The Shapeoko Forum

yeah the design isn't the best. I was just using the image he drew up in paint and tracing it in inkscape. I suggested a bunch of interesting changes but they were vetoed; it is his part after all. I do think the engraving looked nice with the silver on black look. Luckily I was not charging for thi...

My father has recently been making lower receivers for various versions of the AR-15. One of which is the AR-10 which is a .308 caliber version of the AR-15(.223) To stay well within the law he wants to have nice professional looking serial numbers which were beyond his ability on the Manual mill. S...

What happened to the 3D carving lecture that was supposed to be led by Zack Kaplan on Saturday? They had us wait 15 minutes only to tell us that it was canceled. I was really disappointed in the lack of CNC milling stuff there. There were 500 different 3D printers and just a few routers - and zero ...

You killed the GRBL shield. I did something similar, and got exactly the same result. There is a short somewhere on the board and the powersupply is shutting down to protect it self then auto resetting.

I have been playing with PathCam, it is nice but I dislike my inability to fine tune the path parameters. For example, Finishing passes. I am working on a part where surface finish is not important but for subsequent tooling procedures, it is important that I have a single perimeter path. I would li...

Look for a material called Garolite. I am not sure if it is exactly what you want, but it will probably be close enough and probably easier to find.