MAKE contributor Steve Lodefink has a new toy, the MicRo CNC robot kit, from Lumenlab:
The micRo is a 3-axis CNC robot being offered by Lumenlab, the same folks who made DIY video projection accessible to the world. Grayson Sigler, the Brainchild behind Lumenlab (brainchild is also his handle on the inter-tubes) describes micRo as a desktop manufacturing workstation. I have a hunch that Sigler has greater ambitions than simply enabling people to make things. I suspect that he is actually preparing to seed the planet with an army of self-replicating machines that will one day rise up and fulfill their destiny – but I’ll save that for another post.
As the name implies, micRo is has a small footprint, but make no mistake it is not a toy or just a platform for learning about machine control (although it will do that) , but a solid base to which you can attach a tool to do whatever it is that you want to do. This is not your typical “MDF and all-thread” type DIY CNC, but a tough, high-tolerance machine.
Given how talented Steve is, we can’t wait to see what sorts of things he makes with his MicRo. BTW: This is Steve making good on his Maker New Year’s Resolution. Well, at least he’s done the buyin’ part. Now he needs to build it and make something.
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