Notes on ongoing projects — builds, experiments, and things I'm learning.
I finished my laser cutter this past week, and have been cutting and testing all sorts of things. Overall I’m pretty impressed with the buildyoucnc.com machine and support.
Alignment
Alignment is the scary part if you read the instructions on buildyourcnc. I happen to have a laser pointer th...
Progress has gone pretty fast on my new laser cutter. I have put the moving gantry on the frame, and put the frame on a wheeled cart that I made for it. Assembly has been fairly simple, I did run into a problem with the x-axis motor mount. 
The nut inserts are sticking out because the wood piece h...
Create More, Consume Less! Life is too short to waste on the latest crappy blockbuster. Be creative, make something and share it with the world.
Just laid out my parts for the Blacktooth. Freekin’ lazers!
As a photographer in the post-industrial age of darkroom equipment sometimes you have to take a problem into your own hands. That was the case last weekend when I finally had it with my two Beseler enlarger heads. My condenser head is too weak to do 16×20 prints, and I hate how it picks up dust and...
First print on my reprap Mendel Prusa!