I have yet to find a decent 9 Volt battery holder. So I’ve just designed it into the internal structure of my latest robot.
A bunch of CNC’d aluminum plates held together by standoffs. The battery sits in a cutout and a set screw holds it in place from the bottom. More to come.
My latest Milling Time article is up on Tested. I reviewed the Roland MDX-540 4 axis we have at ITP.
My second Milling Time article is up on Tested. This go around, the Shapeoko.
My first CNC milling article is up on Tested. I love what they’re doing over at Tested, very honored to be a small part of it.
Stay tuned for more CNC articles coming soon.
I’ve been putting this little guy through its paces. Figured I’d go right to aluminum. So far so good.
My friend Matt Epler and I were experimenting with drawing on the ITP CNC router. We chucked up a marker and had it plot some simple shapes. We basically were using a $20,000 machine to draw circles. Hopefully more interesting drawings to come.
A little tip, keep the spindle off when doing this. Unless you want the Sharpie to explode.
A spoil board is sacrificial material that’s used underneath the material you want to cut on a CNC machine. This ensures a better through cut and is usually MDF. I’ve noticed that when the spoil boards are all used up at ITP, some really amazing patterns are formed.
I cut a bunch of them into tiles, lit, and framed them. They let me hang them over the CNC in the shop. I like how they turned out.
