Wishlist

The Wishlist is an area to add specific tool and material requests. Tools donated or acquired by HeatSync Labs can be found on the Library page.

General Lab Needs

• Paper Towels
• Mounting brackets and visible signage for fire extinguishers
• Badly needed: 1 Industrial shelving unit (member storage) (http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xg6/R-100095394/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053)
• Floor wet-mop stuff
• New Plunger
• New Toilet brush
• Short garden hose (like 6 foot or something?) for filling mop buckets, etc
• 2 ladders to reach 12ft ceilings (if the ladders here are yours, please indicate if you are donating them or not)
• 1 desk for conference room, more desks, workbenches, or tables for front area
• 1 couch up front
• More matched nice computer chairs for up front

Assets

Lets pick out a list of 'essential' tools in each category. The Fab Lab might be a good starting point for this. For those that are prohibitively expensive, lets choose the ACTUAL tool we ACTUALLY want to buy and post a kickstarter campaign for it. For cheaper tools Auctions, Craigslist and Cheap Chinese Tools are probably the way to go to start.

• Embedded Circuit Design/Electronics Lab Tools
• CNC Router We might be able to do some fun stuff with laser in meantime (maybe 3/4" mdf?)
• CNC Milling Machine -we can CNC our Mini Mill!
• CNC Lathe -we're borrowing one of Corey's and we can CNC our 7x10!
• Lathe - We have 3 at this point, but someone suggests Harrison Alpha Model
• Plasma Cutter --> http://www.plasmacam.com/products-index.php
• Waterjet Cutter - Omax?
• Drill Press - we have 2, but presumably a better one
• Circular Saw - We're eyeing a Hitachi C8FSHE 8-1/2
• Table Saw - we get a ryobi from home depot for free!
• Air Compressor - we have a cheap Ace Hardware version, but its a little rough
• Band Saw - We have the Harbor Freight model, but its a little rough..
• Air filtration - for wood projects and routers, etc. Can we
• 3D Scanner - Nextgen?
• Pick and Place - APS? or http://code.google.com/p/openpnp/

Software

When purchasing we, as a rule, do not want non commercial versions of software as we are prototyping and creating

• Matlab - 1 license $2k at mathworks
• Corel draw $399 at corel - $130 if you upgrade (CorelDRAW, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Corel DESIGNER, Micrografx Designer, Micrografx Graphics Suite, Micrografx/Corel Picture Publisher, or Corel Painter. Trial, academic, OEM, and NFR versions are not eligible for an upgrade.)
• Corel Draw x3 (maybe preferred for our laser 'driver') $25 plus 5 shipping here
• Illustrator $600 on adobe or cs5 premium design on techsoup (mac) $55 esd
  • OR CS5 Design (inc photoshop extended, flash catalyst and professional) for 170(mac) on techsoup
• Eagle standard (4x6) $750, pro $1500
  • Or Alibre? Altium would be nice (5k)..
• VCarve - CAD/CAM system for making signs and art
• Autocad 2012 w subscription $4425, w/o $3995 download only on autodesk - 2011 mac $? on techsoup
• Autocad inventor only in packages now.. (windows) $? on techsoup
• SolidWorks - $4k standard should be sufficient - education version requires nothing designed be made commercially so...--contacted rep, 4k is lowest price
• MasterCam -10k-15? - in contact for lowest price for us
  • OR Cam bam? $150 - $300
• Mach CNC control software - $175 + $50 - Generously offered to us free by developer, ArtSoft
• flickr pro accounts $6 on techsoup

Research facts

• corel we dont want educator (non commercial only)
• adobe we can't as we're not an accredited school
• adobe esd means download only
• eagle nonprofit is non commercial