Plans, projects and How-to's for Home Machinists and Other Makers
I spend about half of my time writing CAM software, and the other half doing product development for a bunch of companies. Usually my prototypes are one-off, sometimes I have to make lots of them. I happen to be in the middle of just such a project- I need to make about 50 of these:
Luckily, they’re not very big, only the size of a dime.… Read the rest
I’ve started building a CNC router from plans. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time now but I couldn’t decide how big a router to build or who had the best design. … Read the rest
I wonder if we’ll be able to buy an affordable hobbyist version of one of these machines in 10 years?
StickFont v1.1 is a free Windows program you can use to create single-stroke text for engraving. It’s very similar to another free program we’ve written about called DeskEngrave. Both programs will take a line of text and generate the g-code you’ll need to engrave it using a CNC mill, router or similar machine.… Read the rest
