The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

I made the first version of the rotor today. The ring is 1/16" mild steel from Ace Hardware, cut out with a jigsaw. The magnet guide plate is 1/8" acrylic that was lying around. The encoder notches are placeholders. I will add many more for a high resolution angle readout. I also plan to add two ana...

Sounds awesome. Hope to see it in action. Are you planning to open source the design? I think there are many here that would like to build this for our DIY lathes. Yes, I certainly plan to describe what I'm doing in detail, and publish the drawings and code. It's too fun to keep bottled up. I have ...

Thanks. I think I can handle it. So many people don't think that you can build a motor because they're full of magnets and wires, but magnets and wires are pretty darn simple, other than their interesting field effects. So I'm planning to set it up so that I can easily change the magnet geometry and...

I was recently asked to figure out why a belt-drive converted 6N turntable had so much wow. It was converted using a low-cost packaged BLDC motor with a simple UC2625 speed controller that has no PID tuning control, so of course it has a lot of wow. This got me to thinking about how to make the plat...

I have this beast that gave me one year of faithful service making jukebox acetates, then it has sat in my garage for 10 years. Please put it to work! http://www.nixiebunny.com/presto/presto.html While you're waiting for the pictures to load, it has a Presto 1D head. It comes with two leadscrews - 1...