Founder Jeffrey Matthias creates:
We needed a reliable full-size CNC machine setup--to ensure that FurnLab could effectively design, produce then sell super awesome furniture. But the price of a CNC machine having a tool changer and vacuum hold-lower system rang in at a lot more than $48,000!I was disheartened to locate that does not only could we not justify the price of even an entry-level system, but neither could we discover any DIY plans that will give to us the professional, full-size, low-cost machine we so frantically needed.
So that they developed a wide open source design that anybody "having a toolbox along with a dream" can assemble for between $ 2500 and $ 7500.
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The implications of the are significant. 2 yrs ago, I authored Ponoko + ShopBot = 100K Garages: This Changes My Way Through Downloadable Design. But there's not one hundred,000 garages, and three dimensional cutting and printing services continue to be less fashionable as copy machines. People still visit IKEA for flatpack rather than the corner copy look for a printout. But when a 4' x 8' machine costs only $ 7500, possibly they'll start appearing everywhere.
Rather than shipping stuff around the globe and stacking it in suburban large box stores, production will again be seriously local. That's something worth supporting.
More at Furnlab, or invest at their Kickstarter here.
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