Commission’s Keeping Me Busy

Posted: 10/07/2012 in General News
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Sorry again for nearly another 10 days between posts. I’ve been sick, busy and making a lot of progress all at the same time. Still fine tuning the skills of the basic CNC work, but as you can tell I’m starting to get the hang of it. What would have taken hours to do, now cuts out in a matter of minutes, however the free time is eaten up by the design work that is required. I’ve come to realize that what will make you good and fast at cutting is how intimate your knowledge with CAD is. It’s getting there, but still has a ways to go.

The above pic is the case I cut today for Nintendork from the MBB forums. Though I’m not sure if this is the case I’ll send because of the fact that I messed up a bit with the D-pad and had to FrankenCase in a replacement because I of it. This has caused a lot of sanding and I think I might just order in another case and save this one for a different project. Still deciding but we’ll see how the finished product looks and if it’s no good than I’ll get another case for it.

I’ve also made a lot of progress with Tchay’s casings and the first one will be on it’s way to Hollywood CA, on Tuesday.

All in all that’s pretty much what I’ve been doing but there is a lot more on the way so stay tuned.

Getting up to speed

Posted: 09/29/2012 in General News
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Wow, 10 days without a post. Sorry about that, there has been a lot going on! So everyone knows what’s up, I’ve been in the process of working on 3 different jobs all at once, though a majority of the time has been spent on the PCB and case design of the SNES-001 Advance II which I should be officially starting this week.

Basically I’ve been putting a lot of time into playing with CAD and in doing so, also getting the component outlines and measurements into the computer for future use. Every drawing I do now has some form of base component, like D-pad and tact switch holes which I can use for future designs without actually spending all the time to design them from scratch.

Currently I’m in the process of cutting out a test template for Jonathan Shine for his Envision clones. This will allow him to get the feel for the placement of the buttons and give him time to make some changes before we vacuum form and cut the casings for real.

Nintendork is shipping the components for his portable N64 to me today and I’ll be cutting and assembling that for him in the next couple weeks or so.

As mentioned before, I should be in contact with the potential buyer of the SNES-001 Advance II in the next few days and once that get’s rolling I’ll start up a work log topic over at MBB. This will be a far superior system to the original as the new equipment I have to work with allows that.

I’ll keep you updated and hopefully more than I have been recently. Oh, you should check out the video to see a funny oops. Still learning and I’m glad this happened on a test piece!

Printed Circuit Boards, Yeah I can make those!

Posted: 09/19/2012 in General News
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Through time and patience can come many rewards. After spending over 6 hours yesterday getting my CAD drawing done up correctly, today I both had a successful test and actual circuit board engraved. This has helped to bolster the confidence in my new found capabilities and my tiny little router is holding it’s own!

Now with that said, I still need to invest in a bit more tooling for it as most of these round circles need to have a hole drilled into the center of them for the actual project, however I do not have the proper bits to do so yet. I have found some nice 1/8th in carbide drill sets that will do the job nicely as they go from .03mm up to .2mm which will cover the range I need to drill this micro holes accurately.

But have a view of the video below to see this in action. Updates will be sparse for the next couple of weeks as my part time jobs are pretending to be full time, but that’s ok because I’m in need of the income! But at nights there is still plenty of design work to do and I will remain quite busy.

So, talk with you soon and if you have any questions or find a need for these types of services, please let me know. I’m taking on jobs as they come so I’ll gladly make time for yours!

GeneBoy Reloaded Still for Sale!

Posted: 09/16/2012 in General News
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Still up for grabs people! This is the only one of its kind and is a great bargain! I’d still like $225 for it but if you have a reasonable offer, I’ll gladly give it consideration. Please let me know, all proceeds go to help make me less poor…it’s a sad story. hehehe.

Case making to a new level!

Posted: 09/16/2012 in General News
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In a time span of less than a week, my knowledge of CNC work has grown over 100% and I still don’t feel like I’ve scratched the surface. As you can see by the video, I did my first test cut on a vacuum-formed casing. The results were nothing less than perfect in terms of how the machine performed. I had a few errors in my design which resulted in the cutting of right buttons twice making them far too big, but that was not the machines fault.

This was cut in about a 6 or 7 minute span and would have been only 5 had I had my drawing done correctly. But the cuts and the placement came out beautifully! This really is an exciting step for me as it gives me the confidence that I can take my work to the next level. Time alone will tell how far this goes, but I have to say that I’m more excited by today’s results than I’ve been with anything for awhile! (Modding wise of course).

I’ll have more projects coming up shortly (like today) that further shows the capabilities of this machine, software and user! Stay tuned!

My Router Has Arrived!

Posted: 09/11/2012 in General News
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Though  I still do not know how to use it properly (and this pic doesn’t even have the axis motors on it yet) you can be rest assured that tomorrow I’ll be playing with this for some time, making sure everything is in its place. There will be a learning curve like anything else and even though it’s a small starter unit, I’ll get the basics of this and the software down before getting into anything bigger. So stay tuned for the next couple of weeks as cool things will be happening soon enough.

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