Hello to other obsessed CNC enthusiasts.
My name is Craig Smith, I live in Mount Eliza, which is a small outer suburb of Melbourne Australia. A boat builder by trade, I departed from building timber racing yachts and got involved in racing and building Radio Control model yachts some twenty years ago. Called an International One Metre.
The need to make moulds and have the patterns CNC milled steered me towards finally getting a little CNC mill made by Hercus in Australia. Used as a training mill in tech colleges, it has an old ANCA control which basically requires the G Code punched in via the input keyboard.
That was fun for about two seconds. And now, like most people on the forum, I have opted to convert to Mach. I am going with Mach4 and the Ethernet Smooth Stepper. I have the MB2 Break out Board from CNCRoom in Thailand and for my front panel I/O, I have a PoKeys 57E.
Needless to say, I sometimes question my sanity with the amount of different topics that have to be learned and mastered. But it is a fascinating journey and not difficult to see why so many have the bug. Lua is the thing that is currently doing my head in. But I am sure no one else has trouble with that…….
I look forward to being able to help someone else one day, that way that I have gleaned so much from the likes of DazTheGas and others. What legends these guys are, hey. Thanks to you all for being a part of it. Otherwise guys like myself with little to no idea, just wouldn’t stand a chance.
Great to be a part of it.
Craig Smith