Clem's CNC Control Project

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

mayermakes — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:37:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Cursed connectors, why is there no middle ground option?

mayermakes — Wed, 24 May 2023 11:40:05 GMT

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...(read more)

Configuring a 3d printer Firmware for a 4 Axis CNC - RepRap Firmware

mayermakes — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:21:20 GMT

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 ...(read more)

Embedded Systems and the future of CNC-like Machines

mayermakes — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:38:03 GMT

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 ...(read more)

Let me untangle my Spaghetti – Clem’s Numerical control

mayermakes — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:19:30 GMT

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 ...(read more)

Full Frontal Faceplate

mayermakes — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:40:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Sooooo many wires - Clem's numerical control

mayermakes — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:50:11 GMT

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...(read more)

The e14 Community has Spoken & the Wonders of Open Source Hardware

mayermakes — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:07:43 GMT

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 ...(read more)

Mounting the Axis - Clem's numerical control

mayermakes — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:54:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Clem's Numerical control -Candy shopping at Trinamic

mayermakes — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:32:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Clems numerical control - Sorting the pile and Questions for the community

mayermakes — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:57:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Clem‘s numerical control – or how I learned to dig through a pile of parts. Introducing the project.

mayermakes — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 09:49:00 GMT

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...(read more)