Handibot

[dwtowner]

Just come across this neat tool:

Looks great!

dan.

[Scott M]

That's amazing! They've actually made a tool that's more faff than a straight router!

[Davey]

Ah, but it's Digital, so it must be good!

[Weatherlawyer]

Good for what? I watched the video but couldn't make any sense of it.

[Tim Watts]

On Thursday 26 September 2013 14:50 [e-mail] wrote in uk.d-i- y:

Sounds like something neat

for your tool

designed in Japan

[Davey]

I left out the at the end of my post.

[Graham.]

Among the things that bother me are it's apparently controlled by an "app" on smartphone which we never see, I wonder why?

The development was paid for by some sort of cloud financing scheme.

Is this an actual product, or just a concept prototype?

[Broadback]

I agree with you Davey, minus the

[meow2222]

Whats the point of it? (Looks clunky fwliw)

[dennis]

Suppose you wanted to put carvings on a wall panel in situ. A bigger one might be good for fitting sinks.

[John Rumm]

Its a portable CNC 3 axis routing / milling machine by the looks of it.

Better video here:

Compared to a fixed workshop filling CNC machine I could see the attraction for the more casual workshop user wanting to CNC small protects.