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So, I thought it would be fun to see some of you guys guessing at what we're up to next. I'm sure a select few have a slight advantage at their guesses, but I wanna hear your guys' crazy guesses! Have fun, be descriptive, let's see what you can think of for us next!

If I had to guess, a 3-Axis CNC machine? Maybe something to do with 'desktop' injection molding systems?
How about a CNC 2-Axis lathe?

Ok, maybe my ideas might not be too wild or crazy, but I am putting out there tools I would love to have in the shop!

Well, there's the rout 'n twist that's in your store, but that's big bucks. Maybe a version of that cheap enough for hobby buyers?

A home filament extruder?

Or skip that and make a printer extruder designed to take cheap plastic pellets directly?

Eric wrote:Or skip that and make a printer extruder designed to take cheap plastic pellets directly?

This would be cool! Take scraps, failed prints and grind them directly into the extruder to reuse.

death ray? , ok perhaps a CNC laser cutter

Ooooh, death ray sounds fun. What was Teslas last great work? And what did he hate it being called? Haha A lathe would be cool, but small use compared to a mill with a rotary axis right?

Errr i mean "peace" ray.
I know! Earthquake machine, ,, can't wait to unlease it on my neighborhood

A home filament extruder?

Or skip that and make a printer extruder designed to take cheap plastic pellets directly?

A home filament extruder would rock so much -- heck, and in perfecting it you could win yourselves $40,000!

I really like the idea of recycling milk jugs (and other plastics) into filament.

On the other hand, printing in metal would be kind of cool:
http://hackaday.com/2012/05/18/printing ... -a-reprap/

Edit: Ooh ooh! Multiple print heads? (Or perhaps a single printhead that can automatically swap filaments? -- you asked for crazy ideas -- It'd be neat to see a machine that could do color mixing -- like with red/yellow/blue (or CMYK, or whatever) that allowed it to do multi-colored prints. )

Edit:

I know! Earthquake machine, can't wait to unlease it on my neighborhood

First thing I ever bought online -- when I was like 12 years old -- was from some scam site selling "Tesla's Earthquake Machine Plans" -- I figured hell, I can wrap wires around a nail and build an electric magnet, how hard can it be to make an earthquake machine?

...I'm pretty sure whatever I got in the mail was fake (I mean the feds confiscated most of Tesla's stuff when he died, including his notes...) but I was completely unable to read or make any sense of the plans I got -- it was all crazy gobbledy goop shit with numbers and and drawings and wierd shit all over the place -- lots of math everywhere, and little bits of text explaining the various things but none of it made any sense to me -- it seemed legit at the time -- but I mean, I was 12, so it probably wasn't... -- I asked my parents for help, "How do I build this?" -- they had no idea what the fuck it was either...

Edit: Ooh ooh! Multiple print heads? (Or perhaps a single printhead that can automatically swap filaments? -- you asked for crazy ideas -- It'd be neat to see a machine that could do color mixing -- like with red/yellow/blue (or CMYK, or whatever) that allowed it to do multi-colored prints. )

Check out the following extruder design, triple colors, looks like a decent start.
http://richrap.blogspot.com/2012/08/3-w ... olour.html

Check out the following extruder design, triple colors, looks like a decent start.
http://richrap.blogspot.com/2012/08/3-w ... olour.html

Whoa, that looks like the same guy I linked to! -- Though in his links, those iPhone cases, holy crap, who did those? They look amazing.

Yeah, thats richrap. Hes pretty ingenious. I talked to him about prototyping some of his parts for him. Sounds like hes busy at the moment

For the Rostock MAX...? Has to be a laser cutter: light (Puns are ok, aren't they?), easily powered off-platform and ready for balsa or foamboard!.

Well, one of your Rostock pics is of a theorectical 3 print head holder so I guess that you are making that a reality.