News/2010-09-14

Laser Cutter

On Saturday night, lots of etching occurred, including:

• An enclosure for a robot by George.

• An XKCD plaque in copper by Meurig

• Aden's HTC G1 being etched with pedobear

• A Cthulu keyring

Meurig's working on etching PCBs, although UV might still be as easy.

Julian cut a rotationally symmetrical business card

Vending machine

We bought a vending machine for £91.50 (thanks to the £8.50 we found in it).

This will be for selling high demand items that are too expensive to be consumables, such as:

• Arduinos
• BusPirates
• Lockpicks
• DC-DC converters

We're hoping to wire it up to Paypal and the RFID readers.

Coffee Machine

Mark had a good go at fixing the above.

Auction

We may be receiving a collection of servers from Last.fm, to check and sell on. The challenge is making sure they don't take up too much space.