Open-source CNCing

Great write up. Now I want one! I put together a Prusa 3D printer kit recently and started getting to grips with extruding really long sub 0.4 mm plastic cylinders.

Slicing a model into something that can be printed or routered is a really complicated problem which seems to be solved only informally. I doubt that anyone can work from "I want this shape with these constraints on shear strength" and the print will be adjusted accordingly.

I have a 1/100 scale Centurion tank sat on my wfh desk (dining room table) and my large plastic garden storage thingie has new hinges on one door instead of being binned when a door fell off and contributing to micro plastic pollution.

I am seriously surprised at how few comments OP has received. It looks like we are turning into old ... people.

I'm nearly 50.