PCB Mill-Drill Built From Makeblock Beams
Stijn Kuipers is using his Makeblock aluminum building set to build a PCB mill with two rotary tools, one for boring the vias, and the other for milling the traces.
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Shapeoko 2 Milling Machine Launches Today
Shapeoko promised a $300 desktop CNC mill, and the first version delivered. The Shapeoko 2 goes on pre-sale today.
Digital Fabber’s 2nd Annual CNC Jamboree
Digital Fabber’s CNC Jamboree recently held its second annual event in Long Lake Park in Lakeville, OH last month. It looked like a really cool event with demonstrations of CNC machines, classes on CBC best practices, and a show and tell of projects.
WaterColorBot Goes Into Production
Evil Mad Science’s WaterColorBot has gone into production, meaning its design–at least for this production run–has been finalized.
13 Steps to Make a Cylindrical Wooden Enclosure
Want to make a wooden enclosure in the shape of a tube? This project uses scrap pine, cut into ring shapes and then glued. You can then smooth the outside in a lathe, then cut it open to add the guts of the project.
PocketNC, an Affordable Five-Axis CNC
Jaws drop when makers see a five-axis CNC at work. That’s what happened to me when I saw PocketNC performing its magic. I peered closely and saw a spindle moving along two axes milling a piece of plastic mounted on a trunnion moving along/around three axes. The result of a three-year, four-prototype development effort of husband and wife team Matt and Michelle Hertel, PocketNC is getting ready for market.
How to Build a CNC-Milled Orrery
Ken Condal’s fantastic orrery took ten months to build and contains 30 gears. He began his work by modeling the orrery in 3DS MAX, then milling out all of the brass gears in his workshop. He also created the planets on a lathe using exotic wood, like using zebrawood for Jupiter.
