Cathal Garvey’s Microlathe
Microlathe is a Makerbot printable Lathe that uses a Dremel for rotary power. Cathal Garvey made it and it’s his second brush with the power of high speed rotoational power tools after his Dremelfuge!
I spent a day and a half designing the first draft of it in OpenSCAD, another evening printing the parts, and the minutes I could grab over the last few evenings testing it. The result? It’s fairly hazardous, requires careful balancing, and it works just fine on wood dowelling. So on the whole, a big success!
One of the reasons I designed and made Microlathe was because I wanted a free lathe. Another reason was to contribute to a pattern of accelerating returns I’ve become aware of and excited about recently, in the sphere of rapid prototyping.
Via Microlathe and Accelerating Returns in Rapid Prototyping
RICHARD
February 4th, 2010 at 10:09 am #
I watched the video..
I like the concept and idea for the lathe.
the video quality needs some work. (this is just feedback)
Have you decided to make and sell? (just the lathe)