Category: Shapeoko 2
Bicycle tags
When I was a kid, bikes used to have tags. They were small and colorful, and were made out of stamped sheet metal. Much like a car’s license plate nowadays. I don’t know for sure what they... Read MoreWedding gift – inlay cutting board
A colleague of mine had her wedding last week. I always try to make a personalised gift instead of just buying them something or giving money. I decided to try out an inlayed cutting board. It has pro... Read MoreHouse number
Since forever, I’ve had this old cutting board leftover I didn’t have any use for, until now. I bought a new mail box recently, and I needed a nice house number for it, so obviously I mad... Read MoreBirthday card.
Nothing to say, really… Simple V-carve. But people do appreciate this kind of gesture a lot more that store-bought cards. Score!... Read MoreFEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (9) – It’s Alive!
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 – part 6 – part 7 – part 8 So I started all over again. Firstly I milled a new back cover, including a nice... Read MoreFEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (8) – Assembly
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 – part 6 – part 7 DAY 1 Now that everything works, let’s try and assemble the handheld. I took my time ... Read MoreFEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (7) – Electronics
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 – part 6 Last but certainly not least, let’s tackle the electronics. I drew up 2 PCB designs... Read MoreFEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (6) – Front cover
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 – part 5 Last week, I finished the front cover. First, I did a test cut on some scrap acrylic to test feeds & ... Read MoreFEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (5) – Back cover
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 – part 4 Progress! I’ve done a ton of work on the handheld over the past few days. I actually did mock something up in In... Read MoreFEZ – Frederico Entertainment Zystem (4) – handheld test
Previous articles: part 1 – part 2 – part 3 It’s been a while since I worked on this, but now I have some time to spare, so i’ll try and get a prototype working. It’s go... Read MoreSemi-automatic rubberband gun
I’ve been toying with a rubberband gun design I got from an Inventables forum member. The files needed some slight tweaking in order for the gun to work properly, but after a few iterations I... Read More2-sided milling in Rhino – THE EASY WAY
I’ll let the video speak for itself on this one. But in case you were wondering, the hole was not intentional, it was a zeroing mistake. Mach3 still holds a lot of secrets … The script ca... Read MoreV-carve: Aztec Sun Stone
I always like to do a V-carve when I test the performance of my machine, because it needs all three axis to work in perfect unison in order to get a decent result. But I just tuned my motors to the ma... Read MoreBamboo soap dish
One of the first things I ever tried to mill was this ‘Grunblau soap dish’ design I found by accident on the interwebs. It turned out that the project had too steep of a learning curve for... Read More2016 upgrade roundup
Here’s a summary of the whole process of upgrading my machine from a pretty much vanilla setup to the beast I have at my disposal today: 1. X-axis stiffening 2. Y-axis and more 3. Re-assembly ... Read MoreShapeoko upgrade (12) – wasteboard + closing up
Last but not least, I decided to put a new wasteboard in place. I had 2 pieces of 6 mm MDF cut to 750 x 750 mm panels. Then, cut a hole pattern in both of them that matches my threaded insert spacing.... Read MoreShapeoko upgrade (9) – Drag chain bracket
Next project on the block: making a new drag chain bracket. I actually made one ages ago mostly with hand tools, and it worked to a degree, but there definitely was some room for improvement. So here... Read MoreShapeoko upgrade (8) – Aluminium Z-plate
A new day, a new project. Today: cutting a plate for the final version of my Z-stage out of 4mm aluminium. Why have a plate and belt drive at all instead of direct drive? Well I mentioned this before:... Read MoreShapeoko upgrade (7) – New belts, pulleys and idlers
Ok, so now that I have the much more powerful 276 oz-in NEMA 23 motors driving my machine, I went on and replaced all the pulleys and idlers in order to have them accept 9mm GT3 belting. I do this... Read MoreShapeoko upgrade (6) – New motors
Phew. It’s been a while! As I mentioned earlier, I did some traveling and I also needed to do some projects around the house during summer, so there was hardly any time left to put into hobby... Read MoreLeaving on a holiday…
But I couldn’t resist showing the upgrades I have in store when I come back. 🙂... Read MoreShapeoko upgrade (5) – Z-axis
Originally, I was going to start using my Shapeoko again for other projects after having completed the last batch of upgrades. But for some reason I got it in my head to order some more parts and kee... Read MoreShapeoko upgrade (3) – Re-assembly and troubleshooting
Final day of my Shapeoko rebuild. Once again, I did a lot of small modifications and corrections. First of all, I took out the locked up bearing I noticed the other day, and pried off the shielding. ... Read MoreShapeoko upgrade (2) – Y-axis and more
Today I proceeded with the Shapeoko upgrade. Nothing massive, but a lot of small things that took some time anyhow. I checked, and where necessary, fastened all screws/bolts. I flattened all of the ... Read More- 2 of 3
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