Recently, I came across an interesting ship design called the Littoral Combat Ship or LCS for short, that would make a good subject for a v-groove carving project. With my movable gantry cnc machine this would be easy to do. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a paper roll holder which was made of plastic. It was installed behind one of the doors of the kitchen cabinet below the sink. Unfortunately, it was broken off when I was trying to move about while trying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Movable Gantry CNC machine fitted with a laser module moves about the work space according to the program g-code interpreted by LinuxCNC. As the machine was not totally enclosed, I had fitted a protective shoe to the laser module […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The laser engraving did produce a bit of smoke. So I had to exhaust it away from my workshop. I found a 2.2 cubic meters per minute centrifugal fan that would be very suitable for exhausting the smoke away. I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All these while, I had been operating my diy movable gantry cnc machine as a milling machine. I knew that I could easily convert it to become a laser cnc machine, but somehow I had kept postponing it. Perhaps I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had obtained a few pieces of phenolic boards that was discarded from a switchboard maker. As they were quite stiff I thought I could make use of them to make some clamps for my movable gantry cnc machine. I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the holder for my spindle could be removed so that I could replace it with a laser module holder, or a pen holder, I sometimes found that this arrangement could very often cause inaccuracy issues. This was because the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today, we look back at how we have progressed with our cnc machines. I started to investigate how to control cnc movement using a floppy drive. The floppy drive of a computer already had a stepper motor for moving the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When shooting videos of my diy or cnc projects, it was difficult to get closeup shots using my normal camera mounted on a tripod. I needed some equipment that can bring my camera up close to what I was doing. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…