After putting out to list of full members there was a great response on getting a fabfun set-up to buy some useful machinery for space.
On the initial list of things to buy are:
MakerBot http://store.makerbot.com/featured-products/cupcake-cnc-basic.html
Home Made CNC http://www.cncroutersource.com/homemade-cnc-router.html
RepRap http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
Anything else people come up with Comments below on what you think.
Reprap
Last weekend on the RepRap:
http://video.fosdem.org/2010/maintracks/reprap.xvid.avi
We are about to purchase a Mendel, but would be interesting in offering capacity on the finished project (fingers cross) in exchange for a dusty corner to store the machine in?
Hi Conr, not sure reading this right do you want to put hte Mendel in tog? or are you asking if our Makerbot is stilling in corner gathering dust (it is)? We are now moved on to buy a http://labs.nortd.com/lasersaur/