Milling Gifts with the Shapeoko I made Mother’s Day gifts using my Shapeoko 2 CNC router. The first gift was a simple relief carving of a nautilus into stained Baltic birch. The second gift was a profile of my daughter cut from stained Baltic birch as well. I’ll detail that in a separate post. Prep […]
Read More →First Collaborative Shapeoko Milling Job
My first collaborative Shapeoko milling job was cutting gears out of 8mm HDPE, more commonly known as cutting board. Running someone else’s gcode was a new experience. My workflow to date with the Shapeoko has been vector files in Inkscape and generating gcode in makercam.com. I did several iterations back and forth with Nathan generating gcode and […]
Read More →Getting Started with Arduino Touchscreen
Arduino touchscreen projects are simple to get started using the touch shield from Seeeduino. I picked up a shield as part of some kit bought from a friend. The SeeedStudio TFT TouchShield I’m using is a v1 model that has already been deprecated. However, the wiki page has enough info and links to get up and […]
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