It turned out to be quite an epic weekend of building boards and getting things up and running. It’s good to be back in the groove with my own electronics projects – it’s been far too long that I’ve been away.
As a wrap-up to the weekend I thought I’d put together a bit of a review video for where the CNC electronics project stands. You can see all of the boards I’ve worked on over the last couple months (and assembled entirely this weekend).
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…