by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:30PM (#49794275)
On what exactly this $2500 laser cutter does that the $1000 ones available on ebay for years don't. How he has managed to simplify the hardware beyond timing belts, stepper motors and commodity laser tubes / PSU that they consist of, and how he has simplified the software of something that can already be driven as a HPGL plotter directly from illustrator (or some other software, that may actually be suited to CAD / CAM work).
Seems to me every time someone bolts a dremel onto a Cartesian robot it now results in a kick-starter, and ends up described on slashdot as some sort of innovative new 3D printer.
I wish he would elaborate. (Score:1)
On what exactly this $2500 laser cutter does that the $1000 ones available on ebay for years don't. How he has managed to simplify the hardware beyond timing belts, stepper motors and commodity laser tubes / PSU that they consist of, and how he has simplified the software of something that can already be driven as a HPGL plotter directly from illustrator (or some other software, that may actually be suited to CAD / CAM work).
Seems to me every time someone bolts a dremel onto a Cartesian robot it now results in a kick-starter, and ends up described on slashdot as some sort of innovative new 3D printer.