Cool, Jake, Thanks for the support! And I can surely make a box for transport this CNC Machine. <div>I'm hacking on this PCB making problem at After I/O Hackathon right now, at Mashery Inc. I'll test out what ever result I got after this hackathon ends. Anybody who's interested on the topic, feel free to contact me!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Jake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jake@spaz.org" target="_blank">jake@spaz.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hao, I am very inspired by your work on PCB milling.<br>
<br>
I can supply a laptop with a built-in parallel port for this purpose,<br>
but we should build a wooden box for the CNC machine so it can transport safely.<div class="im"><br>
<br>
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Hao wrote:<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
Guys, I've been working on making fine PCBs with this CNC these days, and<br></div>
haven't check mails as often. Sorry for that.However, it's really nice to<div><div class="h5"><br>
see you guys discuss this topic. I would give up the idea of using simple<br>
USB-parallel converter to control a CNC machine, though. <br>
<br>
Bandit, thanks for the offer, and we can discuss this further when we met in<br>
person next time. Last talk with you was a lot of fun :)<br>
<br>
Jake, as Miloh said, I want to teach people how to make PCB with CNC in<br>
toorcamp, and I'm thinking about borrowing the CNC in Noisebridge during the<br>
toorcamp, if possible. (Miloh got another table top CNC in his workspace<br>
that I might or might not be able to use, we'll see.) If I can run<br>
linuxcnc(formerly EMC2) on a laptop, that would save some space during the<br>
trip. <br>
<br>
Also, I still working on how to run linuxcnc under simulation on my laptop<br>
(Ubuntu12.04 Precise), so that I can tweak gcode without working on the<br>
slower PC that attached to MAXNC. I would appreciate any help with this.<br>
<br>
Jfoote, as Jake said, this machine is in good condition now. I wrapped<br>
the cellophane over the machine after the dust incident, Nima have also<br>
sponsored a set of collets as well as Miloh, and Jonathon Toomim have<br>
provided a 60 degree V-bit and a 45 degree V-bit. I've made a pretty good<br>
PCB (only with front gerber though, due to lacking of time) on my first try<br>
with the 60 degree V-bit. See attached jpg. Please ignore the wide track.<br>
<br>
And I just found Poul-Henning Kamp had done an amazing job in PCB milling,<br>
with hight probe. He managed to make a 1 mil track. Although his code is for<br>
the Eagle plug-in Pcb-gcode, I'm working on turning it to fit general gcode<br>
generator pcb2gcode. I'm positive on that we can make pcb boards which<br>
mounts 48+ pins smd chips with table top CNC machine. <br>
<br>
<br>
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Andy Isaacson <<a href="mailto:adi@hexapodia.org" target="_blank">adi@hexapodia.org</a>> wrote:<br>
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:17:11PM -0700, Jake wrote:<br>
> Yes, me and Jesse backed up the machine, Hao blew the dust out<br>
of it<br>
<br>
Cool, could you put the configs in git and publish them somewhere?<br>
<br>
Or send me the files (or put them on pony or something and tell me<br>
where<br>
they are) and I'll do it...<br>
<br>
-andy<br>
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