I just chain-sawed a sugar maple log into some boards to make some bluebird houses. Funny how we've both gone in opposite directions. This tech is now way over my head, as I'm regressing into some kind of weirdo earthy Luddite. In a way, it's all the same; we both just tinker. Hope you're doing well ;)
Lol it's nice that you can make something pleasant with one of the most ominous tools in the world. I'm ok, still trying to future proof my career with this stuff - although it's such a time vacuum. I think you'd find uses for CNC pretty easily - it's not as difficult as it looks from the onset. You often find brilliant ways to use tools, and build complicated things accurately - just think what you could do with a starship replicator.
@@EducatingSavvas There are no lead fumes, just flux fumes. You could grab a carbon mask from wickes or make an extractor. I do neither and I am f f f fine.
Really beautiful looking machine, you've come so far. That issue with the two reset buttons and the requirement for rehoming as well as the losing steps at high speed could be eliminated or greatly reduced if there were some way to easily add encoders to your steppers. I've been looking for such a system and found they are either too expensive being made for the industrial market or too crude and only partially working for the hobbyist. There are some new BLDC servo projects that look promising but that's a huge change. Anyone know of a good stepper/servo for CNC project?
Thanks! I feel like I started with a donkey and now on a satellite. I was looking into encoders as well, and as you say it's a mixed bag. I think omc started selling something which looked like it worth testing? I'm a little away from trying that out.
Banggood has nema23 steppers with encoders, a hybrid solution. Works with a proper Bob. I will get some in the next months for my nema23, Mesa 7i96 machine.
@@BrianBoniMakes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bb6QK_-I_CQ.html , user Neo7CNC, nice bloke, I won a titanium loop alien from him (I never won a 3d printer though, just sayin, lol). Clear path servos, not sure if that's just a rebrand. sure they can go thru regular mach3 type breakout board.
I feel like I missed a video where you changed from the dedicated stepper drivers to the controller board with the smaller drivers... Just means more videos to watch
Lol and I still have a lot more videos to make. I wanted to try make a CNC machine with a smaller footprint and smaller control box, and also improved on some of the issues with the previous machine.
For soldering, first make a mechanical connection (wrap the wire around or through the terminal) then heat the joint with your soldering iron and melt the solder *on the joint itself*, because: 1. Solder won't bond well to cold metal. Try dropping blobs on a cold (solderable) metal piece and see how many stick. 2. Hot metal tends to oxidize. This includes the wire, the terminal, the hot solder on the soldering iron tip... The flux is intended to clean the wire and terminal. Burning it all up beforehand on the tip of the soldering iron, then allowing a few moments for that hot solder to oxidize, then globbing it onto a cold terminal, will get you less than optimal results.
Thanks. The idea was to use the opto-isolators on the relay modules to try shield the controller somewhat. Meant I could use higher voltage and will create logical connections between buttons or limits and board. Also the input terminals are really tiny on the controller and I've already broken one. Kinda easier to wire to the larger ones further along.
When printing a large flat piece like that, there is no benefit of a brim. The brim is useful when you print something that is tall with a small footprint, to add adhesion.
