[QUELAB CNC] Shapeoko Status

[John Benedetto]

The Shapeoko ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H X-Carve has been moved into MASTS, and is on the table Gonner built for the Shop PC.  It is right inside the shop near the light switches.

As far as I know, Morgan accomplished the initial task he volunteered to do, and retrofitted the Shapeoko into an X-Carve machine, with the improved Z-axis as well as installation of the Bosch Colt router mount.

HOWEVER, as we are all prone to feature creep, he then intended to build a dedicated interface box for the thing, out of the little white touch screen PC thing that he & Bandit brought into the space lo many many months ago.  AFAIK the X-Carve itself is complete.  To use it, all you would need is a machine with the Arduino IDE installed, and your favorite software, either the G-Code sender, or Easel, or the web-based MakerCam, or what have you, to send files to it.  Oh, and cutters, we definitely need end mills and what have you.

Does anyone have a problem with relocating the CNCs (once they are all found & at Quelab again) to the office in the Annex?  Even if only temporarily? Just to have a dedicated private space for us to get the bugs worked out and get them damn things going?

JT

From: CNC [mailto:cnc-bounces at quelab.net] On Behalf Of Geoff Nicholson
Sent: Monday, May 9, 2016 11:43 AM
To: Quelab CNC SIG <cnc at quelab.net>
Subject: [QUELAB CNC] Shapeoko Status

As a part of the agreement which we made with Inventables when they gave us this machine, we have to make it available to the general public at least once a month.  Since it's been offline for about as long as we've owned it, this is non-optimal. As a budding CNC user, who's been waiting months for the machine to be fixed, I was just curious if it had been or not.
Whether or not we have a place to store it (I'm not sure where it went, if it is no longer in in Room One) it needs to be found, status documented, and then the CNC list made aware of it's disposition.  I understand college, but as far as I'm aware, Morgan has been busy rebuilding the 3D printer since it caught fire in early March.

And if no one has made meaningful progress on the Shapeoko since the palm router was installed (and it is still oflline), do we have all the parts to retrofit the shapeoko to the last known-good configuration so it can be used?  Now that the woodshop class is not using the shop quite as much, we can find a place (which doesn't have to be permanent) to set it up and finish repairing and/or retrofitting it.
Because it's been lying around and may have been considered an abandoned project in room one, who knows where it's gone.  If no one on the list can positively identify it's current location, when it is found, please post to the list.

-- geoff
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On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:44 PM, John Anthes <jpanthes at comcast.net<mailto:jpanthes at comcast.net>> wrote:
Geoff, Hi –
Good question.

Last time I was there Eric, Morgan and I reviewed the status.
Some of the replacement Bosche router parts seemed to have a wobble?
A cutter that wobbles in the chuck is bad news.

I left thinking we had found a way forward?
So the hardware seems capable of going forward?

I am unclear on an agreed upon location of the CNC?

I have listened to three members about alternative software: Morgan, Adric, and another whose name I have not learned to remember yet.

It seemed to me that the “Person in Charge” is Morgan?
But Morgan, at the time, seemed to be distracted by a number of conflicting topics: UNM classes, upcoming travel, and 3-D printer projects?

So, what is the status?
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