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aelbric writes "PC Magazine is running an on some entrepreneurial businesses that are taking an interesting approach to prototyping and one-off manufacturing. Apparently, you can send in schematics for circuit boards to Pad2Pad, where they will quote, build and ship you a part based on your exact specifications. There is also reference to eMachineShop, for those of you more mechanically inclined, for building some home projects.
Design the part on your PC, send it to the shop electronically, recieve custom built component(s). "
Kewl! Now I can get the components made for that Killotron 5000 I've been working on!
Seriously, I think fab services like this could be a great boon, but how do you keep some group with nefarious intent from getting WMD components fabbed this way. If the pieces were submitted by multiple customers, it would be difficult to see that someone was trying to build something destructive.
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I'd imagine they'll tell you if they can't manufacture it. Now, whether or not it does what you want is a good question... ;)
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I'm more interested in the eMachines shop. Pricing is expensive for small runs, but not unreasonable at all for larger runs. Of course, the software is windows-only....
Windmills do not work that way!
Does this mean i can theoretically have a mod chip built? curious what other implications could be considered such as building copycats of other stuff. what is the legallity of this?
PC Magazine is running an on some entrepreneurial businesses that are taking an interesting approach...
And someone calls these people _Editors_ ???
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It's very interesting to see a website like eMachineShop (I've known about it for a little while already). A lot of actual machine shops that use CNC machinery are run by 40+ y/o gentlemen who are sort of "stuck in the past" (no offence to anyone) with regards to their equipment.
So when you have websites such as eMachineShop you're providing competition to these guys who have no web presence and no facility to even take such orders.
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On another note, I'm working on something similar but in a slightly different manner. Machine shops themselves would send in a CAD file, and then we would quote them on a cycle time based on our machinery that they could purchase (since I work for a CNC Machine Distributor, who is also ironically suffering from a DOS attack).
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looks like you are off-topic. Would you like an autoban?
I'm a subscriber. I agree with what you are saying.
I've paid for page views, not 503 errors.
I don't understand what's up with this crap. Maybe someone at VA will give a crap if we gripe enough.
Yes, if fed up enough, I can go else where. But dang it, they've already got my money. How do I get it back?
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There are a lot of companies who will do small runs of PC boards for you, but you have to give them finished layouts (gerber files). This gut provides the tools to do the layout as well as doing the boards, so it saves you a huge investment in software and learning a layout system.
Machine shops are the same way. If you design something in AutoCad and give them a finished print, they will quote on it and make you a part. His adavntage again is providing the tools and doing the quote instantly.
Most websites for machine shops are a single static page with a name and phone number, or scanned images of a paper catalog. This guy is 10 years more advanced in internet technology (and that's 70 dog years).
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If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
But hey. It takes 3 downmods within 24 hours to autban you for 72 hours IIRC.
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Agreed. I was originally just looking at the Pad2Pad stuff. The eMachineShop has all kinds of possibilities. For example, my wife is very good at drawing horses. To date, she's just been burning the images into "craft" wood pieces. With eMachineShop, she could draw up a laser etched, aluminum work-of-art and have it inexpensively cut on a (very expensive) laser cutter!
And think of all the money I could make by selling tourists some sort of Injection Molded trinket! I'd be rich! BWHAHAHA! Erm... ok, I'm getting a little carried away here. Seriously, though. How many zoos and museums make a killing off of those 2 dollar injection molding machines? People love the little animals or dinosaurs they get out of them.
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For really, really cheap small boards check out Olimex. Shipping from Bulgaria takes awhile, but they do panelization and depanelization for free. I did a one-off design that cost me $40 total, including shipping, and gave me 20 boards (about 1.5" by .5"). I've ordered small production runs (~160 pieces) for about half that per-panel rate.
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