Derek Lahr is a grad student and senior member of the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa), a facility for graduate and undergraduate robotics research and education at Virginia Tech. Lahr also owns a Tormach PCNC 1100 mill, using it inside and outside the classroom.

If you haven't checked out the customer showcase yet, you should. Its simple: we award a gift certificate to the best entry each month. Anybody using their Tormach can enter. The March winner is Ilo Flloyd from Houston and his impressive RC Dragsters. Ilo has made just about every single part of this car on his Tormach PCNC 1100 - Aluminum frame, milled Carbon Fiber front end, Drivetrain Sprockets. Very impressive part fixturing, very impressive CAD modeling. And the car goes really really fast (90 mph +)