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Are you just doing FDM printing or can you also do milling?

I'm very very interested in multiple possible $300-$1000 budget things for both. Edit: Looking at the other comments (I haven't priced anything out using the site yet, scared to do so b/c i don't like drip campaigns), some of my projects might be below this budget using you! Wow!

Is the goal that I use this service to make beautiful enclosures for my projects, or to do all the hardware needs for my project from design to complete?

I've mostly used Oshpark/Shapeways. I was looking into getting a desktop milling machine like an Othermill or Shapeoko, but from my testing they're still way too loud to have in my home office.

Do you cater to one-off things from people like me, or is the hope to be doing mostly B2B?

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We're just doing FDM today, but in the future we plan on expanding to other 3D printing technologies (i.e. SLA, SLS, etc), and eventually even non 3D printing tech like milling or laser cutting.

If you don't want to submit a form on our website, feel free to either email me at jonathan@voodoomfg.com.

Exactly, today's cine we'r eonly manufacturing plastic parts, most hardware companies use us to make enclosures, brackets, and other internal and external components. And then prototypes of course as well.

We definitely do one off projects. If you want, you can just upload files to our website Direct Print service and checkout. Those orders leave our factory next business day: https://voodoomfg.com/direct-print

Oh this is fantastic. I have a few ESP8266s sitting around bare / in tiny ugly plastic containers, I'd love to finally get them nice enclosures. I'll definitely check out the direct print / your site!

Would you mind sharing your schematics for these? Would like to get some nice enclosures for mine too

The only schematics I have right now are for an external project from years ago with specific slots for sensors/cables. I haven't made anything for my own projects yet since I considered the enclosure part too expensive and not worth the time, I'm going to rethink that now though.

If you're looking for milling in the sub-1k range, you should check out Fictiv, Protolabs and/or Plethora.

(I hope this doesn't count as thread hijacking! Just trying to help.)

These are great recommendations, since I've never heard of the companies before :) I have a friend who recently joined Tempo Automation, who seem to be able to do this too.

Sadly it seems that while in the last year or two many new companies have entered this field yet, I personally haven't had much time to shop around and try anything but Oshpark. Exciting times though!

Oh, you mean PCB milling! Well never mind then; those three are all for metal and plastic milling. I worked at Plethora for a bit, I forget that "milling" means different things to different people.

You can also get a quote through direct print for low-volume runs without ever entering your email.

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