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Progress on the CNC Puck Mill

02.15.2018 by rich // Leave a Comment

I’ve been working a couple of nights a week assembling the CNC puck Mill. It’s a small CNC mill with a work area of about 5 inches square. I’ve tried to use Makerslide, and components available from Inventables.com for as much of the construction as possible. I’ve only machined small adapter pieces, and things like the belt holder, and limit switch arms.

Overview of the CNC Puck Mill

You can see the belt drive installed here on the Y axis

The electronics are laid out on the bench. Thinking about how to house this stuff.

CNC Milling Hockey Pucks!

02.15.2018 by rich // Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, it was my son’s birthday party. I decided it would be pretty cool to CNC carve each guest’s name into a puck, to include in the loot bags. It was pretty trivial to set up a template for hockey pucks (they’re 3″ round, and an inch thick, by the way), and to create a design for each guest in Vectric V-Carve pro. I created a single file, with each name on a separate layer, then simply created all the .NC files one after another.

The pucks turned out really well – the rubber is very easy to carve, as you can imagine, and the pucks were really well received by the kids.