Almost a year since the last post in here, maybe I should mention my project, see if that wakes this forum up.

I'm working on a computer controlled machine which I believe has the potential of helping to end poverty. It is a machine which can manufacture most consumer products. It will be very multifunction, capable of CNC milling, 3D printing, 3D scanning, EDMing, electronics pic and place assembly, soldering, and testing, and a bunch of other things.

After initial costs, these machines will cost about $200 each to build. Competitors machines which do only one of the many functions of this machine cost $30,000 or more.

It'll have a welded tubular frame, cheap and flimsy, but should be enough for light milling, and since it is computer controlled, light milling is all you need. Who cares if it takes a little longer, as long as the computer is doing the work. It'll have linear encoders with about 0.0001 inch resolution (paper is 0.005 inches wide).

It'll probably take a year or two though. If anyone wants to help, we can use any help we can get.

Tony