Stuff What I Made

As a teenager in the late 90s, a lot of the music that I owned was on vinyl thanks to it being much more affordable than getting it on CD. Who could have predicted how that vinyl would become fashionable again? Anyway I digress, I’d had this vinyl sitting in a pile for 15 years. I should do something with it, I thought. [Read More]

My milling machine originally came with a normal AC motor. This had drawbacks. [Read More]

The controller box my milling machine originally came with was a bit lack-lustre really. The box itself appeared to be repurposed from a previous life, and from the outside it had minimal indication of what was going on. At some point I added (I can’t remember when) hall effect limit switches and simple opto-isolator based circuit to insulate them from the Gecko stepper driver control board. Later, for reasons I’ll cover in another post, I decided to replace the motor, and that meant building a new control box. [Read More]

For a couple of years I had a very niche bike frame, a Haro Sonix. This hybrid URT design was… odd. To compound the oddness I fitted it with a Rohloff Speedhub. Assuming the presence of a derailleur, the frame had no chain tensioning device. Time to add one. [Read More]

In 2005 I bought a Taig CNC milling machine for no particular reason other than I wanted a milling machine. It was about $2000 shipped from the US, which in retrospect seems very expensive considering both inflation and what’s available on the market now. Anyway, when I moved it to my flat I found that in the limited space I had available, some kind of cabinet was going to be essential to keep chips out of the electronics (and off the floor). [Read More]