Category Archives: CNC

Depanelizing PCBs

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Aaron Ramsey

Just a quick video showing how I depanelize PCBs. I typically buy PCBs from SeeedStudio or iTeadStudio and it makes sense to use the 10cm by 10cm board size and jam more than one PCB into that area. Diptrace (my … Continue reading →

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Printrbot Jr. Arrives…. mostly

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

Its been a fun week… first the laser and now the Printrbot Jr. arrived last night! We weren’t going to build the printer until this weekend, but decided to take a look at all the pretty wood pieces. Printrbot has … Continue reading →

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Holy Frikkin’ Laser!

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

  Well, the K40-III 40W laser arrived! I bought it on ebay from a seller called ‘rumei-shopping’. $853 bucks later (+$53 for brokerage and taxes) and Fedex dropped it off this afternoon for me to play with. The packaging that … Continue reading →

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Still 3D printing…

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Aaron Ramsey

After spending the last couple months tweaking, tuning and generally goofing around with my Prusa Reprap 3D printer, this weekend I figured it was finally time to start printing robot parts. I’ve had a minisumo design kicking around for the … Continue reading →

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Lazy summer and a sumo sneak peak

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

I’m out visiting relatives in Saskatchewan so progress on robots and posts on this blog have suffered a bit. I’m starting to think about the CNRG robot games in November which are coming like a freight train. Any robots that … Continue reading →

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CNC’ing SumoORE Chassis

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Took a video of the latest chassis being cut on the CNC machine.  I’ve made some small changes to the chassis to make it fit together a little more snugly, added a cutout at the front top plate to make … Continue reading →

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Back to the SumoORE chassis

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Made some updates to the SumoORE chassis today. I moved the front blade out flush at the front, shaved a bit off the back, cut some openings at the back for the rear IR. Instead of black like the first … Continue reading →

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