I got Rich! He has spent enough time with the hooligan’s to qualify as a V1’er!
I have a fully built one already, the one we used at open sauce. It just has a small beam. I will pull the beam off clean up the wires and bring it out.
I was thinking of bringing another set of Partially assembled core and side plate. Let people take a closer look, maybe feel the substantialness of them.
That is cool, it will match. I also have the autospin T1 to let you guys look at.
AWesome, thank you.
I found a local maker space myself. I have to go talk with them again. It is at the local airport, next to where my lady works. Super convenient. I put a 3d printer up for sale super cheap, happened to be a member from that makerspace. A few back and fourths later I got “Wait, you aren’t THAT Ryan are you, like LowRider MPCNC Ryan??” So I got invited to take a tour!!!
If you are up for all that I am game, I think we have the space for it. I can make the strut plates in a few sections.
Perfect. This will make it super easy to reassemble into a larger machine.
I realized when I was driving in that I’m just being silly with trying to make a full size table be full size cut; we won’t be loading full sheets on that table.
So maybe we just stack a melamine sheet on top of an OSB sheet and directly install rails and belt holders on that?
This is a really good idea. See the completed machine, but see the details and the design depth by handling the parts.
I’m really interested in seeing it up close.
Let’s make a shopping list and I’ll track to it. I might mock up a table for the sawhorses this weekend or next.
That’s awesome.
I’m still farting around with FreeCAD CAM. You keep working on a sectioned strut plate, but if we decide on a beam width I may try and use that as a test case for my FreeCAD CAM learning and either cut the plates on the ShopBot or on my garage LR4. I don’t think you necessarily need to haul the strut plates with you.
Maybe you do some design work for the strut plates with any fancy graphics you want in it and I keep working to make it. We can always fall back to sectioned plates if I fail.
I also realized we don’t have to have a small/thin pen. We could grab some larger big sharpie sized color markers and maybe make poster sized stuff on the big LR. RMRRF + V1 graphic stuff.
Okay, So far I think XY rails. Surface (is a thicker melamine sheet less expensive than OSB and melamine?).
Sounds good, if you get pressed for time I think I can pretty easily make them two piece. Either a half lap style or semi-scarf joint. But a one piece is even better.
Black, or natural is fine. We can load it up with stickers either V1 or let everyone add some. A full sized beam is pretty big.
Yeah I was thinking both, depending on the graphic…and we can show off some amazing brand new multicolor mulit tool pen swaps.
I love the idea of having a full sized LR4. I think it will help people understand a big advantage of building one. A full sized CNC for ~$800
Sorry I have been quiet, I am still coming. I have been traveling every week this year for work so far. I’ve been to Austin, Seattle, SFO, NYC, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney (might be missing some) and still got NYC and London before heading to RMRRF.
I have the backdrops, and the partially assembled LR4 packed up and ready to ship out. The assembly and wiring shouldn’t be too bad but I could not think of a good way to get it much more plug and play than it is.
Everything else looking good for the big build Jim? I have the printed parts and screws ready to go.
My last real task is make a pen mount that works with the router in place.
