Polycarbonate cutting
Hello again, Today I’m trying to finish the box that contains the electronics of the OX CNC. I already have a box that I made from layers of MDF So right now it looks like this: It’s not the prettiest box…
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Author Archive: Martin Masson
UNIX system administrator on Solaris, Linux and VMWare. This is my first foray in the CNC world.
Halftoning with a CNC
There are different ways to get your pictures carved with the CNC. I found out that Easel does it one way and that way seems to be best used when doing engravings. But what I found out today is that little…
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Spoilerboard clamps
First things I need for this brand new CNC are some kind of clamps that can easily pin the materials to the spoilerboard. There are a couple of designs around the net but I settled on this fairly simple one from…
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Spoilerboard
The spoilerboard is the sacrificial piece of material you put at the bottom of your CNC machine. Since it is going to be replaced every now and then, I thought about it and I found that it would be nice…
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Openbuilds OX CNC first run! W00t!! It’s alive
This is the first things we did with the CNC: Of course drawing the ChiliPeppr logo is not original, but frankly I think it’s the easiest thing to do when you are a total newbie to this thing. Stay tuned…
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Montreal Foodtrucks Schedule Project
At my previous job I started a little project to have some information displayed on big TVs: News, internal news, Pictures, Company’s tweets, etc. I based the project on XIBO and combined it with an AndroidTV. That worked very well, the problem was…
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Welcome to my site
Welcome to my new CNC blog, My name is Martin Masson and I just built a Openbuilds OX CNC!! Yay!! I’m not someone who is used to share my personal experiences on the web but getting into this CNC project…
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