Seeing as how I am constantly inundated by media requests – I figured I would use my podium here to ask the readers a few questions. I look at it as distributed googling really, and hopefully finding some vetted answers in the sea of confusion that is out there. 1) has anyone used CHDK here? …
Category Archives: cnc router
DIY CNC router build update
It’s been quite a while since my router arrived in the mail. It came in mid winter and essentially stopped all cnc progress. It was much heavier than I had expected, and the gantry I had built wasn’t up to the task. The x and y axes were finished, but needed to be rebuilt stronger. …
Get yer lase on
As of last night I got my 16x sony diode all plugged in and turned on! I’ll have some pictures to prove it in a bit. I’m excited, but I really was expecting a bit more danger in the process. It’s bright, and it cuts very thin, dark things. It might even do a decent …
Treatise on living and loving lasers
In case you haven’t caught on yet. I love projects, and I am always starting a new one in order to abandon an old one. Recently I have become fascinated by the DIY laser movement propagated by the fine people over at laserpointerforums.com. My interest was piqued initially by “lamedust” who posted an instructable here …
Parts list (AKA why I’ve been eating ramen and coffee)
So here are the bits I’ve bought already Xylotex 3 axis system kit with 425Oz/in stepper motors enco 12′ of 1/2″ acme rod 8 matching nuts thebigbearingstore.com 6 1/2″ 2 bolt pillow block bearings 8 1/2″ shaft collars Home Depot Tons of bolts, nuts, washers, bits and doodads. 20′ of galvanized steel u-channel (not really …
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