time to get 12 moose in a room, let along get them to render a verdict.
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Al! posted:do they not have courts in Canada? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R50yy5Rhm7c I hear that a public apology is pretty much capital punishment in Canada. This man has suffered enough people!
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surebet posted:i'm looking for a small laser cutter or cnc mill and i figured this might be somewhat within the thread's scope You want:  Fire, electrocution, and blindness may result: Chinese laser adventures http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3739294
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Try here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3561097  SynthOrange posted:You want: 
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May 12, 2016 04:25
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But it's around $300-400 and free shipping! And only half of the parts were broken on arrival!
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what the gently caress does the accountant need a cnc mill for
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ayn rand hand job posted:what the gently caress does the accountant need a cnc mill for bespoke hanging file folders, obviously  actually, we probably spend a couple hundred dollars per quarter on all sorts of custom ink stamps so even accounting for employee time, the individual material components are so cheap we'd break even within a couple years on a laser cutter. Plus we'd have a thing that the marketing/development guys would love for rapid prototyping cnc is mostly for rapid prototyping i do accounting but i don't work in an accounting firm
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Fontus: the self-filling water bottle. Raised $330,000 on indiegogo and has a week left in the campaign. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fontus-the-self-filling-water-bottles#/  quote:Fontus Airo will save you trouble, weight and might even save your life!  I dunno if the rest of this post is interesting to anyone except me but I'm sick and high on cough syrup so here goes. I actually had this pitched to me once, at a hackathon I went to. The guy had a team of 8 business people (4 for marketing, 2 for sales, himself, and somebody else who I assume was just useless). He was walking around desperately looking for an engineer who could do all the work and make him rich. He said it differently: "I have a prototype and I need someone to do the electrical work", but we all know what that means when you're an Ideas Guy. When he pitched it to me, my partner asked "what people have you got so far and who do you still need", which is how I know the makeup of his "team". Then I asked "what's your prototype like?" He showed me a dehumidifier, straight from Amazon, disassembled and stuck on top of a Nalgene. It plugged into the wall. I asked how much power he needed from solar, and he told me that the Amazon listing said it only needs around 500 watts.  This is a 500W solar array, and it costs a little under a thousand dollars. Each of those panels is 2 feet by 3 feet. His plan was to put it on a water bottle. So we laughed at the guy and then the host suggested we to leave the hackathon because I think you're supposed to be willing to work on stupid poo poo at hackathons. But me and a few friends (a few electrical engineers, programmers, and physicists) saw the campaign up there. Solid production values, typos notwithstanding, and the team is alleged to contain a real electrical engineer. We thought maybe we would do some quick math to check if a non-idiot could possibly make this work. The physicist said we could try modeling the power required to cool ambient water in the air to its dew point, and came up with 224 KJ per liter of water at STP and 100% relative humidity. The electrical engineer said he could model a simple condenser and came up with 445 KJ per liter under similar ideal conditions. A different physicist tried assuming water vapor is an ideal gas and computing the entropy delta from compressing it 764x (density of liquid water / vapor pressure of water at 100C). He came up with 1.1 MJ per liter under some slightly less ideal conditions. One of the programmers tried calculating the heat of vaporization for water, which I think is the best approach, and got 2.1 MJ per liter. Anyway, the point is that we all came out with numbers in excess of 200 KJ/L, and the more realistic estimates were ten times that. They claim they can get a liter in 2 hours under ideal conditions. That comes out to 60 - 600 watts, using spherical-cow-in-a-vacuum sort of numbers. Honestly I think 600 watts is generous; people with dehumidifiers at home, those things run 500+ watts and produce around a liter a day? 5 liters a week? Certainly nowhere near half a liter per hour.  They also claim that they're using a flexible solar mat:  I actually found a 60W flexible solar mat, so that part isn't totally implausible; it's here and it costs 3 times as much as their entire product and is 7 feet long and 2 feet wide. So it'll take anywhere from 1 to 10 of these 7-foot x 2 foot mats. Basically yes, this product could technically work, as long as you're willing to pitch a tent made of solar panels. fakeedit: oh lol it looks they used to have an electrical engineer. Now they're a designer, a Business University Graduate, and a manufacturing dude. That's going to go great. 
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I thought it was going to be a bottle that could filter anything. It turned out to be much more stupid.
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it's nice how well the bottle complements the triton which does the exact opposite, maybe there's a market for a reversible air from water <-> water from air magic gizmo for idiot morons
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May 12, 2016 09:24
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Now you need to kickstart your own sea salt maker
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it's so loving irresponsible to tell people they don't need to bring water with them if they have that thing, jfc
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it should be illegal for indiegogo to allow flex funding on manufactured products. it is a nice braindead way to spot scams though
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theflyingexecutive posted:indiegogo should be illegal
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is there anyone named indiegogo child because that's a p good name
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Trig Discipline posted:is there anyone named indiegogo child because that's a p good name 
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the best Kickstarter reward: "we're canceling the project because one of our partners ran off with all your money and built a house and I can't afford rent anymore"
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:it's so loving irresponsible to tell people they don't need to bring water with them if they have that thing, jfc even if it could work, it would be least effective in hot, arid climates where you need constant hydration the most
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Is a man not to bottle the moisture in the air? "No" says the man in Washington, "it belongs to the poor"... "Noo" says the man in the Vatican, "it belongs to God"... "No" says the man in Moscow, "it belongs to everyone." I... rejected those answers, instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Fontus.
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it's amazing how many of these pitches start with "first all we need to do is find a highly portable and lightweight source of unlimited high voltage power" like that's the easy part
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lol, I funded the peachy printer for a hundred bucks. I wanted to support a Canadian engineering startup and figured I'd at least get a nice little blue laser and mirror galvanometer out of the deal that I could make into a projector three years later, lomarfio
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Sagebrush posted:lol, I funded the peachy printer for a hundred bucks. I wanted to support a Canadian engineering startup and figured I'd at least get a nice little blue laser and mirror galvanometer out of the deal that I could make into a projector again if what the project creator is saying is true I don't understand the Canadian legal system if he can embezzle money from his partner to build a house, admit it, sign a repayment contract, welsh on it, and the only remunerative recourse is to call his local police department in the hopes that they will even give a little bit of a poo poo
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Paul Schmalzl, Hasenpfeffer, Inc.
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Ah, yes, this solar powered water bottle will work wonderfully during my hike under the shade of the tree tops.
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Al! posted:it's amazing how many of these pitches start with "first all we need to do is find a highly portable and lightweight source of unlimited high voltage power" like that's the easy part well, I dunno about lightweight, but you could get a consistent 500 watts to power your water bottle from a roughly backpack-sized radioisotope generator. maybe I'll kick start that
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Al! posted:welsh
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someone should make a shadow linkedin to track people behind impossible kickstarters or toxic managerial cultures so future companies / coworkers know what they're up against
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Sagebrush posted:well, I dunno about lightweight, but you could get a consistent 500 watts to power your water bottle from a roughly backpack-sized radioisotope generator. maybe I'll kick start that oh hi I didn't see you there. graphite, so safe we give it to school children but did you know it can also be used to help generate free energy? (holds up a number 2 pencil) hi I'm idiottron fucklord and I've got an exciting new product for you
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totally an acceptable spelling and also gently caress the welsh
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Al! posted:totally an acceptable spelling and also gently caress the welsh not enough letters sorry
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