Collaborate Disseminate
The trouble with building a business around selling low-margin widgets is that you have to find a way to make a lot of them to make it worth your while. …read more Continue reading Autofeeding CNC Lathe Cranks Out Parts All By Itself
The problem with building automated systems is that it’s hard to look at any problem and not see it in terms of possible automation solutions. Come to think of it, …read more Continue reading Adding Two Axes Makes CNC Router More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Conventional wisdom says that rigidity is the name of the game when it comes to machine tool performance. After all, there’s got to be a reason for CNC machines that …read more Continue reading Spindle Upgrade Makes PocketNC Faster and Smoother
Who says you can’t teach an old robot new tricks? Nobody, actually. That saying is about dogs. But it applies to robots too, at least judging by the way this …read more Continue reading Retired Welding Robot Picks Up Side Hustle as CNC Router
The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a cautionary cliché, but is directly contrary to several other common sayings. In the case of [Spikee]’s planned CNC machine …read more Continue reading Testing an Inexpensive CNC Spindle
An electronic leadscrew is an increasingly popular project for small and mid-sized lathes. They do away with the need to swap gears in and out to achieve the proper ratio …read more Continue reading Electronic Lead Screws – Not Just for Threading Anymore
One thing’s for sure: after seeing [Roland Van Roy] build a vertical mill from industrial scrap, we’ve got to find a better quality industrial scrapyard to hang around.
The story of this build started, as many good shop stories do, at the lathe, which in this case was also a …read more
Continue reading Vertical Mill Completes Scrapyard Lathe Build
Here at Hackaday, we pride ourselves on bringing you the freshest of hacks, preferably as soon as we find out about them. Thanks to the sheer volume of cool hacks out there, though, we do miss one occasionally, like this e-waste horizontal CNC mill that we just found out about. …read more
Continue reading Mini CNC Mill Goes Horizontal to Reuse CD Drives
When you’re operating a machine that’s powerful enough to tear a solid metal block to shards, it pays to be attentive to details. The angular momentum of the spindle of a modern CNC machine can be trouble if it gets unleashed the wrong way, which is why generations of machinists …read more
As we’ve said in the past, one of the most exciting things about the proliferation of low-cost desktop 3D printers (beyond all the little boats we get to see on Reddit), is the fact that their motion control systems are ripe for repurposing. Outfitting a cheap 3D printer with a …read more