The Shapeoko Forum

I was building/planning my latest project, and ran into a problem - couldn't find aluminum spacers anywhere. The local big box store had 3 of the size I needed 48 of, or 9 if I wanted nylon. They're hard to find in bulk. So after a bit of searching, I stumbled across this site; thought I'd share, in...

Setting up a RPi as a controller in headless mode, you could still connect it to your home network and use VNC or something to control it through software, no LCD or fancy buttons and stuff needed. I've been very happy just plugging my laptop into the Arduino/gShield and controlling it from there. I...

xfredericox wrote:tomorrow i'll be milling this baby

Did you cut those to length before gluing them up, or what?

Okay... that's on my to-do list now... wow.

Why not use one of the steel 2x4 extrusions which are often used in the stead of lumber? The stuff that's used for drywall? The ones I've seen were all fairly thin sheet metal (formed, not extruded, and with lots of cut-outs), and quite flimsy until sandwiched between two sheets of drywall. Being C...

cvoinescu wrote:AFAIK, Altassian is a decent company, so you're not wrong going with Bitbucket.

Meh.

For this it's fine. I'm with a big enterprise customer and we're kind of regretting it.

Okay, thank you both.

As a side project, I'm considering getting a RAMPS setup working in case my gShield burns out a driver again. I see that there are some custom firmwares available to make the 5-axis RAMPS setup into a 3-axis controller more appropriate for a Shapeoko, and I'm enough of a programmer to make the few t...

The important holes are the ones around the edges - just past where the shapeoko can drill its own holes. You'll probably want a countersinking drill bit for those.

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