<story><title>Cricut Wants Users to Pay for Unlimited Use of Cutting Machines They Already Own</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/cricut-now-wants-users-to-pay-extra-for-unlimited-use-o-1846477745</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benrbray</author><text>Do you have any recommendations for machines that someone could reasonably fit in their home to replace a cricut?</text></item><item><author>ddingus</author><text>Mental note:  Never, ever buy anything that team is involved with.&lt;p&gt;I go way back with various machines.  Cutting, bending, printing, whatever.&lt;p&gt;If it won&amp;#x27;t take gcode, or some other open data to operate with, whatever it is, no matter how good it is, the answer is no.&lt;p&gt;Always no.&lt;p&gt;It has to take, gcode, svg, dxf, real postscript, hpgl, png, something.  And it has to do that offline, period.&lt;p&gt;There are great machines made in the 80&amp;#x27;s still making money, and I saw one just yesterday.  Wonderful to see.&lt;p&gt;Yes, I realize these are consumer grade machines, but what will also happen is these things will get abandoned.&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone will reverse engineer them and they become useful over the longer term.&lt;p&gt;I hope someone does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scoates</author><text>The reasonably-priced response to this is the CAMEO from Silhouette.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cricut Wants Users to Pay for Unlimited Use of Cutting Machines They Already Own</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/cricut-now-wants-users-to-pay-extra-for-unlimited-use-o-1846477745</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benrbray</author><text>Do you have any recommendations for machines that someone could reasonably fit in their home to replace a cricut?</text></item><item><author>ddingus</author><text>Mental note:  Never, ever buy anything that team is involved with.&lt;p&gt;I go way back with various machines.  Cutting, bending, printing, whatever.&lt;p&gt;If it won&amp;#x27;t take gcode, or some other open data to operate with, whatever it is, no matter how good it is, the answer is no.&lt;p&gt;Always no.&lt;p&gt;It has to take, gcode, svg, dxf, real postscript, hpgl, png, something.  And it has to do that offline, period.&lt;p&gt;There are great machines made in the 80&amp;#x27;s still making money, and I saw one just yesterday.  Wonderful to see.&lt;p&gt;Yes, I realize these are consumer grade machines, but what will also happen is these things will get abandoned.&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone will reverse engineer them and they become useful over the longer term.&lt;p&gt;I hope someone does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monknomo</author><text>US Cutter MH series cutter would probably fit the bill.  they range from small to quite large</text></comment>