So, the wife wants a "Cricut" computer controlled die cutter, for making scrapbooking stuff. Looks cool enough, basically a X-Y plotter with a knife instead of a pen. But, it doesn't seem to have a way to cut an arbitrary pattern, and (of course) you have to buy each font on a cartridge for 50 bucks each or whatever.
Anyone have a source for something like this? Let me send an arbitrary outline to a machine that'll cut it out for me? Seems like an easy enough product to find but I'm coming up with some very wild google responses.