[Swansea Hackspace] Maximizing the laser cutter

[Ceri Clatworthy]

Wye Vale have/had some VERY expensive laser cut x mass decorations. ..
We could make some pesonalised ones?????

Ceri
On 10 Apr 2015 20:26, "Alan Cox" <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:18:39 +0100
> Justin Mitchell <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 14:08 +0100, Neil Jones wrote:
> > > Now that we have the laser cutter and given that we really do need new
> > > members I am wondering if we can make use of the new piece of kit for
> > > recruitment.
> > >
> > > Is it worth publicising it in the same way that the intial launch of
> > > this group was done by promoting it to other internet lists etc. Like
> > > the linux community and the university.
> > > We'd have to get it working first and have something for people to come
> > > and do with it, but we do know from other hackspaces that a laser
> cutter
> > > is a very good recruitment tool.
> >
> > in short, yes. we should capitalise on this as much as possible, by
> > running various training and induction courses and shouting about them
> > as loudly as possible.
> >
> > I also think we should try and make more of offering fabrication as a
> > service, the offered turn around would have to be in the days rather
> > than hours as it needs one of us to volunteer the time to do it, but it
> > would help raise awareness of the tools and facilities we have, and
> > potentially generate some addition income to upgrade and improve
> > services for everyone.
> >
> > Someone needs to research what the going rates are for such services,
> > and where is good to list them. I know there are a few websites around
> > for listing 3D printing services, but i don't know about cnc and laser
> > cutting.
>
> Upload a few things to razorlab.co.uk I guess. That also illustrates the
> other project pieces to write that make it work beyond a cutter and
> a fire extinguisher:
>
> - Automated pricing and submission
> - Automated validation
> - Stock materials
>
> and I imagine the large volume people also have cutters that can run
> unsupervised (which is quite a different market).
>
>
>
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