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Here it is, the build and then finally a video of it in action:

Got on with it a but more tonight. I`ve threaded everything and turned it down to size so that all joints are flush. Problem is that it now looks like a aluminium cigar tube or as my wife put it, a metal tapon holder :bang:
Exploded picture of the parts so far, blind cap, barrel, [...]

I`ve not posted much over the last week, I posted a little project in the making yesterday but the rest of my time has been spent away from the clock throwing acrylic and wooden pen blanks into the scrap bin for a present for my dad for Christmas! I`m talking hours of work, just looking [...]

Well I got a bit further today. Managed to get hold of a Development board, load the PIC and test the circuit with an osciloscope. Here is the setup:

EasyPIC5 dev board

Osc, shows us when we are pulsing and is easier to test and calculate from than actually hooking up a motor. Although a motor in [...]

Hi Guys
After the sucess and enjoyment of converting my Vertex rotary table to CNC, I thought I`d jump back onto the X-axis conversion. I did try this some time ago and it failed so I didn`t post anything but now looking back, the two shafts were not aligned, only a fraction out but it made [...]

I managed to put together the circuit for it and I have bought a few kits from maplin over the years and this is the first that has ever worked and it was built from scratch!
I spent about two hours pulling my hair out before I got it running. If you go back to [...]

I`ve not had much shop time over the past few days with the run up to Christmas and family stuff but I have had a little time most evening to continue with developing my understanding of coding. I now realise I was nieve to say that I could just build the X axis controller that [...]

This is my first attempt at a simple PIC code.
The intention is that it is a set of traffic lights, Road1 and Road2.
Road1 is always green
Unless:
Sensor at road2 is triggered, road1 lights go red, road2 lights go green

Code was wrote in MikroC. This was my first code and the development board used is [...]

I use to own a Unimat 3 mini lathe many years ago and I really enjoyed it for small work. Looking back now, since owning my Asian Lathe and Boxford it was tiny in comparison but there was somthing about its size that has appealed to me. I`ve been looking since summer to find a [...]

Finally, last one on here now until I get some videos of it in action but I have finally mounted it to the wall. It is on removable brackets so can come off quickly if needed.
The picture shows it mounted next to my mill. Sorry about the background, the ladders in the background are the [...]