Thanks for looking.by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
I am selling a Handibot Developer edition on eBay. Listing Thanks for your interest.by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
I saw a "This Old House" episode which showcased a timber frame company who had pioneered the use of CNC to design and mill complete timber frame structures. It was impressive. It also makes me think timber framing is completely out of the Handibot's league, which is not a knock on the Handibot. You need pretty substantial tools for that kind of lumber. And the Handibot is not aby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
When you flip wood in a CNC router, Y zero moves to the middle of the workpiece. If (BIG if) you can align the HandiBot's y axis with the first side's y axis AFTER you flip you can mill both sides. ANY difference in the machine's and workpice's y axes (either distance or parallel) is effecticively multiplied by 2 and then cut into the wood. This is the practical reality.by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
In theory this might be possible. In practice, well, let's just say a lot could go wrong. The first problem is that longer rails of the same sectional dimension will sag more over the longer unsupported spans. Or not be damped enough. Or else the motors would prove painfully slow in the larger work area. CNC machines are all trade-offs between various design goals and price, the HandiBot incby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
If you get more than two lasers anyway, could you place four lasers on the collar so that they form two parallel lines on each axis? Then you could offset them, say, a16th so that the space between the double crossed lines is the bit position. Not quite sure what this buys you except maybe a smidge more precision.by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
* Zero Z by shutting off power and pushing router body down until contact. Then turn on power.by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
"Because I'm using tiled files, the machine thinks T2 is to start at 6,0 as an origin." That's not quite right. The machine isn't expecting to be offset. The machine always has an origin of 0,0. And so do the tiled files. Unless I am missing something you can think of tiling as either a way to makes workpieces bigger than the machine area or else make tiles to beby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
The way I'd do it is to make a regular profile layout and then eliminate most of the long straight line segments between direction changes. So, for example, if you had a rectangular panel with slots in it, you leave the panel corners and the slots. The slots' distances to the corners would stay unchanged, and the corners would show where the straight cuts need to happen. Alternativeby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
This is interesting. But it also makes me think that using the HandiBot for long straight cuts is really inefficient. It seems like combining the HandiBot for detail and curves with a track saw for straight runs might go fast enough to be worth the hassle. I could really use a little wikihouse and I am going to ponder this. Great lateral thinking!by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
Thanks. It's quarter-inch baltic birch and unless I'm mistaken I dimensioned the slots to exactly that in mm--6.35 to be precise. I'd like to contribute to the github, but not this particular project if you don't mind.by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
Out of curiosity I learned on the web that 3/8" hdpe is $4/ft2 before shipping.by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
What is the Handibot made of? And what does the stuff cost, per sheet? I ask because I am working on a tiling jig. Thanks.by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
Interesting problem. You may be able to 'drop in' a 240 VAC deWalt router IF the power relay is rated for it (or replace power relay if not). Then you only need worry about the arduino and steppers. I'm guessing they've already given this matter some thought, back in the mother ship. I'd skip the transformer if I were in your position. Heavy and crucial, just oneby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
Marc Goodner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've been using a pass depth of .2". What speed > are you running at? I'm set at 1" per second which > seemed slow from what else I've read here, maybe > it's still not slow enough. Ii'm working with > average cabinet grade plywood right now. May I suggest thatby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
I feel your pain. I was cutting some small pieces of three quarter bamboo ply (tough, tough material) and getting garbage. What I ended up doing was: 1 clean HandiBot neoprene bottom of all dust. Maximizes friction between surfaces. 2 cutting depth of 1/4" max. One of the beauties of multiple passes is that if they align you know the strategy is good. 3 lubricate router bit religioby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
And you can download trial V-carve from vectrix.by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
That amounts to cruelty in my book. I never got a thumb drive, instead ShopBot e-mailed a link to download all the software a few days before HandiBot arrived. I think the link was specific to me because as I recall it was already registered to my username. So maybe there's one for you? May I suggest you check all your e-mails from SB & see if one has a link. Otherwise keep fingers crossby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
Here's my first project. It's a simple pencil holder made from five pieces of quarter-inch baltic ply. I used an 1/8th-inch downcut bit, two passes, 2ips cut speed. 1. I imported the file into v-Carve and set it up to fit onto 3 tiles. Because none of the profiles spans between tiles it could just as easily have been three individual files. But the Handibot is all about the tiling anby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
Short answer: No can do. I am running Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro under bootcamp. The HandiBot software works very well. I tried Parallels but the performance hit was a deal-breaker. A lot of CAM software is exclusively Windows. ShopBot claims the HandiBot will be controllable by a smartphone or tablet, which implies iOS support (or else they would specify Android). And one of the new $300by 0,0 - Handibot Forum
Kind of dead around here. One thought about Lua and V-Carve and tiling. Lua exposes pretty much everything V-Carve does to a scripting environment. However one thing it does not support is tiling, which is one of the ingredients needed to enable the handibot to handle larger profiles than 6x8 inches. V-Carve has a tiling function which breaks down a job into smaller rectangle of nearly anby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
I received the download link and license # for v-carve pro for shopbot. Thanks very much for that! V-carve pro runs programs called 'gadgets' which users can write in the Lua programming language. Vectric provides an SDK with a language ref, code examples etc. The SDK appears to let you do anything programmatically you can do in v-carve. I downloaded an IDE called SCite for Luby 0,0 - Handibot Forum
Thanks for the status update and information about the DW611. As an eager early adopter I immediately checked out the Precision Bits website. Now I have two questions: 1. Precision sez "These routers will not work with continuity style touch-off gages used for setting tool height!!" May I ask how the Handibot zeroes Z? 2. Does the Handibot actually include a Precision colby 0,0 - Handibot Forum