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Category Archives: Tools
Replacing CNC Router Project
I’ve been using my CNC router pretty steadily since I first made it about 2 1/2 years ago and while it’s been quite useful and productive, the old DIY version has a few ‘idiosyncrasies’ that I wanted to address. The more severe of these issues were: With the main Y … Continue reading
Hacking a toaster oven into a reflow solder station!
As I’ve moved into smaller and smaller electronic devices in my projects (and gotten older) I find that I can no longer reliably solder some of the components to the printed circuit board by hand. I discovered that others had used toaster ovens for reflow soldering (Wikipedia link) where the … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
New Year’s Day? Pshaw! It’s just another day at the ‘office’! Here’s my current ‘activity’ as I’m simultaneously debugging code on 4 different processors, 3 of which have radios that are communicating with each other and one is our home server containing our webserver and MySQL database (where all the … Continue reading
New additions to the CNC Router
Air Jets After doing the Pottery Logo project, I realized that I need to have air jets to both cool the router bit and clear away chips. With plastic especially, but even with wood, the chips, if not cleared, will collect in the channels and create friction, and, eventually, burn … Continue reading