AMT has also made good use of CrowdTilt to raise funds internally for pieces of equipment. Much lower weight that kickstarter or indiegogo; more aimed at a group of friends pitching in money for a project.

Or of course we could just throw money at someone willing to take charge, like we did for the robot arm.

I'd definitely be interested in putting in some money towards a laser cutter.

Patrik

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:

i have visited two hackerspaces here in Toronto, including http://hacklabs.to
and
http://torontotoollibrary.com

and it's clear that a hackerspace needs a laser cutter. Sudoroom doesn't have one yet, so we should start thinking about which one we will get.

I heard we had $12,000.00 too much in the bank, and here at TTL they have a HUGE laser cutter called the Lasersaur. It's a kit, sortof, but it's a very serious machine. It uses a 100 watt laser! and that means it can cut through 3/4" plywood (in multiple passes)

http://www.lasersaur.com/

okay maybe we're not ready for something like this quite yet, but when we're ready we should keep it in mind. We can skip over the step of getting a cheap lame cutter like those other hackerspaces.

speaking of other hackerspaces, hacklabs has one from Universal Laser Systems that they got off Craigslist for $500 because the controller was fried. They built a motor control system (the hard way) and then they had a nice laser cutter! I think it's 25 watts.

-jake
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