Tue
Jan
01
2008
My Experience with CNC
There are few things that I enjoy more than working on CNC machines! There is something about precision, repeatability and automation that really gets my creative juices flowing. Like pretty much every hobby of mine, CNC for me started with a Google search. I was cruising the internet trying to find some gift idea to make my wife for Christmas and ran across some plans for a wooden clock. I thought that was really neat, but the thought of cutting out all those gears by hand really was a turn off. My dad who is an engineer at Hewlett Packard, had told me at one point about these machines that were able to cut things out based on computer input. So, I went searching for an “XYZ cutting machine.” As soon as I stumbled across the keyword CNC I was hooked. That is what started it all!
The History
My design experience led me through three basic models:
- Wood Prototype
- Aluminum Frame Prototype (scrapped halfway through)
- Final Steel Frame Solution
The three designs will be documented on this site.
