Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea

[vorlon13]

not either homeowner, that's for sure.

[shudder]

and I'm not snarky about deafness (quite the contrary since so much about sensuality is enhanced when one sense is removed from the playbook), nope, both homeowners were happily married to wifeys I found . . .





repellant. And contagiously so.

[Succubus]

Probably not unprecedented, but when I wired a house many years ago, I put in a couple plugins around the place that came on when the doorbell or phone rang.  The occupant was quite hard of hearing and loved the feature.  People don't press doorbell buttons the same way phones ring, so he could always tell what was up when the lamps came on...

To expand on that; why don't telephones have a flashing light so deaf people know when the phone's ringing?

[vorlon13]

I found a relay (Radio Shack maybe?) that would trigger when connected to a phone line and a ring came in.

[vorlon13]

LOL !!

Batman beat us all !!

[Thumpalumpacus]

Yes, but everyone else think they suck.

lol, I thought at first you were replying to my post immediately above yours. Butthurt engines at full throttle!

[ignoramus]

I just saw some brilliant thinking outside the box which could revolutionise the CNC industry.
As I mentioned I'm looking into buying/building a CNC machine to cut stuff programmatically.
Obviously if you want to cut a 4 ft x 4 ft piece of wood and make complex accurate cuts and contours, you need a machine large enough to accommodate that size. That's where the costs blow out.
Something that big usually needs stronger thicker supports, motors and accompanying electronics.

A American startup called Spacer have finally, after 5 years of development, for sale, a handheld machine, it looks like a hand held plunge router. Basically you are not limited by space as you manually move the device anywhere you want.
It is also a fully computerised CNC to cut to an accuracy of 1/1000 of s inch.
It becomes a machine that can do what only the very expensive machines could accomplish, for a fraction of the cost.
Ad it's portable. You take this to the job instead of taking the job to the factory to get machined.
It blew my mind..... For those techno nerds, check youtube for SPACER ORIGIN.

[vorlon13]

I just saw some brilliant thinking outside the box which could revolutionise the CNC industry.
As I mentioned I'm looking into buying/building a CNC machine to cut stuff programmatically.
Obviously if you want to cut a 4 ft x 4 ft piece of wood and make complex accurate cuts and contours, you need a machine large enough to accommodate that size. That's where the costs blow out.
Something that big usually needs stronger thicker supports, motors and accompanying electronics.

A American startup called Spacer have finally, after 5 years of development, for sale, a handheld machine, it looks like a hand held plunge router. Basically you are not limited by space as you manually move the device anywhere you want.
It is also a fully computerised CNC to cut to an accuracy of 1/1000 of s inch.
It becomes a machine that can do what only the very expensive machines could accomplish, for a fraction of the cost.
Ad it's portable. You take this to the job instead of taking the job to the factory to get machined.
It blew my mind..... For those techno nerds, check youtube for SPACER ORIGIN.

Well, your idea doesn't need a device 4 X 4 feet.

2 X 4 feet is sufficient, just do 1/2 and then turn lumber around and do other 1/2.

[ignoramus]

Using traditional gantry style cnc machines, you don't have the physical room to machine something bigger than what can fit inside the gantry.
If the work piece could fit there in the first place, the gantry cnc could do it in one go anyway.

[The Valkyrie]

Be careful about having too many good ideas.

Your foot might fall off.

[Puke Skywalker]

I'm writing a novel.

Sometimes I think it's a brilliant idea. Riveting story, good characters, inspired, important for the world.

Other times I think it's a pile of shit and a ridiculous waste of time.

Then I change my mind a few more times.

Someday, maybe I'll publish it.