I can’t seem to get off this subject of computers. The weekend was spent on the usual chores like grass cutting. I busted up my foot pretty well last weekend when I slipped on the floor in the kitchen. It looks like I broke a couple of toes and who knows what inside my foot. In any case the foot has been sore so the grass cutting was about as physical as I needed to...
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Tessa’s 1st Year Present
I made my granddaughter’s first year birthday present. You can see it here in the picture. It is one of the first projects to be totally finished after being carved on my home made HB2, 3-D router. I thought about making this when she was first born, a year ago. But the HB2 was still in the design stages. I did think at the time this was the sort of thing that would be perfect...
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Over the weekend I got the HB2 Router into a full production run on a carving for the first time. At last it is a living breathing (well not exactly) machine. It has been a long time getting to this point but the results were well worth the effort. I think the machine itself is a mechanical wonder just looking at it. I chose a very detailed and difficult design to be the first run...
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I was able to fire up the HB2 CNC router under its own power today. All I had to do was the tedious task of making up the motor cables. When that was done (actually when the first one was done) I was able to turn on the new power supply and get the steppers to run, just one at first. You have to be a scratch builder to appreciate that very first “come alive”...
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