Hey, look at that - I made a feature post! Thanks for the kind words and encouragement in the article!
So, the Y-Axis Servo Mount had to be re-designed. Turned out I made the standoffs too tall and there was too much side-to-side mis-alignment...
Yeah, bees don't enter into it. Finished shots should be coming shortly - just gotta finish edit/resize/etc. Thanks for the kind words. I...
Yeah, me neither. It will be the first thing the machine cuts. They are 360 oz-in. A lot of people have used them, with good results....
Actually, yes - I'm co-opening a Coffee Shop/Bakery. I would love to have a spindle that could make use of an automatic tool changer. Maybe...
This big glaring mistake...er rather, just something I didn't think of: [IMG] With the servo mounted this way for the Y-Axis, the Z-Axis...
Of course, I need to mount the Servo to the front plate for the X-Axis! Here you can see where the spindle for the X-Axis ballscrew come...
Laying out the cut-lines for the Servo mounting plates: [IMG] All cut: [IMG] Now, where they mount to the machine itself, I wanted it...
Dual row of holes drilled for the linear slide: [IMG] Tapped: [IMG] Mounted: [IMG] Now I wanted to add some physical stops so I...
Making the Z-Axis Ballscrew bearing-plate. For ease, I decided to make it out of polycarbonate. I will make a new one out of aluminium down the...
Ok, bolted the Y-Axis Ballscrew to the Crossplate. Now to make the Z-Axis! Here is how the Ballscrew and Linear Slide will be laid out...
Wow, this is going to be an interesting one! How tall do you think it will end-up?
One could certainly make do with less. There are plenty of people that make capable Hobby CNC machines out of MDF - and they work for light...
That's just absolutely terrifying - great job so far! Looks like you do creature creation for a living?
As fun as the electricity chat is, time for an update! My FTP access is back up and running - so here is Part 1 of the 'big update' (part two...
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