Talk about creativity–I’m excited just thinking about the opportunities you’ve been making to create efficiencies. So cool.
Definitely plan to make some part, but mostly for woodworking jigs or replacement parts around the house, not so much production like yours, very cool use!
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I’ve thought about Glowforges as a distributed network - much like how you could sign up your game console to assist in solving complex computational problems via distributed computing when it wasn’t in use. (folding@home) All Glowforgers participating in distributed manufacturing - making use of idle machine time. As you said: [quote=“chrisgray1313, post:15, topic:2562”]
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who knows how the economics of it would work.
But I think it would be neat for Glowforgers to participate in non-profit efforts, as in downloading designs in the catalog created to be made and sent to charities/NGOs etc.
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I actually just was interviewed by “The Hospitalist” (the journal of the Society of Hospital Medicine) by the incomparable Casey Quinlan, in a video which just appeared along with one of my colleagues on Making in the hospital.
Although along with the devices that solve real problems, somehow I want to incorporate some of the kind of human touchable stuff that you do @morganstanfield, sort of steampunkish kind of stuff. Most of what I make, while neat is very cold and practical (yes a retractor that can open the chest and gently hold a deflated lung up for the surgeon is a neat design, but a cold-hard object). Leather, wood and brass are things I’d like to play with as well (obviously not for the OR). I’m hoping the GF will help with the first 2 and my CNC with the latter (I haven’t gotten to metal by myself yet)
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That’s what we do as part of e-Nable with our 3D printers and spare time making prosthetic hands.
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Is the Hospitalist video available for public viewing or just for subscribers? I’d love to see it. The idea of Making in hospitals is beyond exciting to me.
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It is always funny what they pick from an hour long interview. I did this whole thing on why I thought making and hospitalists were a great combo, and how we could form the glue of a hospital wide maker movement, career ideas, etc, and they only put in the geeky stuff that was sort of at the end. Apparently her editor found that more interesting… My colleague Julius (the wisest man you will ever meet) forms the other half of the video.
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I get paid to build prototypes and design research experiments. but, in my off time I make discontinued/hard to find parts and pieces for local businesses!
I bought one for work, and I just took out a loan and bought one for home!
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Quick, get in touch with Funai Electric. They just announced the death of the VHS(they are the last to make them to the end of the month).
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I make props for cosplayers and other nerdy things so it’s an easy justification to add the Glowforge to my arsenal. I’m always looking for an easy way to replicate bits and bobs on the fly.
I’ll definitely be using it for prototyping as well.
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I run a small wargaming/toy soldier business so will be using the GF for protoyping parts which will go into moulds for production in metal.
I recently got a 3d printer (Cubicon Style - which is amazing!) and am already happily designing and printing parts that would be too fiddly to make (and remake) in plasticard.
Mike
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I’m forking this topic request info about materials for durable parts.
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