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Sorry for vanishing to anyone interested... Losing my dad and the fallout it has caused has made this the most difficult time of my life. I can't even begin to tell the story right now...
I've been trying so hard to find positive, constructive things to work towards. It feels like at every turn someone or something is beating me down, it's so exhausting. I'll never understand how people can do what they've done.
Decided to start college - work towards something positive; maybe something good.
Hey everyone. I'm trying to keep focused right now. I finally managed to release a video. It's nothing crazy, just a build video of my coffee table.
If you're interested I'd greatly appreciate you checking it out or sharing. Thank you very much.
I want to say something more... But I don't know. Tell the people you love what they mean to you. Make sure they're okay.
It actually works!!!
With the spindle wired and secured I finally got to actually try it for the first time. Steppers still aren't controlled so I moved it by hand. This was really cool!
Feeding by hand and having a really loose clamp setup I didn't want to push it too far. Still, 1/8" and 1/4" bits in wood worked well. 1/8" in aluminum seemed promising if better clamped. I even tried out a badly unbalanced cheap Dremel saw with nice results.
The junction is wired! It's about as chaotic as I imagined it would be.
That leaves only a small junction and clamp on the side of the gantry before the mechanical side is completely done!
This has been almost 5 years in the making by now... This project has gone through so much.
@SocialGaff I've said before that I use Blender for small-scale stuff or 3D-printing. Blender suffers from trying to be everything, though, imo. So trying to do real-world work can be aggravating.
More often use SketchUp 2017 (before it was browser-based with "pro" download forms). Nothing ever felt easier to me than that form factor but it's way out of date and definitely not open source.
I know there's a growing amount of alternatives but I've yet to try any. Definitely interested myself.