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May 16

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May 01

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Apr 25

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Apr 23

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Apr 16

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Apr 12

In line with yesterday’s post, here is the beast of a motor that will drive the X-axis of the new CNC router. This is a NEMA 34 frame stepper motor with 1288 ounce-inches of holding torque. To give you a better idea of what that means, if you attached a foot long bar to the motor’s shaft, it could hold a 6.7lb weight in place on it. That may not sound like much, but torque is a weird unit to get a grasp of, and it is also going through a gear reduction on the machine, so in the end it is quite a lot of force!

In line with yesterday’s post, here is the beast of a motor that will drive the X-axis of the new CNC router. This is a NEMA 34 frame stepper motor with 1288 ounce-inches of holding torque. To give you a better idea of what that means, if you attached a foot long bar to the motor’s shaft, it could hold a 6.7lb weight in place on it. That may not sound like much, but torque is a weird unit to get a grasp of, and it is also going through a gear reduction on the machine, so in the end it is quite a lot of force!

Apr 11

Slowly, but surely, this machine is coming together. This is the basic frame of the new CNC router we are building. In its former life it was a CNC plasma cutter, but it is destined for greater things.

Slowly, but surely, this machine is coming together. This is the basic frame of the new CNC router we are building. In its former life it was a CNC plasma cutter, but it is destined for greater things.

Apr 05

The latest and greatest SOBI boards are about to go under test!

The latest and greatest SOBI boards are about to go under test!

Feb 06

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Feb 01

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Jan 25

This is a test… Each LED cluster is tested just after being soldered to ensure a good connection, proper installation and of course that they work. I’d explain more but I’m not allowed to and don’t have the time. Lots more clusters to make!!!

This is a test…

Each LED cluster is tested just after being soldered to ensure a good connection, proper installation and of course that they work. I’d explain more but I’m not allowed to and don’t have the time. Lots more clusters to make!!!

Jan 24

LED’s everywhere! Lots of tiny clusters to be built. Behind the soldering iron is pile of a few THOUSAND LED’s to be assembled into a mysterious, functional project for one of our great clients. We can’t wait ‘till it’s all done and we can share the full scope of this one!

LED’s everywhere!

Lots of tiny clusters to be built. Behind the soldering iron is pile of a few THOUSAND LED’s to be assembled into a mysterious, functional project for one of our great clients. We can’t wait ‘till it’s all done and we can share the full scope of this one!

Jan 18

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Jan 13

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Jan 10

Here’s the whole soldering jig for the big Studio1Thousand project, finally! Sometimes it seems easier to just cobble things together, or do things the shady way. When it gets to the point where you have to do something over and over, thousands of times, you have to make fixtures or jigs to help you get it done. It’s not only important to help you do the work more quickly, but also to help ensure that errors are reduced to an acceptable level. You really don’t want to get 1,000 pieces into a manufacturing run, only to find out that one person has been doing their work in a slightly different way than everyone else… Again, can’t exactly tell you what these are for yet, but we will definitely post up some photos when the project is public!

Here’s the whole soldering jig for the big Studio1Thousand project, finally!

Sometimes it seems easier to just cobble things together, or do things the shady way. When it gets to the point where you have to do something over and over, thousands of times, you have to make fixtures or jigs to help you get it done. It’s not only important to help you do the work more quickly, but also to help ensure that errors are reduced to an acceptable level. You really don’t want to get 1,000 pieces into a manufacturing run, only to find out that one person has been doing their work in a slightly different way than everyone else…

Again, can’t exactly tell you what these are for yet, but we will definitely post up some photos when the project is public!