I had mentioned and several people requested a video of the machine doing something.
The cnc router is no longer scary as I lowered the rapid speed from 1700+ IPM down to 400 IPM.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...15522721&hl=en
Here is a link to a video of the machine cutting a piece of cedar. I am using a 1/4" V Bit to engrave the street address number. I added a clip art of the Cedar tree before the first nyumber and then traced a image of Mt Rainier onto a piece of paper, Scanned it into the PC. Used a raster to vector program to vectorize it and then pasted that into Bobcad 21 to generate the G code. Mach3 is used as the G code interpreter running on an old laptop.
I probably cut a little to deep and I should have been cutting a bit faster as the first cuts burned the wood a bit. Frorgive me for that as I usually work with metal and I am not well versed in wood butchering
Dan Mauch
Camtronics Inc
www.camtronics-cnc.com
assembled and tested G203 stepper systems