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Have you seen Shapeoko? They will soon have their third iteration, but even the second one is great...

I'm a middle-school CS teacher; the woodshop teacher and I have been collaborating on using a Shakeoko at our school. It works great!

http://burks.girlsms.org/maker/?p=115

That's a lovely looking piece of kit, have you had the opportunity to play with one?

Yes, I am halfway to assemble it (done the mechanics, now comes the belts and wires).

Let me know how it goes and what you think of it. I'm really interested to hear more about it.

My local makerspace has one, though I've not tried it myself. IIRC it's using a custom bracket (3d printed) to hold our dremel, but is otherwise should be standard.

The one problem I remember seeing was when somebody's laptop was running it and went to sleep and they weren't able to get it to resume the job when it woke up. Maybe there's a way to do it, but just making sure your computer is set to stay awake avoids the issue entirely.

Most 3d printers which also use gcode, have an sdcard slot. Load your gcode file onto the sdcard, plug it into the printer and print from there. You dont need a computer connected at all, so nothing to go to sleep.

The 3d printers, yes. The Shapeoko 2 runs off of an arduino and gets its data over a serial connection.

At least that's my understanding of it. I've never used it myself, only watched it run for other people.

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