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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.

April 1, 2013
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.

March 24, 2013
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.

March 23, 2013
DIY CNC calibration tests

In my last tests of my CNC router it became very clear that calibration was not right.

March 17, 2013
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…

March 17, 2013
DIY CNC Router – plotting test

This week I figured out what I needed to in order to send sensible gcode to my DIY CNC.

March 9, 2013
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

March 3, 2013
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.

February 9, 2013
Project: Tilting lap desk

For the last couple of years my wife and I have introduced a tradition of making our gifts for each other. This year that gift was what I am calling a ‘lap desk’ but I guess it just a freestanding mini desk that has a tilting top.

December 28, 2012
Makeshift desk

In our house, one thing was made very clear from before we even moved in. The garage is my territory, and the study is my wife’s.

October 21, 2012

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