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Home made spot welder
Over the past few weeks I've been building a spot welder. A rather simple, brute force device that fuses couple thin sheets of metal together by pumping a tonne of current. We're talking 1,000 Amps of...
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Blogging on the mill (treadmill this time)
Latest winter project - a laptop stand for the treadmill.A simple frame of 2 vertical beams made from 1/8" x 1" aluminum flatbar, joined horizontally by 1/16" x 3/4" aluminum angle bars which was then...
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Nortel QxBIXxxx stuff for sale
Cleaning up the shop, I came across a small assortment of BIX tools and accessories.They are currently listed on eBay.
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Little CNC Z-axis
I am trying to rebuild a better Z-Axis for the smaller CNC machine. My requirements are:Increased travel. The current axis has 3/4" of travel, which limits both the depth of cuts, the size of the...
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Installing the Little CNC Z-Axis
The new axis is complete, installed and tested - yeah!Where did I leave off, oh yeah, the spindle mount and linear bearings where built. Next step was to add the actuator to the assembly.Using some...
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Moving faster!
Alright - now we're cooking! This video is my little machine leveling the table at 75IPM. It is a bit bouncy when starting/stopping along the X axis, but otherwise, doing very well!This weekend I...
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Vacuum holding table - pocket milling
(I love how smooth this table ended up - that shows me that my bit is square to the machine. Had the bit not been square, it would have created "steps" or grooves from the lower part of the scribed...
View ArticleSamsung CLP-310 Usage review
I have had this printer for almost 4 years now. I have 2 kids in middle / high school who use it for homework, etc. Below is a running total cost of ownership. This printer has been very reliable, but...
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Troubleshooting a (cheap) sonar unit
One of my silly dream projects is a steampunkish range finder. The key part is a sonar unit. There's lots out there - I found an HC-SR04 on eBay for $2 shipped! I couldn't go wrong (or so I...
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MPXV5004G Breakout board
A small project to practice milling PCB boards. This board holds a MPXV5004G pressure sensor. It will eventually be part of my furnace monitor - it will detect the pressure (vacuum) in the fan housing...
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Make Intertoobs worky
Router's / modem's / ISP connections tend to need a kick once in a while. Here's my setup to give my gear a kick when my server can no long ping a site (google.com).The circuit is pretty basic. An...
View ArticleLights! (camera) Action! Sampling of my latest projects
I'm really slacking off. I have been somewhat active on Google+, put a couple photos on Facebook. But nothing here since July 1st, 2013 - wow. Ok - here are the projects on the go. In no particular...
View ArticleMeta-meta-meta-project
Meta-meta-meta projects. (or how I spent my evening...)I was going to build a multi-LED (light) status indicator. I scavenged a bunch of surface mount LEDs from an old server, and then needed to sort...
View ArticleRestore Zippo Ziplight Lighter Flashlight
My dad has a special Zippo flashlight from his company's 50th anniversary. It stopped working a while ago, and after contacting Zippo, found out the Ziplights have been discontinued.With nothing left...
View ArticleBuilding my little Simple - 2014 in review
So in 2014 my distraction de jour turned to 3D printing. Printers were over $1000, however, after building up my own CNC machine, the only real difference between a CNC & printer is an extruder...
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