Reiyuki

Historic TAIG Post

I received the final parts for my CNC mill 3 days ago, and I figured I’d start by posting all the pics, parts, and documentation I have produced up through that day.

The first bits came in last week, in a few pieces below:

I had purchased a small lathe a while back and made a couple simple projects out of it while waiting for the CNC(mosty chess pieces out of aluminum).

Here’s the completed setup, minus the motors and controller. Kind of a dead-weight without those.

Here’s a small tool I made. I epoxied a pen to a piece of aluminum, then sawed, drilled, and tapped a slot of aluminum on the other side. The pen had it’s spring-load modified, so it will start to retract into the body when the pen force on the paper reaches a certain amount.

The motors/controller came, and I quickly put the rest together and fired it up:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9mxTwRO-LOM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=STvcM2YlMRo

Very first cut with the mill. (Technically, I had the steps-per-inch set incorrectly, so those letters should have been the full height of the board.)

That’s it