[GreenKeys] OT: Cuttin' stuff with a Silhouette Cameo craft machine

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

Gil - The ability to do signeage  appeals to me here at the museum  project 
 
how  large was the CraftRobo?   With the  cost of   outsourceing    sign 
work  this  would  quickly  pay  for it self
 
Ed#
 
 
In a message dated 5/20/2013 7:52:54 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
gil at baudot.net writes:

A handy little machine, especially with the optical sensor to detect  
registration marks on something you have printed, and cut accurately to your  
drawing. Anyone here making a DIY box of electronics might appreciate the  
chassis overlay I did.



As for the solderpaste stencils I have cut, I cut one for a part that had  
pads on 20-mil centers -- the holes were about .012 wide and the mylar  
remaining between them about .008.  That's pretty accurate  cutting.



The Cricut is a closed system, only able to use their cartridges,   The 
Cameo has an open usb language.


The company is now called Silhouette, though the original design  (Japanese 
I believe) must be from a company called Graphtec.  There was  an older, 
bigger unit called a CraftRobo, and then a Silhouette SD, and now  the Cameo.  
They all use the graphtec cutting commands.


The Cameo is under $300, can cut up to 12" wide, uses sticky cutting mats  
for sheet stock up to 12x24, or can use adhesive-backed vinyl roll stock up 
to  about ten feet long for signs n' such.  




gil smith

greenkeys moderator
_gil at baudot.net_ (mailto:gil at baudot.net) 





-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re:  [GreenKeys] OT: Cuttin' stuff with a Silhouette Cameo  craft
machine
From: _COURYHOUSE at aol.com_ (mailto:COURYHOUSE at aol.com) 
Date: Sun, May  19, 2013 11:13 pm
To: _gil at baudot.net_ (mailto:gil at baudot.net) , _greenkeys at mailman.qth.net_ 
(mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net) 

this is a great application for it..  I had  seen the   Cricut  cutter 
machine  on the TV set and  Had  interesting  thoughts  about   what  I   could  
do.  The Cameo seems even more capabile 
 
keep us  updated!
 
 
Ed#
 
 
In a message dated 5/19/2013 9:56:52 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
_gil at baudot.net_ (mailto:gil at baudot.net)   writes:

Hey folks:


An off-topic post that perhaps some of you will find interesting -- I  got 
a Silhouette Cameo craft cutter, primarily to cut stencils  for making 
prototype circuit boards, but also to try making adhesive  chassis overlays.  
Here is an update on my latest  experiments:



Making Chassis Overlays:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=5485

Making a stencil, and assembling a proto surface-mount pcb:

(this link takes you near the bottom of page 3 of a multi-page post  -- it 
continues on page 4)
(most of this thread is pretty boring as we were discussing how to  get 
this working)

(yeah, teletypeguy -- you can probably guess that is me)

http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=5341&start=30#p522
74



gil




gil smith
greenkeys moderator
_gil at baudot.net_ (mailto:gil at baudot.net) 



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