Summary

So far, we’ve covered mostly mechanical upgrades to our 3018. There are more that we should cover, but they are very quickly becoming projects of their own. The first one we want to cover next is adding a laser and discuss what the impacts are on our operations when we do. The other project is to review how we can further improve our rotary axis. However, from our work in this chapter, we now have a machine that can home to the same place every time, a way to accurately zero our Z-axis, and a way to stop the machine in an emergency, and our machine can now double as a plotter and drag knife, albeit a slow one.

You will have noticed the utility of having access to a 3D printer due to my by-now multiple references to Thingiverse and similar sites. This is because there is a wealth of information there that you can lean on. I try very hard to not reinvent the wheel, especially with designs. I might modify a design, but if I can use it as is, so much the better. Definitely...