Archive for March, 2010
Hello World!
You’re currently seeing our first fully completed cut. Also, we managed to restart that piece we were cutting last night until we hit the 500 line limit on the trial of Mach 3 with pretty good results too.
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Here’s a video of us cutting it, from start to finish.
And here’s the sanding process that finishes it.
First (good) Sawdust
Posted by wjconrad in Bed Assembly, Carriages, Controller, Mill Progress, Motor mounts on March 14, 2010
Today we got the T-track hold down system and our spoilboard setup. Now we actually have some good looking pictures to share. What you’re seeing the “RLD” part of HELLO WORLD, since we accidentally ran into the 500 line limit of the demo Mach3 and couldn’t finish it. We should have a more complete version later this week, and hopefully some video of cutting.
Yep, we're running
Posted by wjconrad in Carriages, Controller, Mill Progress, Motor mounts on March 14, 2010
Last night we saw our first sawdust. There’s still a lot of tweaking and some additional work, but we managed to cut the letter “D” into a board of MDF and freehand a quick “Hi” into a piece of 2×4 we had around.
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X-Axis runs too!
Posted by wjconrad in Carriages, Controller, Mill Progress, Motor mounts on March 11, 2010
Our X-axis is now running, and we’ve tuned it up a little bit for faster speeds. I think a working Z-axis is very plausible this weekend at the rate we’ve been working.
Moving Pictures
Posted by wjconrad in Carriages, Controller, Mill Progress, Motor mounts on March 11, 2010
Alright I know we’ve been sort of slacking on posting our progress updates here, and I apologize. We’ve been so busy actually making progress we just haven’t had the time to sit around and write about it.
For instance, we’ve got two Youtube videos you should probably watch. Watch the videos, then click “More” and I’ll discuss them.