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PhenixRising
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Posted: 03:09am 18 Sep 2025

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Looks like it uses FluidNC.

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Posted: 03:35am 18 Sep 2025

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Road the cross chicken the did why ?

Volhout
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Posted: 06:29am 18 Sep 2025

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In the video you see only the mill. There is a second (stationary) device, that has angular and linear decoders.

But yes... it is new.

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Posted: 07:51am 18 Sep 2025

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I think it works like this: you guide the milling machine by hand and only have to move within certain limits. The rest is compensated for by an X/Y suspension controlled by stepper motors and calculated by the PC using CAD software. This allows you to achieve very precise results on large surfaces without any wobbling. The width within which you have to move is several centimeters and easy to maintain.

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AFAIK, my brother told me about this invention 3 years ago, there is a camera build in and you look at a screen where to move

Saw the video too late. This is much further developed :)
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Posted: 08:41am 18 Sep 2025

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Volhout said In the video you see only the mill. There is a second (stationary) device, that has angular and linear decoders.
Volhout

I think the decoder sits between the "r" and your red circle. The belts go through the machine and are just fastened at their ends. The motor on top drives it.Very low cost and clever.

PhenixRising
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Posted: 10:32am 18 Sep 2025

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I'm on the road with only my phone so haven't checked it out yet.

BUT I'm sure I saw mention of servo motors and encoders(?)

FluidNC supporting servos and encoders?

News to me. I thought I'd be the first to do this, using a PicoMite and taking pulse/direction from FluidNC.

DaveJacko
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Posted: 09:48pm 19 Sep 2025

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I did something similar with a micromite..probably about 100 lines of code
2 minute video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buybf25-wbg
it can't be that clever, if I can do it

using gravity as the 2nd and 3rd axis helps

Try swapping 2 and 3 over

PhenixRising
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Posted: 12:57pm 22 Sep 2025

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DaveJacko said I did something similar with a micromite..probably about 100 lines of code
2 minute video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buybf25-wbg
it can't be that clever, if I can do it

using gravity as the 2nd and 3rd axis helps

LOVE this thing

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Posted: 02:58pm 22 Sep 2025

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DaveJacko said I did something similar with a micromite..probably about 100 lines of code
2 minute video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buybf25-wbg
it can't be that clever, if I can do it

using gravity as the 2nd and 3rd axis helps

That is very cool!

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