Hi!
Someone said more than 2000 years ago, "Ars longa, vita bravis"
Ask for the meaning, because I'm sure you don't know it. It is tought
only at the best Universityes in the world. They have the money, the
labs, and the brains. As I noticed your research project is seeking agressively quick and easy profit. Your professors encouriges you, but they
don't know about real life. Most of their knowledge is from books and theoretical. You want to do a research but your questions are wrong.
Even if you got the data requiered, you have no disision making experience
from real life. If more people are involved, they have difference in opinion,
and views could be influenced by feelings. Also as many things in this life are
circumstantial. Also ignorance is noticed to other members ideas, you think
your project didnt occured in any member mind?
For your info Fisher from Germany had years ago a simple plotter, lather
they stopped production, for some reason. They have the money, the sientists, and the market risearchers. Sherline has some cnc retrofits,
and people buy them, because those mills can cut steel accurately.
With a smaller machine you can produce a larger one. To be honest, I never seen any useful product, which small homemade mills made for years surfing,
expect wooden decorations, foam signs, model aircrafts. Even the bigger machines for 10000$ cant really produce usefull stuff. Cnc stands for high speed accurate duplication, if you miss it out from your research. A lots of items produced on Cnc you can mass produce with jigs, once you have it. In woodworking accuracy is not that critical, cause property of wood. Now to compete against Sherlaine mill for example you need servo drivers for speed,
linear bearings for accuracy, and you are aproaching with your costs their mill price. Also there are legal things involved, someone can sue you, who has more money than you, some crazy lawyer, or worst paraligal who has all
the time on the world to go to trials. For patent or copyright infragment.
If you are after money, study banking and financing. You will achive your
goals quicker and the latin sentenc woud loose its meaning.
Rossz the Philosopher