Sure, those handmade brackets work just fine and may also give you a sense of pride in your craftsmanship, but all those right angles and grinder marks reveal something else: your fabricating limitations.
What’s the next step then? Machining your parts at home–and don’t worry, it’s not as difficult as you might think.
In the upcoming February 2022 issue of …
Watching with interest! My grinder will thank you!
I better get the control box figured out for my desktop CNC , it been sitting 2 years !
anyone use an Arduino board for control box ?
In reply to californiamilleghia :
You can do it with an Arduino, but there are dedicated CNC boards for cheap all over the place. A breakoutboard is like $10
californiamilleghia said:I better get the control box figured out for my desktop CNC , it been sitting 2 years !
anyone use an Arduino board for control box ?
It sounds like you may need a Smoothieboard. They're kind of the CNC equivalent of an Arduino.
I really do not have a lot of use for one of these, but feel that I must get one just because. The fact that it does not require a drawing for the part is the real draw.
Are you milling steel at home, or were you angle grinding aluminum?
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