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All right, so this here, this is a first for us

This is a CNC machine inside of here from InfoMaker. The idea here is to make something that anybody can use

so that you can go from an idea to a physical metal object as quickly as possible

and that this thing can just like live next to your computer. You don't need any kind of elaborate software

in order to interact with it. You've got an idea for an item and boom

you make it happen in metal via this CNC machine. So let's go ahead and crack it open

This is going to be a first for us. And hopefully that showcases that it's easy to use

I mean, that's what we're hoping for here. All right

So here is our machine. I mean, this is the front side here

You can see everything is enclosed, which is another important piece. infamaker k1 is now set up and i gotta be honest with you guys i do not have a long history with

cnc machines however what i recognize is that this is an attempt to take the idea of a cnc

machine and make it a thing that's far more approachable to people that aren't familiar

necessarily with CAD software and to kind of I mean this is the way I'm looking at it take a CNC

and make it as much like a 3d printer as possible that's kind of what this feels like interacting

with this thing and using the interface like the hardware is one thing shrink it down make it

smaller make it all in one and like this this is a five axis machine so it does have multiple tools for different materials it kind of like a set it and forget it like click play and it will actually do the work The magic of CNC is materials This is where it goes way beyond 3D printing If you doing some sort of prototyping we working in wood we

working in brass, we're working in aluminum, we're working in acrylic, and we're getting

prototypes that feel a lot more like finished products and obviously can be used in a number

of applications where something like 3D printing just would not be applicable or, you know, making

finished products out of wood that like looks like an actual thing you would want to put on display

it's definitely wood basically the way that this works is inside of this software you can take

even a 2d image allow it to build a model that you're going to be able to create inside the

machine they've also got a display on the device which is going to give you some readout of what

the device is currently doing you can see why it's a five axis i mean x axis y z b and c that

will enable the machining of objects like this in order to give you that level of detail on this

particular pineapple. And because this machine is capable of working with metals, you of course also

have to have distilled water in order to work as a lubricant. And that will be filled inside of this

container here and connected via tube. And the other thing this thing's capable of is it can

switch tools automatically. You just sort of load them up initially manually and then during the job

it can actually change tools. So inside the machine right now, we've got this piece of acrylic

It solves a problem with this guy right here that everybody in the tech community is extremely

familiar with, which is the fact that this magic mouse charges in the most absurd way. Everybody

knows that. Well, this aims to solve that. And this machine job is actually just completed

which means I can reach in and take it out. So this little guy which obviously we could go in there polish it up a little bit you could go in here with sandpaper and really make a finished product imagine that that uh you just got an

entire assembly line of these little docks attempting to fix the charging problem with

the magic mouse so the magic mouse is just going to sit in like this still at like a mousing angle

in order to fit your charge cable in there that can slot in over here like this now we have a

situation where we can actually still use the device while charging but just like that i mean

we actually have something here that kind of creates a more ergonomic grip as well but prototyping

something like this is really the point of a cnc machine so the way infamaker sees it now is that

the the process of cnc-ing something whether it's a prototype or a piece of art or something that a

designer wants to work on that currently that process is intimidating with the amount of

knowledge that you have to have to operate existing hardware and they wanted to make a desktop unit

that was approachable not just from a user experience standpoint and a scale standpoint

but also from a cost standpoint so this is on kickstarter right now and the early bird pricing

is under $6,000 USD and it fits on a desk. Now it is still heavy

It's over 100 kilograms. When it comes to CNCing, precision is really important

And in order to protect that precision, you have to have a substantial enough unit

And according to InfoMaker, this is pretty much as small and light as they could make it

while still producing results that people would be satisfied with. Here you can even see an Unbox Therapy logo in wood

that would look beautiful on the desk. You could make all kinds of different card holders or maybe you want to have a brass bowl And obviously also famously medals they just hard to work with Look at this we got a fifa world cup over here or more complex things like cuts inside of a cube this feels like aluminum

it can work all the way from real metal to wax and a bunch of different materials in between

supporting titanium aluminum jewelry wax epoxy tooling hardwood brass stainless steel acrylic

red copper jade i mean you can be making your own jewelry on this thing but really like the main part

here is just how easy it is to generate a 3d object so in this case we're just using text to

object i mean it generates the 3d object and goes to work making it this is even beyond what we're

capable of with 3d printers because a lot of 3d printers don't have that software you just go kind

of into their interface and pick objects that already exist give it a rough idea with language

based inputs and then there we are out of a single plain aluminum block we have our object based on

what we requested using nothing but natural language so even for a guy like me with zero

experience with cnc machines anything in this territory it's been incredibly easy to operate

and we're able to generate some cool objects some of these were sent to us to show examples

the acrylic fix for charging the magic mouse and our aluminum based object for optimus wearing a

hat and that's from some guys that have zero experience with cnc machines at all so if you've

been curious about this entire category but intimidated the infamaker could be for you

it's on kickstarter right now they've got early bird pricing and you can start experimenting with

making your own prototypes in what is maybe the easiest way to do so the k1 from infamaker