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* Build a bunch of CNC machines for the Hackspace | * Build a bunch of CNC machines for the Hackspace | ||
| + | * Practise bot - to learn about gcode, movement, how to crash, how to fix | ||
| + | * medium accuracy A4 size mill - for pretty accurate wood and plastic | ||
| + | * mini mill CNC converstion - for metals. As accurate as the base mill | ||
| + | * super accurate mill - for isolation routing of fine PCB, for making moulds for fine pitch resin cast gears and similar parts. Fairly small - less than A4 size | ||
| + | * medium size plasma cutter - for Steel plate and various stock up to 20mm (depends on the plasma torch). Bed about 1m square | ||
| + | * large full size sheet mill - able to cut 1400 x 2400 sheet goods. 1/2" router based plus dedicated dust collection | ||
| + | * various 4th axis devices - rotary tables, etc. | ||
* Build a decent aquaponics system | * Build a decent aquaponics system | ||
* Solar powered lawn munching swarm of robots | * Solar powered lawn munching swarm of robots | ||
Revision as of 13:25, 3 May 2013
Steve Ganly @ganly
Background
- Self taught 6502 assembler on a vic20 aged 12 in 1980 (yep - one of those...), had a few games released in the 1980's micro boom on the Commodore 64
- BSc degree in Computer Science graduating in 1990
- Founded an IT consultancy and grew it to 44 people servicing merchant banks setting up and maintaining large networks of Unix systems
- Long time Perl Hacker, been working with Ruby on Rails since about 2007
Skills
- Learned basic wood and metalworking as a child, did O'Levels in Technical Drawing and something called Modular Technology
- Last 5 years re-examining things from the ground up - doing some fine woodworking and accurate metalwork on lathes and mills
- Big time automation fan - CNC using Mach3
Goals
- Get a deeper understanding of electronics - I'm still not happy with my mental model of semiconductors at the molecular level and that bothers me
- Improve the CNC facilities of the Hackspace
Project plans and speculative ideas
- Build a bunch of CNC machines for the Hackspace
* Practise bot - to learn about gcode, movement, how to crash, how to fix * medium accuracy A4 size mill - for pretty accurate wood and plastic * mini mill CNC converstion - for metals. As accurate as the base mill * super accurate mill - for isolation routing of fine PCB, for making moulds for fine pitch resin cast gears and similar parts. Fairly small - less than A4 size * medium size plasma cutter - for Steel plate and various stock up to 20mm (depends on the plasma torch). Bed about 1m square * large full size sheet mill - able to cut 1400 x 2400 sheet goods. 1/2" router based plus dedicated dust collection * various 4th axis devices - rotary tables, etc.
- Build a decent aquaponics system
- Solar powered lawn munching swarm of robots
- Scratch built radio controlled hovercraft
- Make some ferrofluid for the space and do some films of it's properties
- Make a 1D sliding saw tool
- Make a 2D sliding router tool (guides like CNC but manually set)
- Experiments with router height adjustment mechanisms
- Maybe make a wooden bandsaw like Mathias Wandel's
- Test making different gear types in the space, do some how-to videos for the available tool chains
- Learn about welding and brazing
- Try out some metal casting - Aluminium and maybe brass
- Build a chalk drawing robot
- Do some experiments with quadcopters and tricopters
- Wind powered compost assist