Growth · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to CNC Machines Scholarship
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. CNC Machines Scholarship launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1IB
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 2WM
Hello, we're Max and Byran from MUREX Robotics, a high school robotics team from Exeter, New Hampshire. We are super proud to have made this open source piece of technology! It is only 6.9 dollars (actually!) from JLCPCB :) I hope you like it. You can find us at [email protected] and [email protected] as well if you have any questions. We will be putting a small run of these boards for sale somewhere (we have <25 units of stock), probably for $10+shipping. Let us know if you're interested in more! Board files for everything we make is here:…
2024 · docs.murexrobotics.com · its alternatives →
- 3CC
Hey HN, I am Cam, and for the past two years I have been working on Compass, an open-source handheld CNC router that brings computer precision to woodworking while keeping the user directly involved in the process. The idea started as my senior design project at UC Berkeley, with the goal of making a more approachable CNC machine—standard CNC machines are expensive, bulky, and remove you from the tactile “maker” experience. Compass solves that by combining a handheld router with real-time robotic assistance. You move the router roughly along a design path, and Compass uses four optical flow…
2025 · compassrouter.com · its alternatives →
- 4HT
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 5AG
Hi HN, Last year, we launched a non-profit AI research lab called AI Grant (http://aigrant.org). Our goal is to fund promising people around the world working on AI. No strings attached. We've since given away over $100,000 to 30 teams working on different projects. You can see some of them here: http://aigrant.org/#finalists. We just started accepting applications for our third batch! The academic grant application process is burdensome. It's only avalible to a choice few. Applications take days to complete. AI Grant is open to anyone on the internet. You can apply…
2018 · its alternatives →
- 6HS
Hello HN! My name is Patrick, and I am a junior at my High School’s FRC robotics team FRC 341 “Miss Daisy” (yes named after the movie). Every year, during the first weekend in January, a new robotics game is released (no it’s not battlebots). The game could be about launching balls into a goal, climbing monkeybars, or placing cubes on a see-saw. This year we were challenged to build a robot that could shoot orange foam donuts into a goal about 6 feet in the air. Here is a yt video with the game animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9keeDyFxzY4&t. After we received the game…
2024 · chiefdelphi.com · its alternatives →
- 7WF
2015 · janka102.github.io · its alternatives →
- 8CM
2024 · anfractuosity.com · its alternatives →
- 9HT
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 12IM
I built this over the last 1.5 years from scratch. I think the build is interesting and novel and haven't seen any others that are similar.
2023 · old.reddit.com · its alternatives →
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Ready-to-run CNC mill that's at home in any environment
2017 · its alternatives →
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A collection of free CNC calculators for workshop use
2025 · ekinsun.com · its alternatives →
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Endurance 10000 mW laser 445 nm module with continuous power
2018 · its alternatives →
- 24EA
Just finished a super-nerdy amateur hobby project: An exhibit and website to show kids how cool mechanisms are! Sadly, kids don't get much tangible experience with machines anymore. Ideally, this exhibit will inspire some to explore engineering, even if they are not "book learners". The website provides content to back up the exhibit, with videos and 3D printing files. The project is inspired by engineering exhibits from the past. Check out the research page for more. The project will be open-sourced to enable people to make their own and extend it. If you want to collaborate, LMK. --Steve
2025 · mechanical-library.org · its alternatives →
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