Charles Taylor sent us a nice update using one of our CNC shields combined with a Raspberry Pi and an Alamode. He created a step by step instructions and its available on Instructables. http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Alamode-CNC-Controller/?ALLSTEPS Related articles across the web Most Popular Raspberry Pi Case: Short Crust AlaMode Arduino Compatible shield for Raspberry Pi Five Best … Read More →
Christian von Koenigsegg is a big name in super sports car industry and he has taken some time to share a bit of their process and how they use 3d printing to make their cars the best in the world. More on the new turbo they have designed…
A few months ago while designing the Arduino CNC Shield I bumped into a guy that was also going through the process of building a CNC machine. Between us we had some good brain storms and ended up with the current version of the CNC Shield. He has been keeping himself busy with a few interesting … Read More →
I finally bit the bullet and bought an entry-level laser cutter(Link to Listing). I have always wanted a laser cutter but a decent machine has always been outside my budget until now. These cheap chinese laser cutters are notorious for horrible software and electronics but relatively good laser tubes. With the success of my Arduino … Read More →
Using printed circuit boards (PCB’s) the designers of these tiny robots were able to make them move and to build tiny structures from carbon fibre that can carry many times the loads these little robots can carry. These little machines are also able to work together, spreading the load and taking on bigger loads. Related … Read More →
This Raspberry Pi cnc machine with see-through LCD screen is a very interesting idea…
This blog post is a collection of useful commands that can be used with Raspberry Pi’s and other Debian based systems. I will update it with more useful commands as I find more.. 😉 Download a file from the internet sudo wget URL_OF_FILE_TO_DOWNLOAD Unzipping Zip Files unzip ZIP_FILENAME Shut Down sudo shutdown -h now SSH … Read More →
Sketchup is handy tool cad tool for creating 3D models. It can actually also be used to create work files for CNC routers. The following video explains how to create a drawing in Sketchup, convert it to a SVG file. Then with the help of an online tool called http://www.makercam.com/ generate the G-Code needed to run … Read More →
Most CNC machines have no inherent sense of their absolute position and where their cutting heads are positioned. Zeroing a CNC Machine is the process of making sure that your CNC is precisely setup for the material that it is going to cut(giving it absolute positioning). For a milling machine that includes making sure that X … Read More →
Introduction into RS-485 and CAN Bus After playing with micro controllers for a bit it gets clear that at some stage you want to control things at a distance. Doing this can very quickly get complicated and expensive. For the particular projects I wanted to control wireless was not an option as it was too … Read More →
