Posted by John Hestness on November 1, 2014 at 8:30am
I laughed when I first saw these. Here is a picture of several pieces in a tictac box. But on second thought they probably have a lot of uses and relevancy here on DIYdrones. There is a Kickstarter going on now. Enjoy.
Acorn - stability under hot conditions and more importantly, precision. I use OpenBeam, and would not use it if it was extruded plastic. It would be nowhere near as good. The major advantage over stock materials is that things come together very quickly using the kits - it just works first time, every time.
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Nanobeams are 5 mm x 5 mm. MicroRax and Maker Beam are 10 mm x 10 mm. The original T slot extrusions are 20 mm and up.
doesn't Spark-fun have these listed under microrax ???
Acorn - stability under hot conditions and more importantly, precision. I use OpenBeam, and would not use it if it was extruded plastic. It would be nowhere near as good. The major advantage over stock materials is that things come together very quickly using the kits - it just works first time, every time.
Why not extruded plastic?
^^ Meh, nothing you can't do with some aluminum or steel stock. . .
Looks a lot like Fischertechnik.