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Plummeting cost of rapid prototyping
The cost of rapid prototyping has been plummeting lately with open source products like the RepRap and MakerBot, but now it’s hitting a new low…$500 for an extrusion style rapid prototyping machine from Solidoodle. What you save in money, you sacrifice in layer resolution…this Solidoodle, for example, uses 1.75mm extruded material so the parts have … Continue reading
MAME system build has started
I found an empty arcade game cabinet on Craigslist for $20, so that’s kick-started my MAME system build. Starting out with a fan-less Shuttle XS35 system, with a 16GB compact flash card for storage. Installing an OS onto a barebones system can be tough without an optical drive, but I cobbled together a functional (but … Continue reading