• 3D Printed Planetary Gears

    I wanted to try and print some planetary gears to try and make my 4th axis work better.

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  • RepRap - 3D Printer

    Here's my journey of building a Reprap 3d Printer. Took about two weeks to get to the point where I was printing and I am still tweaking things to get good prints but it's working well enough to share :)

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  • Homemade Bandsaw Bearing Guides

    Here's how I made my own bandsaw bearing guides from aluminum tuping and regular skate bearings - for like $20 :)

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  • Homemade Power Drive

    Using a Parallax Propeller Proto board and a Pololu Stepper Driver - I've built a home made power drive for my lathe / mill / drill - Check it out!

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  • Timing Pulleys

    I am working on a project for my Enco Mill Drill Lathe - it's a Power Feed driven by a Parallax Propeller and EasyDriver - part of the project involves making some Timing Pulleys to hook it all up! So this post is about the Timing Pulleys! Check out some pictures and videos!

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  • Latest 4th Axis

    I just realized that I've never uploaded anything about my latest 4th Axis that I've thrown together - so here are some pictures and a video about it!

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Praying Soldier

I made a "praying soldier" yard silhouette piece for a lady who found me on Craig's List. Stands about 30" tall and about 40" wide - Check out the pictures!

All I had to work with was an image of the piece she wanted, so I loaded that into Adobe Illustrator and "Live Traced" it. Then I saved it as an EPS file and imported it into Mastercam and set the toolpaths for machining it. Next I loaded a large piece of MDF and Hardboard on to the router and clamped it down (sorry no pictures of the actual cutting process) and cut it out! :) Not too bad for my second piece of this machine!

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