Now with Haas TM2P
This year I had a huge opportunity to knock out some projects for the burn!
Usually I’m burried in startup work and just barely scrape away to go do that thing in the desert. This year I got a break right before and had a few weeks to really knock out art, and quality of life enhancements. I also planned a Tiki party the weekend before departure, so I was a bit stacked in the lead up to hitting the road.
I worked on two main projects for this year: Trailer upgrades and the Space Goats Sign.
Now that the cube is done, I’m resurrecting an old project. I’ve finally got enough stuff out in the garage to prototype my way out of an aluminium box. You can read the original arm writeups over on Hackaday.io for more detail, but In a nutshell it’s a really big, really fast, really accurate polar plotter arm
Continue reading “Oberth Arm: Don’t skip arm day, the plotter.”
Last week in making Swarf I covered moving this lil Haas TM2P into my garage and getting it placed, as well as some machine shop basics. This week I’ll go over the extensive process of getting power and air to it, getting it setup, and loading it up with coolant.
Continue reading “Making Swarf #2- A series of tubes: plugging in a CNC Mill”
How to cram a CNC shop in your garage from xSpacex engineer @risknc (plus, a Corgi)
Continue reading “Making Swarf #1- My first CNC Mill: Haas TM2P”