new pendant case

http://cnc.rs/mechmate/newpendant.jpg

still have to mount the MPG and joystick as well as 20x4 lcd

Looking great...will they be on sale soon ?;)

I have not thought about manufacturing them yet. But if I get to make a mold for the back case nothing is impossible. For now its 50mm foam with acrylic 3mm faceplate but very rigid and immune to falls and hits.

Anyone interested in dwg, dxf and aspire file can send me his email.

Get it working, and I might be in line to buy one.

Sweet.... Write me up for one to.:)

Hey the new pink is nicee :)

this new have screen? is wireless?

Its using Pokeys55 with mach plugin. Nice device but it really helps to have knowledge in mach3 brains. So its a USB device, some days ago they released Ethernet version.
It will have a 4 lines with 20 characters LCD ( 4x20 hd44780 ), basically it has all the functions as ModIO board.

this is the image of 4x20 lcd that modio and pokeys can use, you can display two informations per line so its 8 data positions as I understood.
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/ind...ttach=86;image

Some more work today, 3 guitars cut (telecaster), two of the body's are oak and one is dark walnut. guitar necks are from swamp ash. will post a video of machining later.
Oak was darn hard to cut, but the winner is china spindle and mechmate.

Also made some clamps from 19mm MDF, they are absolutely FANTASTIC and work great, I will be making some fixture to host them permanently in T-track. clamps are from here
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:776

http://cnc.rs/mechmate/walnutbody.jpg
http://cnc.rs/mechmate/walnutoakbodys.jpg
http://cnc.rs/mechmate/swampash.jpg

Danilo,
That looks awesome! Can you tell us what program you did the modeling in? Cant wait to see the finished product!

rock'n roll man!

Friend of mine used Rhinoceros to model the neck and guitar body.

Nice work, we should get together...can make some music...or noise together..:D

Got my 4x20 LCD yesterday, some mach macropump programming and here it is :)

http://cnc.rs/mechmate/pokeys_lcd1.jpg

Nice job on the display, thats something else on my list to do yet.
Tim

Dog shaped piggybank :) , 50mm pine.

http://www.cnc.rs/images/stories/pos...ca/kasica1.jpghttp://www.cnc.rs/images/stories/pos...ca/kasica2.jpg
http://www.cnc.rs/images/stories/pos...ca/kasica3.jpghttp://www.cnc.rs/images/stories/pos...ca/kasica4.jpg

clamps are proving to be invaluable.

Hi Danilo

A Pointer (or maybe a retriever) and a Scotty, how very creative.
I assume you are going to put an acrylic side on them to test the young savers patience. :)

Regards
Ross

yes sides are acrylic, its prototype for organisation which is raising funds for abandoned dogs shelter.

Theater decor work, tarp ploting
 

These are some items for theater decor elements. I was also asked to cut shapes out of tarp but easy way was to use mechmate as large ploter with pen and mark the shapes to cut with scalpel, it worked very well.

Here are some pictures

Tarp:

http://cnc.rs/images/stories/poslovi/aladin/cerada.jpg


Acrylic 3mm

http://cnc.rs/images/stories/poslovi...din_dekor1.jpghttp://cnc.rs/images/stories/poslovi...din_dekor2.jpg


12mm plywood (1220 x 2400 mm)

http://cnc.rs/images/stories/poslovi...tan_dekor1.jpghttp://cnc.rs/images/stories/poslovi...tan_dekor2.jpg
http://cnc.rs/images/stories/poslovi...tan_dekor3.jpghttp://cnc.rs/images/stories/poslovi...tan_dekor4.jpg

Hey Danilo

I not see your old images.

One question about your drivers.
I see This Image about your drivers connections, and my question is:

where is the diference between PC Gruwnd, Logic Ground and Motor Ground.

Im thinking, the PC cable, 25 pins is shielded and connect between the pc and the Breakout board, this Ground is PC and connected to the ¿PC chasis?.

The Logic Ground is between Driver and Breakout Board or between Driver and Motor.
Im thinking the Motor Ground is between motor and General Ground.

Regards and good work.

old images were on my old site which is not online anymore, I can not edit older posts but will ask mike to see how can I edit links to them.

I have my BOB 12V power supply, drives logic 12V and PC's gnd together, motor power is from another source but motor gnd and drives logic gnd is connected on the drives board, so everything is tied together and share same gnd. It serves me well that way.
There are optocouplers on the drives and proper way should be to put separate power for pc & bob on one side and drives on other.

