You should slide some thin HDPE or fogged acrylic strips inside the gantry. That way the light gets diffused and the whole thing glows. And why stop at the gantry, add some more strips to the side rails as well!
I'm disappointed you didn't optimize your combinational logic circuit using a Karnaugh map. Honestly, I expected more from you Winston. Also you know way too much about this stuff to call yourself a noob. Well done sir. Let me know if you want a crash course in PCB design. I literally cringed when you laid out your proto board pattern using fusion! Love the result, very impressive!
After watching for a year ...I started out completely clueless and slowly learned what adaptive clearing and chip load refers to. I understand a little more about Fusion 360 during your videos and now this!!!! Awe I guess I won't be having multi colored lights any time soon!!
EE here, cool build. When you do end up designing some proper PCBs please consider using KiCad. Also, you probably already know this, but with milling PCBs it's best to use an electric probe to depth map the blank copper clad and compensate in software.
This is exactly what I was hoping to do! I would recommend trying Frtizing if you're a newbie to circuit design. I couldn't figure out Autodesk eagle quickly enough (sorry I'm an architect not an engineer) but Frtizing was super easy for me to figure out how to mill my first PCB for a camera rail I built.
Winston - you could/should have used an Arduino, and made a custom breakout PCB for it. You could have also used a WS2812 LED strip then, allowing you to do custom shades, color patterns etc.
I tried my hand at PCB's prototyping on our CNC at work, but I found it wasn't worth it for my use case. All my designs are intended to be fabricated professionally for the final product. I found that you end up making so many compromises to to accommodate the CNC, that it is faster to just send the board out instead of having to layout the board twice. Where this is might be useful is for one off boards you don't intend to have fab'ed, boards where you absolutely have to have that day, or RF boards with crazy shapes for filters or antennas.
doing this in Linuxcnc is really easy. You can use the classicladder to get the state of the machine and then have a logic control the leds. You could also add a button to permanently disable the leds.
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You should slide some thin HDPE or fogged acrylic strips inside the gantry. That way the light gets diffused and the whole thing glows. And why stop at the gantry, add some more strips to the side rails as well!
I'm disappointed you didn't optimize your combinational logic circuit using a Karnaugh map. Honestly, I expected more from you Winston. Also you know way too much about this stuff to call yourself a noob. Well done sir. Let me know if you want a crash course in PCB design. I literally cringed when you laid out your proto board pattern using fusion! Love the result, very impressive!
Now, in the spirit of digital electronics 101, redo the entire circuit using only NAND gates.
I was going to say something similar! I'm disappointed you didn't optimize your combinational logic circuit using a Karnaugh map.
That's exactly my thought too!
Thanks for the video Winston. Looking good. Keep safe and stay well.
After watching for a year ...I started out completely clueless and slowly learned what adaptive clearing and chip load refers to. I understand a little more about Fusion 360 during your videos and now this!!!! Awe I guess I won't be having multi colored lights any time soon!!
Great Job. As an EE and CS, I have to admit I've built projects that way too. Looking forward to more.
I will never do this or anything close to it but I enjoyed watching your process.
That turned out awesome. Good work.
EE here, cool build. When you do end up designing some proper PCBs please consider using KiCad. Also, you probably already know this, but with milling PCBs it's best to use an electric probe to depth map the blank copper clad and compensate in software.
Kicad, FlatCAM, bCNC. They have their quirks, but they are my heroes.
give KiCad and/or Eagle a look for designing circuits. they are both free and have been a blast to use
Resisting the urge to say "Transistors are amplifiers, not switches."
Oops. Said it anyway.
This is seriously cool. Thanks for sharing.
This is exactly what I was hoping to do! I would recommend trying Frtizing if you're a newbie to circuit design. I couldn't figure out Autodesk eagle quickly enough (sorry I'm an architect not an engineer) but Frtizing was super easy for me to figure out how to mill my first PCB for a camera rail I built.
Winston - you could/should have used an Arduino, and made a custom breakout PCB for it. You could have also used a WS2812 LED strip then, allowing you to do custom shades, color patterns etc.
I tried my hand at PCB's prototyping on our CNC at work, but I found it wasn't worth it for my use case. All my designs are intended to be fabricated professionally for the final product. I found that you end up making so many compromises to to accommodate the CNC, that it is faster to just send the board out instead of having to layout the board twice. Where this is might be useful is for one off boards you don't intend to have fab'ed, boards where you absolutely have to have that day, or RF boards with crazy shapes for filters or antennas.
I half expected you to make it an infinity led setup inside the skel'd gantry, especially when the infinity mirror was briefly shown.
nice thanks for sharing, definately something I can use in my own builds! I'm quite bad at electronics so this helped me for sure!
Nice project, but i dont get it, why you did not design a circuit board if you mill it yourself anyway.
I thought that at first, but then he said he'd not got to learning that yet.
Hi Winston, for brass cutting which you recommend, Dewalt D26200 or Makita RT0700C
doing this in Linuxcnc is really easy. You can use the classicladder to get the state of the machine and then have a logic control the leds. You could also add a button to permanently disable the leds.
Very cool idea. This could be built into the control boards by default
funny! i'm working on datron systems :) looks nice!
Dang, I went back to school and DEEPLY miss the ability to blast couple weeks away on small projects like this :(. 3 semesters left.....
Any chances you’ll release a video about swapping the y axis plates to move the x axis slightly further back like it is in this video?
Why will the adv. v. Carve not satisfy the pocket with a v carve bit,it leaves raised areas.
love your work. :)
Can you throw in that link to the bit runner video?
Great stuff as ever.
ruclips.net/video/HPsC1NDrViU/видео.html
Where’s the Boolean algebra? 😉