by Bob Warfield | Blog, CNC Basics, Workshop and Storage
Special Offer: Order a rack before end of year 2018, tell SCE you heard about it from CNCCookbook, and they’ll give you free shipping. This is a follow-up review of Santa Cruz Electronics TTS Tool holder Racking System. SCE is one of a select few...
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by Bob Warfield | Blog, CNC Projects, DIY CNC, Workshop and Storage
Home Shop Machinist Hall of Fame [ Hall of Fame, Pt 2 ] [ Hall of Fame, Pt 3 ] [ Hall of Fame, Pt 4 ] Check out these photos and short bios of home shop machinists that I was really impressed by. Hopefully the owners enjoy the hero worship! Note that there are...
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by Bob Warfield | Blog, CNC Projects, Workshop and Storage
Some thoughts about Vehicles as platforms with API’s. We want to enable vehicles to be open ecosystem that can support 3rd party applications and utilities of various kinds. These applications and utilities will have access to Open API’s that...
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by Bob Warfield | Blog, Tools and Techniques, Workshop and Storage
Sometimes centralization is great–I’ve got all my tools in one gigantic rolling cabinet so I always know where they are. Except when I leave one laying where I used it last because I got distracted or forgot about it. There’s an alternate...
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by Bob Warfield | Blog, Tools and Techniques, Workshop and Storage
This is part 6 of our Ultimate Tony Stark Inspired Workshop Series. You didn’t think we were done building a Tony Stark-inspired workshop, did you? I just needed a little break to do the research involved for the next installment. That’s really what the...
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by Bob Warfield | 3D Printing, Blog, Workshop and Storage
This is part 5 of our Ultimate Tony Stark Inspired Workshop Series. In this installment, we’ll be taking a look at what sort of 3D Printers a workshop like this might include. There are a number of different 3D Printing technologies available, and no one...
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by Bob Warfield | Blog, Workshop and Storage
This is part 4 of our Ultimate Tony Stark Inspired Workshop Series. In this episode, we’ll go to the very heart of the shop, at least for CNCCookbook readers. Yes, that’s right, we’re going to take a look at what sort of mills and lathes might be...
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by Bob Warfield | Blog, Workshop and Storage
This is part 3 of our Ultimate Tony Stark Inspired Workshop Series. Time to dive into some of the beefier areas of our workshop, namely what kinds of machines will inhabit these hallowed halls? Cutting Rough Stock to Shape Cutting rough stock to shape is an important...
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by Bob Warfield | Blog, Software, Workshop and Storage
This is part 2 of our Ultimate Tony Stark Inspired Workshop Series. Computers and design are a big part of Tony Stark’s Workshop. Of course Tony has the robotic artificial intelligence J.A.R.V.I.S. to help him get things done, or perhaps mostly to clean up the...
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by Bob Warfield | Blog, Workshop and Storage
We’ve all seen photos of unbelievably spectacular garages filled with exotic cars. Some of them are more like museums or theme parks than garages. Jay Leno and Ralph Lauren both have amazing facilities of this kind. But let’s say that in addition to...
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by Bob Warfield | Blog, CNC Projects, Workshop and Storage
Shops can never have too much storage, and keeping them neat is often a function of whether you have enough storage. Everything in its place assumes there is a place for everything. I like to buy rolling tool chests into workbenches and other shop furniture....
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by Bob Warfield | Blog, Tools and Techniques, Workshop and Storage
I had a bad day in the shop today because I spent a lot of time without accomplishing anything, it happens. I could tell you the whole litany but it boils down to discovering I was out of Argon for my Tig welder, that the place I rented the tank from had gone...
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