There's nothing simple about building precision machines.
Added 2025-04-05 02:17:51 +0000 UTCWho likes good news? [everyone raises their hands] Everyone? Then good news, everyone!
After just over a month of round-the-clock crimping, soldering, bending, folding, terminating, debugging, desoldering, resoldering, debugging, rebugging, trimming, fastening, and debugging - I’ve finally got the machine back to the stage it was before I set foot down the path of completely overhauling the control system.
And by that I mean I can feed it GCODE, change tools (manually, for now) and measure tool length offsets, run probing cycles, and not worry (beyond a healthy level of caution required with such machines) that it may, at any moment, decide to turn on me, either by letting out the magic smoke, or move in such a way to destroy itself, or indeed me, personally.
Wrapping my head around LinuxCNC definitely took some chin scratching, but now that I’ve got some amount of intuition for how it (both in terms of UI, and the hardware abstraction layer, or “HAL”) operates, I have to say I’m really excited for future additions to the machine.
For now, here’s some progress pictures that might interest you.
Comments
Damn, that's a nice looking rig you've built there. Something like this has been on my to-do list for a while, and you are demonstrating what may be possible, very much inspiring me with your work!
Nicholas Burgin
2025-04-05 03:10:30 +0000 UTCDidn’t need the last three words mate 🤣
Geoff Williams
2025-04-05 02:25:30 +0000 UTC
