Clem's CNC Control Project

When you have to abandon a project? When is it worth pushing on? The sunken cost fallacy at work.

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When you have to abandon a project? When is it worth pushing on? The sunken cost fallacy at work. Over the past 12 months I tried to turn a pile of random parts into a working 4 axis CNC machine. You have seen me deal with a ton of wiring, control c...
- 25 Jun 2023
Cursed connectors, why is there no middle ground option?

mayermakes

My original plan for this months blog was to build the side panels for my machine, but during measuring the sides I thought more about the challenges of routing the cables and encountered a few possible issues with shaping the panels. A painfull acci...
- 24 May 2023
Configuring a 3d printer Firmware for a 4 Axis CNC - RepRap Firmware

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When you try to use a 3d printing specific mainboard for a non-3d printer you face a special set of configuration requirements, so I go over my experience with setting up reprapfirmware on duet2 for a cnc as I hope this helps in your config planning ...
- 26 Apr 2023
Embedded Systems and the future of CNC-like Machines

mayermakes

Very recently I’ve been to Embedded World, a trade show in Nuremberg Germany that is focused on embedded systems (as the name implies). What does that have to do with my CNC project? A lot. I don´t actually need a CNC for producing parts ...
- 21 Mar 2023
Let me untangle my Spaghetti – Clem’s Numerical control

mayermakes

As teased in the previous blog entry, the dreaded wiring of the control box insides is my next task. Can there be any more infuriating than cutting crimping and soldering a massive amount of wires. Well there can if you are a leftie and have to rely ...
- 15 Feb 2023
Full Frontal Faceplate

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The Face of each big industrial equipment is its control panel or face plate, however you would like to call it. This entry of my CNC Blog will focus on that instead of making huge wiring progress, because I think it is: A more interesting than you m...
- 24 Jan 2023
Sooooo many wires - Clem's numerical control

mayermakes

I was a bit unsure if I want to first finish motor mounting or do the tedious mounting and wiring part in the electronics enclosure. But the weather took over that decision, because I will use Engineering Resin to 3d print most mounting parts, I need...
- 16 Dec 2022
The e14 Community has Spoken & the Wonders of Open Source Hardware

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The community has spoken.In the last Blog post I've asked you about the positioning of the electronics cabinet. And by far the most popular choice was to put it above the whole machine where no splinter, chip or Dash of coolant can go.So i took that ...
- 22 Nov 2022
Mounting the Axis - Clem's numerical control

mayermakes

We have talked about electronics and ideas around my cnc project, but its time to get stuff together in an orderly fashion to form the shape of a CNC mill instead of a pile of parts.My overall concept for the kinematic arrangement is revolving around...
- 22 Oct 2022
Clem's Numerical control -Candy shopping at Trinamic

mayermakes

This time we are going on a candy shop tour through trinamics homepage.Since I got requests to explain how I select motors and drivers instead of just recommending good ones, I'll take you with me on the journey of ruling out driversjust by looking a...
- 18 Sep 2022
Clems numerical control - Sorting the pile and Questions for the community

mayermakes

Inspecting what parts are in stock and some basic decisions. Most of the structural parts that make up my CNC project came from the prototype of an industrial 3d printer that I worked on a few years ago. The belt driven linear rails by CCM will sure...
- 11 Aug 2022
Clem‘s numerical control – or how I learned to dig through a pile of parts. Introducing the project.

mayermakes

Next I‘m Clem , you may know me as one of the hosts of element14 presents. What you may not know, is that for the longest time a project has been lingering in the background of my videos. It is a CNC mil...
- 3 Aug 2022