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Shapeoko 2 Finished and Cutting Wood

2/4/2015

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It's been a while since I updated my blog. I've been very busy in my shop and my YouTube Channel continues to grow approaching 1000 subscribers. During all this I was able to put in the hours needed to complete my Shapeoko 2 that I purchased around Christmas. There was a $100 off sale and I bought one.

The kit has a lot of steps and it's not really a beginner kit but I was able to get it together and cut my first piece of wood. I had several mis-attempts because I had not setup the GRBL software properly. Inventables gave me the tip to check the settings and I found the error.
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I was finally able to cut out my new CHEP logo and it did a fine job. I need to make a visit to Harbor Freight tools to see what bits I can get for this thing. I want to get some small blade bits so I will be able to cut out circuit boards. My goal is to find a way to cut out 2 layer boards from ExpressPCB files. I can get the gerbers through CopperConnection and then I'll try to find a Gerber to G-Code converter. I know it exists but I just haven't put the time to fully investigate the steps plus I didn't have the the CNC tool to test it all out until now. Learning to cut circuit boards is just one thing on my list of things to do. 
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I also 3D printed a base to mount the Arduino board to the frame. If you look close you can see that the mounting bosses split. I have a fix I want to try so that will be part of a future YouTube video. If you have one of these Shapeoko's and have some tips for me, I'm all ears.
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Joe Campbell
5/19/2015 09:02:28 am

If I see that right, it is a gShield on an Arduino and believe those are NEMA 17 motors? However there doesn't appears to be heat sinks on the stepper drivers, is this correct? Are there heat issues as I have an older Fireball-90 (parallel port ver) with NEMA 23's and it gets hot and I have huge heat sinks on it. Was thinking about converting, but concerned that the gShield won't be able to drive the 23's for a couple hour cut.

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