[throwaway81523]

I'm not too excited by the idea of making little plastic precision gearboxes for robots, so when PLA printing isn't good enough, I mostly want to machine metal. Not car parts or firearms but flashlight bodies, knife blades, small tools, that sort of thing. Nothing wrong with robotics but there are other interesting areas too. I think the article skips over that a little too easily. That said, it's a good article.

[WillAdams]

Flashlight body would probably want a lathe, but one of the newer flat ones would be easy in two halves.

For an example of a knife blade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TYla5x-Nk

small tool:

https://community.carbide3d.com/t/nomad-made-custom-titanium...