Forgive me forum for I have sinned. It has been 10 months since my last CNC project.
My wife and I sold our house in November, and now live in a 2 bedroom Apt, with a 2 car garage…err…no cars in the garage. The market wanted us to sell, and we have longer term plans to move out of the country in a couple of years, so it had to be done.
Aaaaaanyway, I finally got some inspiration from a new video game I’ve been playing and decided to make some edge-lit signs.
I designed and printed the base, which will ultimately hold a buck converter, ESP-01, and a strip of 7 WS2812B LEDS. The ESP is running WLED which is a great project BTW. I’ll probably just hot-glue everything into the base. The acrylic is 6mm thick (sold to me as 1/4") and the whole pane measures 150mm wide by 200mm tall, with 20mm stuck in the base.
Cuts were made with some crazy camfering bit, I had laying around on the Aegis, and then I decided the detail I wanted was too small, so I bought a pack of .5mm ball-nose bits before cutting the Anvil logo. 1200mm/min XY, 300mm/min Z. It looks like the bit kicked/chipped out a little at the start of each path, so the next ones will have a slower plunge, with a 45 degree lead-in. I think that should keep it clean.
More on the way. That’s all I got for now.