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On the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield stage today, Wazer showed off its $6,000 desktop water cutter for the first time.
On the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield stage today, Wazer showed off its $6,000 desktop water cutter for the first time.
The water cutter works by using a tightly focused jet of water and abrasive particles (fancy sand, basically, known as garnet).
The water cutter works by using a tightly focused jet of water and abrasive particles (fancy sand, basically, known as garnet).
This is more or less how Trent Lau described his first encounter with the CoLab's new ProtoMax water cutter, a top-of-the-line personal abrasive waterjet which allows users to slice through as much as one inch of practically any material with laughable ease.
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"For the Kickstarter campaign, we expect to sell in the hundreds of units," Lerea says, revealing that he doesn't believe that water cutters will be as wide-spread as other fabrication techniques.
But Kent, Wash.-based Omax Corp., a leading maker of high-end water cutters, hints that it's consulting with MIT Professor Alex Slocum on a new jet method that could bring the price to below $50,000.
They will use equipment such as 3D printers, laser cutters, water jet cutters and electronics fabricators to build physical prototypes of their technologies.
Target applications include noncontacting machines such as laser cutters and markers, water jet cutters, and adhesive applicators.
The installation is composed of aluminum pieces shaped with a water jet cutter.
The water jet cutter is capable of cleanly cutting through glass, metal and ceramic pieces up to an inch thick.
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