Hackaday (unofficial) August 10, 2023 9:00pm Laser Engraver Uses All of the DVD Drive #laserhacks #arduino #carriage #cnc #dvddrive #engraver #gcode #laser #opticaldrive #steppermotor #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Laser Engraver Uses All Of The DVD Drive For the last ten to fifteen years, optical drives have been fading out of existence. There’s little reason to have them around anymore unless you are serious about archiving data or unconvinc…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 14, 2021 1:00am Improving a Mini-Lathe with a Few Clever Hacks #toolhacks #carriage #engraving #lathe #machining #metalwork #milling #minilathe #tools #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Improving A Mini-Lathe With A Few Clever Hacks Like many budget machinists, the delightfully optimistically named [We Can Do That Better] had trouble with some of the finer controls on his import mini-lathe. But rather than suffer through it, h…