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Just curious on this one,

I'm always up for designing a rig on my laser cutter and making odds and sods for the cameras (Fibre glass brackets for camera gimbals etc)

I've just bought a larger house which we move into in 6 weeks and one of the perks is a large external garage building which I'll be converting into my office for clients + being a small on site studio as we currently use our back bedroom for portraits etc.
Just thought it might be a nice idea to have a section for guys who can post up various DIY projects that are photography related?
 
Steve, that's brilliant!

Soo far I've used the laser for building planes and custom parts for hexacopters etc, I would love to buy a CNC router so I could use carbon (Laser will only cut fibreglass due to burn temps if anyone has no experience etc)
The Laser unit (bought by a brit company called HPC) is now in storage while we sort out the move, need to sort out where it will be installed in the new garage as it's two buildings in one!
Will probably do a DIY thread on the internal construction etc to keep people entertained!
 
Our CNC router is a double head Excellon with two 600 x 450mm beds intended for drilling and routing printed circuit boards. It's a bit big for home use so I am using it to make the parts for my own desk top CNC with a smaller 300 x 450 bed.

I have the stepper motors and linear slides and the motor drivers and software are all sortd out so I just need to get on with cutting some material to build it.


Steve.
 
I had one of those similar ideas, use the Laser to cut MDF / possibly Acrylic sheet to create the jig setup and then buy the drivers etc, will you be using Mach3?
 
No. LinuxCNC

It is the best documented piece of software I have ever seen.

It was written by the US national standards institute as a simple programme to control movement but someone obviously went mad and continued writing it until it was a great piece of CNC software.

And the best thing about it - as it was written by a US government department, it is automatically public domain - and free!

LinuxCNC is a software system for computer control of machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, cutting machines, robots, hexapods, etc.

LinuxCNC is Free software released under the terms of the GNU GPLv2 (General Public License version 2).

LinuxCNC is a descendent of the original NIST Enhanced Machine Controller software, which is in the Public Domain.
LinuxCNC has many exciting new features and brings a lot of new functionality (a flexible and powerful Hardware Abstraction Layer that allows you to adapt it to many kinds of machinery, a software PLC controller, easier-than-ever installation, a new trajectory planner, and more.)

LinuxCNC is precompiled with Ubuntu LTS (long term support) versions for ease of installation and longevity.
Click to expand...

My PC is now dual boot Windows and Linux and is waiting in anticipation for a machine to be attached. I have already run it with a single motor connected and it seemed to turn in the right directions when progressing through the cut path so I don't think there will be any problems.

http://www.linuxcnc.org/

And it's capable of doing a lot more than I need as this video shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7cjo4kTYMw


Steve.
 
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Steve, I'll have to look into this as it's another tool I need for modelling stuff :)
 
Nice work Steve. Cool project :thumbs:
 
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