Category: CNC

Arduino Smart Finger Jointer

Today is a bug hunting day. First of all I realized that for some reason the displacement wasn’t right: for a given 5 millimeters displacement from the code I had 3.8 mills on the gantry. I am not sure of the reason but I believe it could be related to the pitch of the threaded…

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Smart Finger Joint

Some time ago I would have said to be lucky to have time to spend in my garage. Sadly this is not the case as this corona virus has locked down us all and caused a lot of deaths already. Many people will loose their jobs, but hopefully everything will be fixed some day. My…

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Arduino Smart Finger Jointer #4

Today I’ve tried to mount my 3D printed involute teeth gears to see how do they work. Unfortunately the hole of the pinion was too tight for the step motor shaft and I had to drill it on the drill press but didn’t got a centered hole therefore is a bit wobbly and noisy. But…

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Arduino Finger Joint

Why engineers tend to be so complicated or to over complicate simple things? Well I don’t know honestly.. it is what it is… Yesterday, after some tests of my Arduino code for the automatic finger jointer, I thought that it’s time to move a bit forward the design thing. The frame of this jig isn’t…

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Arduino Box Jointer: one step forward

Today is the day of improvements. I finally had the chance to merge two different programs I’ve made for the LCD and stepper motor with my Arduino. Have a look at the video and if you want there’s the link to my GitHub page where you can find the Arduino code. Otherwise you can have…

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FEATHERBOARD for BOSCH PTS10 table saw

3D printing is really awesome! With probably 1 euro of filament I just printed out a featherboard customized for my BOSCH PTS10 table saw. The set of print files (that by the way you can find on my Thingiverse page) includes the featherboard itself and the locking guide for the PTS10. Here is the link:…

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ZERO PLAY GUIDE for BOSCH PTS10 (FINAL VERSION)

There you go, finally done. Everything looks good and works as it should. I printed it out with PLA plus from SUNLU. You can find the link here to download the print file .STL. I just printed out 4 couples! Stay tuned Max

Arduino Nema23 TB6560 Homing

Finally some updates and some quite good results. Here is my new mock-up for the finger jointer. I posted a video on YouTube and will post the code soon. Watch the video Stay tuned Max