Always seeking cheaper ways to source materials to cut with the CNC, I came across some tutorials on building a charcoal fired aluminum foundry. Some external resources if you want to try your hand at it! http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/bucketfurnace1.html http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-foundry-and-sand-cast-aluminum/ http://www.instructables.com/id/My-Second-Aluminium-Foundry/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Aluminum-Foundry/ Be extra careful if you decide to embark on this project! Here are some photo’s [...]

Here we’re cutting the stator plates that will hold our coils, and showing off the coil winding jig on the variable speed drill press.

I’ve been putting a lot of time and effort into fixing bugs in my caffeine library, as well as rewriting L-Script to use it (the original reason I started the caffeine library to begin with.) Fortunately, things have been going well and it’s running really fast. I hope to get an alpha version online soon [...]