>
> > The whole thing suggests PC to me. A second hand PC, cheap
> > web cam on a stand with a good light, Inkscape and some of the
> > available plugins and you're about there
>
> I'm hopeless with PCs. But I do like to think I'm good at making
> things from scratch and love my shed time
>
> Joe
> --
>
>
I know the feeling. :-)

I've recently been playing with some CNC stuff. there's an interesting
video on youtube of
a dirt cheap machine cutting thin foam (6mm ish) with an oscillating
needle. Obviously
not a laser, but within some limitations, similar capabilities. I was
considering making
one, and I tripped on the EGGBOT... Really nice part about eggbot is it's
open source
HW and SW and they have a plugin for Inkscape (also free) that makes it
literally draw
line on screen, click plot and the steppers are moving.

Adding a couple new ideas to my "tool kit" has seriously expanded my "if I
had time" list.

-Denny
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