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?
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