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mhb ◴[] No.42179740[source]
This is what it actually does: https://www.maslowcnc.com/about-maslow4
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throwaway81523 ◴[] No.42179833[source]
Aha, a plunge router attached to a Roomba j/k ;). That page is very helpful. Hard to say what it's good for unless you're a dedicated woodwork buff. Otherwise a jigsaw seems like enough for a lot of this.
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cpwright ◴[] No.42184209[source]
There was a Roomba equivalent company out there, which would have wheels that drive the motor around, but they never shipped. Maslow moves itself by pulling on belts on fixed anchor points.

The Shaper Origin has you move the machine, and it makes corrections using machine vision to track its position. It will give you more accuracy than a Maslow; but at a much greater cost and more attention.

A jig saw does not make as clean cuts as a router, and you need to have the workpiece suspend so the blade can go through the work. With a router, you can just have a spoilboard underneath.

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Suppafly ◴[] No.42186996[source]
>The Shaper Origin has you move the machine, and it makes corrections using machine vision to track its position. It will give you more accuracy than a Maslow; but at a much greater cost and more attention.

I really don't understand the market for the shaper. Even the youtubers that get paid to shill them don't seem to have a compelling reason to be using them.

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1. mbgerring ◴[] No.42189240[source]
Being able to cut complex shapes on site for art builds, where a designer knows Illustrator but nothing about tool paths, has paid for my Shaper Origin several times over already.
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2. Suppafly ◴[] No.42194449[source]
>where a designer knows Illustrator but nothing about tool paths

I guess that's probably the best use case, you've changed my mind.