I have bought new drives guerd87 they are 2M982 7.8AMP drivers and will rewire the whole cabinet and separate everything. Problem is that mardus kreutz are unipolar and they do work perfect but give 40% less torque for same amount of current. I am sometimes pushing the machine very hard and my current is at maximum of 5 Amps for these motors, and that causes heating. As I want it to run for 8-10 hours that became problem and that is the reason for replacing the drives. They will find their place on a smaller machine which I previously built.

Got some free time so I added this little helper :)
Light is ok but the crosshair is essential.

http://cnc.rs/mechmate/spindle_light...43_640x480.jpg
http://cnc.rs/mechmate/spindle_light...44_640x480.jpg
http://cnc.rs/mechmate/spindle_light...45_640x480.jpg
http://cnc.rs/mechmate/spindle_light...47_640x480.jpg
http://cnc.rs/mechmate/spindle_light...48_640x480.jpg
http://cnc.rs/mechmate/spindle_light...49_640x480.jpg
http://cnc.rs/mechmate/spindle_light...50_640x480.jpg
http://cnc.rs/mechmate/spindle_light...51_640x480.jpg

Danilo - thats a great idea!

Danilo - where did you purchase the laser cross hairs, that looks like a great time saver!

Anthony here

yes DealExtreme is great source of that :) for 3.95 you cant beat it.

Laser is connected to the 12V with a 560 Ohm 1W resistor, it draws something about 20mA

Good idea!

Nice,

ordered myself one aswell, with a 80mm led ring and 4 plastic 3D glasses (like the carton ones with red and blue glass, but now plastic like sunglasses).
Had to pay 11 euro for it.
I really can't figure out how they do that? If I want to send a package to somewhere in my country, i need to pay 6.75. How can they send a package by plane from China to Holland, with some goods, for 11 euro and still make profit???:eek:
But nice though :D

I changed my Mardus-Kreutz (unipolar) drives with Deitech 2M982, this was a solution to prevent heating the motors if they run 6+ hours as I get more and more jobs these days. They served me well for 2 years on two machines for hobby use.
2M982 with 86HS9802 motor and setting on 5.0 Amps RMS (7.0Peak) works great and no noticable heating is noticeable while running test for few days. Power supply is still 17A 43VDC.
Also motors work much much smoother and quieter now no high pitch sounds anymore.

Hi Danilo, I understand the M982 are equip with DSP technology, they tout it as the answer to resonance. I was torn between my current driver & these DSP drivers when I build my MM, but because it is too new at the time & hence lack of feedback from users & USD 15 difference each I went with the conventional drivers. What I really interested to know is does it also reduce chatter marks?

I don't know how they work but I opened them :) and there are a lot of optocoupler's and LM339 and 393 opamps, one main chip I presume the mikro-controller has its name removed by sanding :) . If you want picture from inside, it can be arranged :D

I am very happy with drives performance, and there are almost no noticeable chatter marks. Here are pictures from cutting 42mm Ash wood. These are not so good photos I only had my phone with me. You guess it right its some more guitars, this time Stratocaster custom with SSL4 magnets.

http://www.cnc.rs/mechmate/chatter1.jpg
http://www.cnc.rs/mechmate/chatter2.jpg

Can you post some more pics of the strats? :) :)

I'm using Deitech 2M982 as well. So far so good.

No that my M860 has any problem till now.. Just couldn't resist on newer tech... :o

Here are the strats for you Heath
There are 3 bodies but two are identical, without front mask and with a cavity for pots from behind. Last one is for use with standard magnets and front mask. Job run time for one body using 8mm long endmill is 1hr including setup and flipping over after machining one side.

http://www.cnc.rs/images/stories/pos...t/DSC00419.jpg

http://www.cnc.rs/images/stories/pos...t/DSC00424.jpg

WoooooW..... What a beauty...
Is the top left of pix No2 compound curve?

I forgot to mark the line on previous 2 but I did it on the last one its the start of a slope for armrest. if thats what you asked :). The guitar makers I did this for prefer to sand it and its faster for me and for them.

http://www.cnc.rs/images/stories/pos...C00424edit.jpg

Nice! :)

Danilo, did you saw this guy guitars? they are really nice:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/musica...c_guitars.html

Also is interesting the way he makes them, some are not made from a single slab of wood, they are glued together and have internal cavities.

They should not be ever made of single wood piece, because it warps, but I do as customer wants an he likes it single piece :)

His guitars are interesting but you really got to have a name so that musicians say: "he knows what is he doing, his guitars are first class, lets but that fabulously looking guitar from him" . They are a tough crowd, everyone with different likings and to make something that could be manufactured requires lots of them around you to support.

I don't argue with paying customer too :D It is their money going to waste, not mine :D