Powered

• Shop Air

Powered

• Drum Sander
• Spindle Sander
• Drill Doctor
• Sharpening station
• Stacked dado head set
• Chainsaw (Electric/Gas-Powered) for forming green wood
• Belt and/or disc Sander
• Panel Saw
• Thickness Planer

Hand / Unpowered

• Misc. Hand Planes
• Clamps, other clamps, more clamps, and things designed to hold things together firmly
• Bench Vices
• Woodworking bench with dogs
• Tack Hammer

Powered

• 3-Axis Mill (Manual)
• 3-Axis Mill (CNC)
• metal bandsaw

Hand / Unpowered

• Pipe Bending Forms
• Sheet Metal Brake
• Punch
• sheet metal nibbler
• casting setup (sand and and lost wax)
• english wheel

• Industrial Sewing Machine
• Serger
• CNC Vinyl Cutter
• vacuform table
• tile wet saw

Hand and Unpowered

• Leather Stitching Pony
• kiln (wood and gas fired)
• leather working tools
• scissors

• reflow solder oven
• PCB etching station

Software

• AutoCAD
• InventorLT

Hardware

• wax printer
• inkjet printer
• 3D Scanner like this or this

CNC

• waterjet cutter
• reprap
• ProtoMat-type PCB mill

Epilog Mini 24 x 12 - 35 watt or equivalent approx $17,000 also needs a Ventilation/ Filtration system SPH-400 system approx $2000.00 Good resource on ladyada's site and NYC Resistor's site

The Epilog Mini has been the starter laser for many hackerspaces. Epilog makes a small entry laser cutter the zing for about 8,000, this is a great value but has a tiny work area.

There are some really cheap alternatives that have started to arrive on the market see rabbit laser These have just started to make an impact on the market late 2010. Some people are getting good results but it remains questionable if they are long term reliable.

Kickstarter funded Lasersaur also look promising but as of March 2011 is not available.