News
- May 4th, Bringing back the MacroFab meetup.
Question From slack: Eric Smith
- How do you find new machines for the factory lines?
- Google
- Youtube
- Vendors
- Resellers
- Do you guys get mailed catalogs?
- Auctions yes. New machines no
- Do you go to conferences?
- I have been but never to purchase a machine
if you find something which could be potentially good, how do you evaluate it? Is there something like a trial period with the manufacturer?
- Research is key. Evaluation is difficult to do.
- Do you have an examples of machines you purchased but regret? Or examples of machines that helped a lot?
- Mimaki Printer
- Stencil printer
- Datron CNC
- Direct question
- I’d also be curious if you prefer to keep homogenous lines or do you prefer to optimize some lines to a particular task, i.e. Less precise but more throughput. I can come up with good arguments either way. It sounds like you all keep things pretty dynamic and reconfigure fairly often.
Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!