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Friday, 4 March 2016

3040 CNC Demo

The Chilipeppr software that you can use to drive the TinyG controller comes with a demo file. Once I'd calibrated the CNC so it moved 1mm for every 1mm it was told to (instead of 4mm for every 1mm it was told to), I had a go at carving the demo. Before the recalibration I had terrible problems getting the machine to do my bidding. I don't know why I didn't realise that I needed to calibrate it, it seems silly now that I didn't. Why I thought the two bits of kit (TinyG and the router) would have worked together out of the box(es) I don't know. Anyway, here's a video of the machine carving part of the demo logo:



I've just used some masking tape to hold the workpiece down, it's fine for a quick test.

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