It may have been overly ambitious... About 6 years ago I got really interested in RC helicopters and airplanes. A friend had been "doing" RC for quite a while, and I had watched him fly his RC plane several times. After seeing how he could fly, it didn't take much encouragement for me to blow a few paychecks on a plane, helicopter and several short course trucks.
It might have been several planes, 3 or 4 helis and 5 trucks. Like I said, a few paychecks...
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| Two of the trucks I built |
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| The RC Room |
Anyway, to get back to the point, I re-discovered that I suck at hand/eye coordination, and excel at detail oriented assembly, setup and general programming. Needless to say, my sucking at RC is what got all this started. It really re-lit an old fire and drove me to get into 3D printing and 3D CAD.
I foolishly purchased a production model 3D printer from a big 3D printing company and had nothing but problems. So over the last 2 years I researched and modified that printer into a working and reliable machine. While doing that I have also built a Shapeoko2 based CNC Router, and taught myself the basics of VB.NET programming.
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| Conversion of 3D printer to Open Source |
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My 3'x3' CNC Router in process of being built. Many of the parts were printed with the finished 3D printer conversion
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All that said and done, today is the kick-off of Collector CNC! My family is on board, and I am dedicating a significant portion of my off time to figure out how to make all this time and self learning pay off.
Hopefully this will help serve as a portal to other DIYers and Makers who want to get out of the every day and into the hustle on their own!
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