Unlike other solutions like the Glowforge you can use your own materials as long as you put the tape on it, it’s a great compromise in my book.Īs for the price, one could argue it’s a bit high but they have a unique product that works in a precise way with a lot of software/hardware working together, touchscreen, computer and camera. Regardless some of you getting hung up specifically on this aspect of the product is … weird. It’s probably not very hard to reverse engineer and make your own tape solution, you could probably just print them on paper and tape them yourself (or use adhesive paper on your printer). Awesome I just bought mine, preorder yours using my referral link below and we. Looking at how precise it is just for those little US states they were engraving you need to a lot of photographic information to ensure the router corrects properly! And they can’t use mouse tracking! That would take forever to scan, also they want to allow you to hand draw details onto the material so laser scan just won’t do it. With the shaper origin now I can just go straight from vector to cutting and am no longer constrained to a 4×4 bed. There are several practical reasons why they use this system that I don’t even have to get into! The main reason is simply to ensure precision that’s for sure. You guys complaining about the tape are acting like little princesses. This thing is completely awesome! I want one so bad, but it seems Canada isn’t lucky once again… I really hope the best for them.Īs was stated though, if it were just half the price … I would have ordered one by now. Going from a rough concept to a practical consumer model in several iterations. (And I saw on Shaper’s web page that Festool was somehow involved in their company.)Īlso on their web page - a wonderful parade of prototypes showing the brilliant process of iterating on an idea. I’m not sure what the lawsuits will look like but Bosch and Porter Cable would be idiots not to be R&D’ing something like this right now. I actually do think this is a fantastically cool thing that clearly defines a new class of tools that is certain to have staying power. I think the sort of “dead reckoning” though that might work for a mouse would fail utterly on an extended cut…
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Of course computer mice have been optical for some time now - requiring only a more-or-less non-reflective surface to work. Maybe it would’t have the fidelity of the optical?
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I get it, but honestly, how about instead a table that has RF tags or something embedded - get your X-Y from ranging those? Dial in the wood thickness and that is the only extra piece of info you need.
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I was just put off by the seeming “hackiness” of having to put strips of tape down in odd places. How hard can it be to generate a facsimile of that tape? My biggest concern though is the proprietary “Shaper Tape”.