Should I just get a CNC machine and just make stuff? I don't see many goys doing that around my neighborhood. Thoughts?
>>62756116Make stuff out of what? A CNC just cuts stuff. You'd still have to buy raw materials. What will you be making? Can you sell your finished stuff for more than the price of the raw materials? Who will you sell to? How will you sell? Online? Are you going to ship stuff to people? What will the shipping costs be? Plastic & metal parts tend to be heavy and are expensive to ship. You need an answer to all these questions.
>>62756116"CNC machine" is kind of a broad concept nowadays. Do you mean:* a 3D printer?* a wire EDM like RackRobotics' hobbyist tier machine?* a CNC router/mill?* a CNC lathe?* a CNC foamcutter (commonly used in making aircraft wing cores, and maybe for mold cores for investment casting other things)?There are undoubtedly more that I haven't encountered. Note that RackRobo's can also be used as a plunge EDM although you'll have to put together a separate tank for it. You would just need to unplug the power supply from the wire EDM stuff and plug a plunge EDM setup into it.As far as "should [you]" it kinda depends on where you live and what the market for stuff is there. I visited Argentina last year and there were people selling 3D-printed lampshades and toys and other items at the local street markets (the one around the Armenian Park and also the one by Plaza Serrano). I guess there was enough of a market to support two or three people doing that, although I don't know how much money they were making off it. It might have been just a hobby to them to pay off their printers, or maybe they were doing it as a real business, I dunno.It also depends on whether you're just going to print toys and try to flog them at fairs like those guys did, or design something serious and use the equipment to prototype it and maybe go into production (see Tim Hoffman's "Trigger Kicker", which I've posted before has made him what I estimate as being nearly ten million dollars by now), or just operate the things as a "get random people to tell me what they want to make for them" on-demand service like SendCutSend.I would be remiss if I didn't warn you that if you are making things on demand for others, there may be copyright issues if they have you print something a third party designed, and there may be federal and state legal issues if it turns out they asked you to make gun parts.BTW, at a minimum, set up an LLC to protect your finances.
>>62756116BTW, I'd separate hobbyist-tier printers like Bambu Labs from some of the aerospace-tier printers that do metal. There's a bit of a gap between spending $1000 on a machine that sits on a shelf in your bedroom closet vs. a $150,000 machine that requires multiphase power and a concrete basepad and uses fine metal powders that can explode if you mishandle them.
>>62756116sounds gay
>>62756116Someone made this Pepe Buddha but I think they are charging too much at $20
>>62756572Link to STL? Finally something I can print with the shitty green PLA my X1C came with.
