First test

Post date: Aug 11, 2013 8:34:00 PM

Everything is FINALLY together! I got the spindle installed on the new Z axis, and cut some test pads. My parents were kind enough to let me install a 220V outlet near the machine, so I didn't even have to find a new location to operate it.

Pictures follow, and even more theoretically will as I cut some useful boards.

These pictures show the front and back of the assembled machine, plus the test pads I cut; they're 0.5mm-pitch, and look quite nice, especially when you consider that I didn't have any backlash compensation in my software configuration.

Some board pictures will hopefully follow in the next day or so.