Reroute the Power!
After rushing online to buy a new CNC controller I spent a few moment ‘inspecting’ the board, well more like reflecting on how stupid I […]
Month: February 2018
Zap, Crackle, Pop!
The new motor coupler arrived which I attached and wired back up just the x and y axis motors, hit the power switch there was […]
Broke again!
Whilst I waited for my couplers to arrive I started putting the x-axis back together but my MDF motor mount disintermediated. I built a new […]
Building The Business
I have my first interested party in using the machine to cut circuit boards for a side business that he has. Amazing what a bit […]
Motor Wibble Wobble
After dismantled the axis and checked the lead-screw for damage, it was dead straight? I checked the motor and sent a current through to set […]
Tunning the Stepper Motor Drivers
Issue solved I hooked up the Arduino with the CNC v3 board attached the motors and used the 12v voltage from my home made lab […]
The Clone Can’t be Recognised?
So this is where I encountered the first problem, the Arduino Nano would not respond to the laptop when connected and worse still it didn’t […]
Work so far
The x axis is now more or less completed with the motor, lead-screw and the nut that will move the whole z-axis back and forth. […]