My Shapeoko 3 Is On The Way!
In other “I have too many hobbies” news, my Shapeoko 3 has shipped and will arrive on Wednesday! Exciting!
Category: Shapeoko Mill
Assembling a Dust Deputy
The Oneida Dust Deputy is a small molded plastic cyclone-style dust separator for use with a shop vac. They claim it removes 99% of the dust from the vacuum flo...
Possible New Z Axis Design for the ShapeOko
I’ve been thinking about how to upgrade the Z Axis on my ShapeOko for a while now and I finally started drawing up some stuff in Inventor. As a side note,...
Mechanical Limit Switches for the ShapeOko
So in this post – Limit Switches for the ShapeOko – I installed some optical switches as limit switches. They were working pretty well until I did a...
Ferrules and New Belts for the ShapeOko
Yes, more mods and accuracy calibration for my ShapeOko mill. There was a discussion on the forum about how it was a bad idea to tin the ends of wires when they...
3DMG Props – Complete!
I know there have not been any more updates about building these, but it’s because we had a tight deadline and were working hard. But I’m happy to s...
Team ShapeOko!
Check it out – I’m officially a member of Team ShapeOko now. I guess that’s what happens when you volunteer to host the website, wiki and foru...
3DMG Props – Progress Report – 3/13
Over the past few days we have done the following: Made the nozzle – I just grabbed a piece of 3/4″ pine, drew a shape that looked good, cut it out ...
Making 3DMG Props – The Beginning
What the heck is 3DMG you may ask? 3DMG stands for 3-Dimensional Maneuver Gear. Still in the dark? Both of my daughters are into Cosplay. What is Cosplay? Accor...
A Quick Laptop Stand
My co-workers were ribbing me about using two reams of paper to raise my laptop on my desk, so I decided to make a quick stand out of some 1/4″ plywood. I...