DIY CNC Router – Making my first thing! an Arduino Uno box
If you have been following along at home, then you’ll know that last time I had a successful attempt at engraving a sign. With one main caveat. The backlash on the x-axis was still evident and ran to about 2mm.
DIY CNC Router – successful sign cutting test.
Woo hoo! Today I had what I’m categorising as my first full on successful run though a whole sign engrave program.
DIY CNC Router – Binding and Backlash – a journey of discovery
Pretty much since the first time I turned on my CNC machine I became familiar with the term ‘binding’. The various axis had points where due to slight inaccuracies of construction the threaded rod was rubbing against something causing so much friction that the motor stalled.
DIY CNC Router – drilling and routing test 1
Last weekend was the first time I got my cnc router to do something recognisable. After some tuning I got it to plot out a simplified version of my blog logo, backwards…
DIY CNC Router – plotting test
This week I figured out what I needed to in order to send sensible gcode to my DIY CNC.
CNC Router 3 axis test
Today for the first time I attached all the motors to my CNC router. Here are a couple of time-lapsefilms of me tinkering with the system
CNC Electronics : Arduino Uno + GRBL
After some considerable delay since I first started with the idea of building myself a cnc router, I am now working on the electronics in earnest.
Learning electronics
I am a man of many interests. I generally feel there is not enough time to do and learn all the things I would like.
Learning CAD, Designing with openSCAD
F2!? seriously openSCAD F2!!!???what the hell? It was an hour into my first experience with designing with openSCAD, when disaster struck. But I’m jumping ahead, lets go back to the beginning…
