Quote Originally Posted by Fivetide View Post
unfortunately the information is spread out amongst many threads.

I'm a member of DIY audio and I have participated in many group buys which have been excellent and a few that were not so good. But the ones that were good saved time and money and meant that the members really benefited from the group effort. I myself had 100 PCBs manufactured, for a group buy and although I was taking the risk of being stuck with all these boards I actually didn't have enough made in the end.

What are your thoughts on the possibility of a group build?
There are a million and one open source cnc routers out there, some very good. But if you go to their forums and ask a stupid question the stock response is "that is not in the plans feck off".

This site helps people to renovate old lathes, design oversized 3 axis wood machines, 4-axis, small alu machines etc etc There isn't a one size fits all but all machines have to operate inside of the laws of physics so that 3m gantry made of wishful thinking and puppy dogtails isn't going to shave atoms off titanium no matter what you do.

I think if people did a 'post build debrief' on the logs listing what they spent and where, what they screwed up etc it would help new people a lot.

It would be interesting to see if we could do some group projects for people that have finished their machines, make the site more interesting for people that finished. A group hexapod build would be awesome and servos are a bit cheaper if you buy them in lots of 100. :)