For once in my life I was not in a hurry to get this done.
I think I started printing and buying parts some time in May of this year. I finally have things working pretty well and wanted to share.
I can’t say thank you enough to Ryan for this great machine and to the rest of the forum for the great ideas.
Hopefully I can be helpful to others as well.
This is actually the 2nd MPCNC for me. The first one was one patch after another. Once the 25.4 mm J-version was released, I knew I had to make a new machine.
Some of my goals were to:
make the machine very attractive
use button head screws and flat head furniture nuts instead of normal hardware
do an excellent job with wire management
de-clutter by mounting the x-y endstops on the center section
buy an actual DW660 for the spindle and use a superpid.com speed controller
use terminal strips and aviation connectors for the wiring across the board
make the electronics mounting as clean as I could
All the parts are printed on a Prusa i3 MK2 (fantastic printer) using WYZ Worx Fluorescent Orange or White PLA
I used a 0.2mm layer height (remember, I wasn’t in a hurry)
The controller is a mini RAMBo that I bought from the shop ran from a RasPi3.
Hopefully this group will enjoy what I’ve done and I can help others along the way.
Fantastic build, love the hardware. Have you had any time to play with the IR sensor yet? I have used the aircraft connectors as well, I just hope I never fly in a plane that use them!
It is mounted on a bracket that can be snapped on to the z-axis 25.4mm vertical tubing and adjusted according to however long the cutting tool (or a certain height above a laser) is.
I don’t use it for machine control…mainly just playing around at this point.
I do intend to use the mesh bed levelling and the IR probe the establish how out of level the table is.
In case you didn’t know, I purchased this one from filastruder.com
Just a remark, it seems pretty high, so if I were you I would try to find a way to attach the frame to the wall, this way it wouldn’t wobble at all.
I like the endstops position, the screws you used look nice and I think that hanging the electronics on the wall is a pretty good idea, it makes the thing very accessible.
One thing really worries me though: it is way too clean, you need to get this thing filthy with dust ASAP!
