CNC Shop

Equipment

• Bridgeport CNC Mill
• DIY Little CNC
• Rhino ST6 CNC Lathe
• LinuxCNC Plasma Cutter
• 21" Strip Heater
• Design Workstation

Useful Sites

Virtual Machine Shop

Information on a wide variety of machining operations.

http://kanabco.com/vms/library.html

G-Code Generators

CNC Halftone Wizard

Creates the g-code for creating a halftone interpretation of a PNG, JPG or GIF.

http://synapticcircle.com/technopolis/2011/09/04/cnc-halftone-wizard-1-0/

CAM.PY

Written in python by Neil Gershenfeld of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. CAM.PY generates g-code tool paths for milling 2D and 3D objects. Useful in creating g-code for cutting PCB's.

http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/fab/dist/cad.py

F-Engrave

F-Engrave is a text to g-code program that is written in python.

http://home.comcast.net/~sskroch/Fengrave/fengrave.html

Information on Gears

Timing Belts, Pulleys and Metric Gears

Info from Stock Drive Products/ Sterling Instrument (SDP/SI)

http://www.sdp-si.com/web/html/reference_library.htm

Trash

• Please don't throw sheet metal, copper, or aluminum away. We recycle these.