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Hey at least they don't require you to buy a 26,000 junk cnc like PLTW use to.
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After our first year at our new highschool, the PLTW coordinator for the area who knows very little of our robotics program or the engineering support behind it... decided we needed a PLTW CNC course. We strongly recommended something like a Tormach PCNC.... we're getting not one... but TWO! of the Intelitek BenchMill 6000s (which fits the bill of the overpriced CNC) They are ~$20K a pop with all the bells and whistles, use an ISO20 toolset which matches none of the R8 we already have, and it has a whopping 10"x6" work area.
Yah.... just had to rant a bit on the same topic. Not to sound ungrateful because we're lucky to be getting new toys, but I wish they would consider a "non-educational" product that is a higher value.