Sometimes I would come across situations when I would wish I had a protractor to measure angles in my projects. I had been using transparent plastic protractors all these while. They were cheap. Unfortunately, these were rather soft and could […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had been quite successful doing single depth of cut engraving for some time now. Now I was looking for new capabilities. I had previously cut some 2.5D graphics on wood or phenolic boards. It was during one of these […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recently, I came across some techniques for stippling pictures which were suitable for cnc milling. The strippling technique was ideal for the pen plotter, but since I had already installed a milling spindle for cutting, I thought it would be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Currently, what I did to obtain a zero position for my z-axis was to manually command jog linuxCNC to lower the z-axis until the milling tool touched the work piece and then set this position as the zero home position. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was now ready to explore what I can do with my new cnc machine. I happened to have a soft board lying around after I had cut some discs out of it for stopping my x-axis parallel rods from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The previous test was only a simulation, but it was very useful. It served to teach me what to do in order to generate G-codes for the machine. Well, Christmas was over, but I did managed to have some time […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today is Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone! With all the three axes of the cnc machine physically able to work, my next attention was drawn to working out how to generate my own graphics or text that could be translated to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…