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...
Continue reading...HB2 Lives!
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”...
Continue reading...PS2 Power Supply is HOT
I was able to fire up the HB2 (dubbed the PS2 in title) power supply and get a DC voltage reading. For the pictures visit http://thmsblog.tedatum.com/?p=776 . Electronically this power supply / CNC controller is almost exactly the same as the firsts one I built. The HobbyCNC controller is a newer version but all the rest is the same. This one sports a new and smaller cabinet to house all the circuitry and I am using...
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