• Progress
  • My progress as I would hope was rapid and fast but I ran into a big limitation… Shipping, I bought 90% of everything I needed on or around November 1st  when I proposed the project. But 26 days later I am missing a large percent of my material to finish the table project. 
  • I have found an easy to program controller and wired it to accept all stepper motors.[1]
  • I have made the track systems built[2] waiting on 2020 aluminum rails (promised 10/29/2024 ) to mount  ball screws and nema23 motor mounts.
  • I have written basic software for turning svg into paths. This took me much longer than expected. Found a new GUI software in python ‘dearpygui’ and am currently moving all code over to that.  

Example code:

• Documentation
  • controller board with all motor drivers mounted and all power sources mounted
  • [1] video of me getting controller board working went through many different brands and issues. 

• [2] Track systems is built, need to start machining and making the pillars to hold the 62+lbs x/z

• Doodle of the “plan” for this project
• Software so far – svg to path

What still needs to be done. 

• Software: I need to make it so I can turn the svg paths into tool paths with the turtle library and make it so it’s the  minimal amount of distance traveled between segments . Make an inclusion/exclusion list this is for cut quality, Going clockwise makes the part on the inside nicer and going counter clockwise makes the cut on the outside nicer. 
• Software: speeds and feeds of the cuts.
• Table: make uprights that can hold 65 lbs. I have tried multiple failed prints and nothing is working. So I am switching to steel and aluminum.
•  Move a Gcodeto the controller and make it work. 
• Figureout how many Real life millimeters is equal to a code millimeters. 

Timeline:

Timeline has shifted down a little bit because of shipping, but we also get five more days to work on it. Nothing really has changed, just a lot more stress as parts come in late. 

11/19/24	Give an update.	11/26/24
11/23/24	Hopefully get all parts in and start machining on multiple plates and up rights to hold the x/z axis.Get software to pair with the controller board.	12/5/24
12/1/24	Clean up and make something.	12/10/24