Archive for November, 2010

It’s alive!

Monday, November 1st, 2010

My HobbyCNC Pro kit arrived the other day and several evenings later I had the steppers moving. My son (age 3) and I enjoyed watching the steppers move on the workbench as EMC thought it cut out the standard test image. I also made more progress on the CNC machine build. In spite of several layout errors I have the X and Y axis pretty much assembled. The X axis is mostly dialed in but there is a bit of slack in the end bearing. These bearings may end up getting replaced if I can not eliminate enough play. Sadly I broke a tap while fabricating my stepper coupler so I did not achieve CNC movement as hoped this weekend.