I wired up all three axes today, and also hooked up the super high quality 200V DMM module that I picked up on eBay direct from China.
Here it is whirring away to the dulcet tones of Andrew Bird from my shop speakers. It’s running the torus demo from the EMC2 live CD.
Final positions for the DIN rails and wire management have been nailed down. It’s much more tight than one should really wire a panel like this, but…
It seems to be a rule that no matter what size electronics enclosure you have, you will always have at least 10% more stuff that you need…
While I still haven’t gotten into the detail of squaring and tramming, I’ve been intensely curious to see if the new Z axis would be happier with…
Since 2009, I’ve been messing around with CNC machines. I started out with a small manual milling machine from Grizzly, and converted it to CNC using a…
Hauled the column back down to the shop and mounted it back on the machine. Sure is a lot heavier than it used to be! Muscling things…
Had some productive time in the shop during the holiday. First step was to make the counterbores for the M6 cap screws a bit deeper. Easy to…
Andrew Bird and electronic things? You’re becoming a hipster. Next thing you’ll be riding a fixie.
I wish I knew what any of this stuff was. I trust it’s really full of awesomeness. Is that a flower on your monitor?
Robyn: The upshot of all of this stuff, once it’s attached to my milling machine, is that I’ll hopefully be able to more easily draw a part in CAD and then make it out of metal or plastic. Not quite as easy as “printing parts” but hopefully many steps closer.
The thing that looks like a flower is half a torus (donut). If this were hooked up to the machine and everything was working, I’d be able to cut that 3D shape out of actual material.
Josh: You know me. Designer glasses… Black turtlenecks…