Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] $250 machine .. what about the 'big boys'?

I wonder why one of the 'biggies' in home-shop/construction tools hasn't
come out with an 'affordable' smallish CNC gantry machine/router. I'd
think Makita, Ryobi, etc. could produce one for a decent price.

And that's just flatbed stuff. Why aren't there any reasonably priced
smallish-scale 3-D (prototype) machines yet?? Why are we still building
these things ourselves?? (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

Guess they don't see a real market for such a thing ... or their
designers don't have much 'vision' .. or both?? I know they're mainly
in the home construction game, but tools is tools. :)

Here we are in the 21st century, and they're pretty much still trodding
on, remaking the same very basic tools, in an occasional new set of
clothes, over and over. No real innovation from any of them, that I can
see.

Sorry to hijack the original poster's thread, but this has been bugging
me for some time now. :)

Ron Yost