My new machine - Guess the make!

[JAZZCNC]

Under the circumstances we'll excuse you the requirement to cut an Aztec calendar to join the 'real men' of CNC.

Kit

Nah that's a test of the machine, not the "Man" and the machine has already done that as it's my test cut...

[Pilsbury]

Dean has cut an aluminium one prior to my pickup..... but I too have made an outside table top! Double man.

[Pilsbury]

I had a bash at a Lithophane last night. Strange thing where the carving looks weird until you hold it up to light. Carved in that engineered stone stuff Corian/Staron

Made another video creation if you’re interested. Maybe some of you have seen a CNC in operation before?!

https://youtu.be/JeOoTEsQQMQ

[JAZZCNC]

Another feather in your Cap Mr. Spielberg...

[Pilsbury]

Any more suggestions Dean? What else can you do with a CNC?!

Got a garden table idea to CNC some old parquet blocks up to make a funky pattern.

[Kitwn]

I had a bash at a Lithophane last night. Strange thing where the carving looks weird until you hold it up to light. Carved in that engineered stone stuff Corian/Staron

Made another video creation if you’re interested. Maybe some of you have seen a CNC in operation before?!

https://youtu.be/JeOoTEsQQMQ

That has to be the best bit of router-porn we've ever seen! Those close-ups!!!!

When are we going to see a tutorial on how to install that pendant and tool setter with UCCNC and where did you get the nice spindle spanners?

Excelent work as always.


Kit

[Pilsbury]

The pendant is plug and play. Dongle in a usb slot and hey presto it works like a charm.

Touch off plate and spanner’s came with the machine

[JAZZCNC]

The pendant is plug and play. Dongle in a usb slot and hey presto it works like a charm.

Touch off plate and spanner’s came with the machine

Well, not exactly correct, we set it up UCCNC before you took the machine so the pendants can be added at a later date if required. This is why it just worked for you.
However, that said it's not difficult, just a few settings in the plug-in and it's working. If anyone needs any help getting one to work just ask.

When are we going to see a tutorial on how to install that pendant and tool setter with UCCNC and where did you get the nice spindle spanners?

Kit the pendant is just a plug-in which you select from the plug-ins and adjust a few settings, it's simple enough to do.

The Tool setter is just a "free to use" macro, I think we got it from the UCCNC forum or some website and tweaked it to suit our needs. I would normally write my own but I didn't have time to mess around and UCCNC uses C## which I'm not the best at so it would have taken me even longer.
Again it's not difficult to get working, just copy and paste job into the right macro and make a change to a few settings in the macro to account for the thickness of your offset (touch plate). The wiring is simple, just create a circuit into a single input.

When I have a little time I will post the Macro.

Oh, the spanners are just 5mm plate cut on our plasma, nothing special.

[Pilsbury]

I’m back! Been off my CNC for a week or so whilst working and knocking up a garden table (home project) ..... but I did manage to squeeze a little bit of CNC into that. Cheeky little self promotion on the ends!! Might as well post a piccie seeing as it did get a little bit of CNC treatment.....

So I’ve had to get a proper fix and bang out another inlayed end grain chopping board. Really need to punt these out. I’ve got more boards than things to chop! Here’s a pic of the finished article and also a link to a video of me making it. If you’re bored and have 13minutes to spare, check it out.

https://youtu.be/4IbnvBNqFeI

[Pilsbury]

Just remembered. Never posted the finished world map thingy since I stained it. Here it is.... straight off the Mary Rose! Aaaarrrr!



Edit: Apologies- already posted this!