{"id":207,"date":"2011-05-24T08:15:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T13:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=207"},"modified":"2011-06-01T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:46:31","slug":"new-list-for-open-source-fabrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"new list for open source fabrication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using open source software at work since the late 80s and have spent the past couple of years experimenting with Arduino, Reprap, Makerbot, and I&#8217;m getting involved with early lasersaur development.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my strong opinion that over the next year open source hardware will really start making an impact in the local and small-scale fabrication space.  While there are plenty of shops using EMC2 in large-scale fabrication, the learning curve is steep and EMC2 is focused on subtractive machining operations.  There are no fundamental patents on things like mills or lathes to deal with, but a lot of the control circuits and interfaces used are proprietary or at least closed source.<\/p>\n<p>With lasersaur using grbl, Makerbot using (and supporting) ReplicatorG, and the increase of quality tools like Inkscape and OpenSCAD I think we&#8217;re finally seeing small-scale manufacturing with a toolchain almost entirely made of open source hardware and software.   (I&#8217;m not going to wade into the argument about whether or not it&#8217;s &#8220;real&#8221; open source if you&#8217;re still buying steppers or power supplies or other COTS items. :-)<\/p>\n<p>In order to help move this process along, I&#8217;ve created a new mailing list, <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.opensourcefab.org\/listinfo.cgi\/opensourcefab-opensourcefab.org\">opensourcefab<\/a>, and am working on a wiki\/web forum as well.<\/p>\n<p>My goal for this list (and for the forum that will soon go online) is to create a space for those of us who want to use these tools for serious fabrication.   Maybe you make\/sell model railroad components or build big skeery robots or work at an in-house shop making spares but we&#8217;re all interested in the same thing &#8212; using open source tools in a production environment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;jet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using open source software at work since the late 80s and have spent the past couple of years experimenting with Arduino, Reprap, Makerbot, and I&#8217;m getting involved with early lasersaur development. It&#8217;s my strong opinion that over the next year open source hardware will really start making an impact in the local and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-hacking","category-all-about-the-makerbot-cupcake","category-metalworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}