Comments on: CNC hot wire cutter from scanners

By: Tridentinvestments

Tridentinvestments — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:52:25 +0000

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By: Sepherion

Sepherion — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:05:01 +0000

Similar to the pistol case, the first thing I thought of was to cut holes in foam to store my ever increasing Warhammer armies. Cutting foam by hand is a bloody nightmare.

Awesome hack. *nods nods*

By: silvershovler

silvershovler — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:24:09 +0000

ok here is the plan with this one. go to the local gun shop. offer to do a pistol case for free to show and display on counter, set out some bussiness cards and blamo you have a money making venture.

By: tehgringe

tehgringe — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:53:48 +0000

Ah Kirov, like the child no one wanted.

It is also brilliant that his post is immediately followed up by a “This is an awesome hack… I’ve been looking for something just like this…” – kirov = fail.

Nice trolling though.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:26:13 +0000

That’s a neat piece of re-purposing… and my very favourite sort of hack.

*nods head approvingly*

By: David L

David L — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:34:23 +0000

I don’t think you realize how much a cnc foam cutter cost, of course this one is smaller, so its only a couple of hundred, but if you’ve ever played warhammer or other table top you know how annoying cutting foam can be. This would be perfect to cut in layers and then come through with a hand cutter and make it into an actual hill or barrier

By: kabukicho2001

kabukicho2001 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:28:39 +0000

The next one upgrade with only one scanner?

By: anon

anon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:50:56 +0000

video needs more references to yoghurt

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:10:02 +0000

The speed on that rig is as impressive as much as anything. I could see myself using this to make ink stamps for my mum as she’s been on a handicrafts tip for a few months now.
Wonder how much further it could be taken to get a hobby scale band saw under control, maybe as a material controller with the saw stationary. Then a whole pile of new materials come in to play.

By: Kenny G

Kenny G — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:43:29 +0000

He gets points just for using the soundtrack from Future Crew’s Second Reality demo.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:03:40 +0000

You know that this is a really great hack for people interested in the lost foam casting method. CNC rapid protoyping for any type of aluminum part. just glue on your risers, nest the parts together and pour in your molten aluminum. Blam! rough cast intricate parts. better than most people can do by hand.. and quicker too.

By: psymansays

psymansays — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:32:34 +0000

This is a really nice build. I have been plotting against a few old scanners, myself, but I haven’t gotten far on that project. This guy’s work could really help me, to build my own project (@ Kirov). So, even though this only slices foam, it’s well built, well-documented, uses parts others have available, and it works.

By: Frank McSteez

Frank McSteez — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:55:58 +0000

Kirov, you fucking troll. Will someone ban him yet? He does this on every post and gets a mess started.

Anyway, this is a great hack and I can think of several uses for something along these lines. Super cool thing to have, and I never even would have thought of it.

By: atrain

atrain — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:53:03 +0000

@ac: He could have cut a hole in the middle of foam, fed the wire through it, and edited the parameters of the program so it knew it was starting in the middle…

You can also do something like this with a scroll saw and a spiral blade.

By: jωt

jωt — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:43:19 +0000

excellent hack