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We once enlisted a contractor to cut a plywood circle for a cat condo we were building. Now we're embarrassed that we couldn't come up with a solution as eloquent and easy to use as this circle cutting router jig which [Grays42] built. He's using a small trim router for the job. The jig is made up of two thick-walled pieces of PVC pipe. We don't think the router is attached to jig. Instead you … [Read more...]
While wandering around the aisles of his local electronics store this Westinghouse USB charging station caught [James'] eye. He sized it up and realized it would make the perfect enclosure for a small WiFi router. And so began his project to turn a TP-Link TL-WR703N into a DIY Pwn Plug. The basic idea is to include hidden capabilities in an otherwise normal-looking device. For instance, take a … [Read more...]
Quit struggling with hastily patched together electronics for your light painting images. Follow [Madox's] example and build a light painting wand designed with your hand in mind. You wield it much like a sword, but the only damage it does is to the long-exposure camera pointed its way. The RGB LED strip is controlled by the guts of a tiny little wireless router, a TP-Link TL-WR703N. This lets … [Read more...]
Maker Faire NY is awash with new and interesting computer controlled tools, but the most unusual so far appears to be Popfab, a combination router, 3D printer, and vinyl cutter able to collapse down into a suitcase. Popfab is the brainchild of [Nadya Peek] and [Ilan Moyer] of the MIT CADLAB. With interchangeable heads for routing PCBs, 3D printing, and vinyl cutting. A conventional machine of … [Read more...]
Hackaday alumni [Will O'Brien] sent in a few projects he's been working on lately while he's in the process of upgrading his workspace. He's building a 1200 x 1200 mm CNC router based on the Shapeoko router, and it sure looks like he's having fun doing it. The Shapeoko router is based on the Makerslide open source linear bearing system. This system uses common aluminum extrusions as the frame … [Read more...]
Fresh from this year's SIGGRAPH is a very interesting take on the traditional X Y-table based CNC machine from [Alec], [Ilan] and [Frédo] at MIT. They created a computer-controlled CNC router that is theoretically unlimited in size. Instead of a gantry, this router uses a human to move the tool over the work piece and only makes fine corrections to the tool path with the help of a camera and … [Read more...]
Even though the Roland MDX-20 CNC mill fetched a pretty penny when it was first made available 12 years ago, there were a few features that made any builder lucky enough to own one scratch their head. The only way for a computer to communicate with this mill was through an RS-232 connection, and instead of a normal control protocol such as GCode, the Roland mill uses a very proprietary software … [Read more...]
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