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<div>Sound's like a good idea Ceri. </div>
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<div>Anyone in today? I have no fob at the moment so I have no access </div>
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<div>From: Ceri Clatworthy <ceri.clatworthy@gmail.com></div>
<div>Date:10/04/2015 20:55 (GMT+00:00) </div>
<div>To: Hackers <hackspace@swansea.hackspace.org.uk></div>
<div>Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Maximizing the laser cutter </div>
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<p dir="ltr">Wye Vale have/had some VERY expensive laser cut x mass decorations. ..<br>
We could make some pesonalised ones?????</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ceri</p>
<div class="x_gmail_quote">On 10 Apr 2015 20:26, "Alan Cox" <<a href="mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk">alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:18:39 +0100<br>
Justin Mitchell <<a href="mailto:justin@swansea.hackspace.org.uk">justin@swansea.hackspace.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 14:08 +0100, Neil Jones wrote:<br>
> > Now that we have the laser cutter and given that we really do need new<br>
> > members I am wondering if we can make use of the new piece of kit for<br>
> > recruitment.<br>
> ><br>
> > Is it worth publicising it in the same way that the intial launch of<br>
> > this group was done by promoting it to other internet lists etc. Like<br>
> > the linux community and the university.<br>
> > We'd have to get it working first and have something for people to come<br>
> > and do with it, but we do know from other hackspaces that a laser cutter<br>
> > is a very good recruitment tool.<br>
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> in short, yes. we should capitalise on this as much as possible, by<br>
> running various training and induction courses and shouting about them<br>
> as loudly as possible.<br>
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> I also think we should try and make more of offering fabrication as a<br>
> service, the offered turn around would have to be in the days rather<br>
> than hours as it needs one of us to volunteer the time to do it, but it<br>
> would help raise awareness of the tools and facilities we have, and<br>
> potentially generate some addition income to upgrade and improve<br>
> services for everyone.<br>
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> Someone needs to research what the going rates are for such services,<br>
> and where is good to list them. I know there are a few websites around<br>
> for listing 3D printing services, but i don't know about cnc and laser<br>
> cutting.<br>
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Upload a few things to <a href="http://razorlab.co.uk" target="_blank">razorlab.co.uk</a> I guess. That also illustrates the<br>
other project pieces to write that make it work beyond a cutter and<br>
a fire extinguisher:<br>
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- Automated pricing and submission<br>
- Automated validation<br>
- Stock materials<br>
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and I imagine the large volume people also have cutters that can run<br>
unsupervised (which is quite a different market).<br>
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