From Blender to the CNC: cut lists out of Home Builder, and the VCarve gadgets level up
Design a kitchen in Blender, push one button, get a shop cut list — and hand the parts straight to VCarve to nest and cut. Plus a round...
Russell Borton — mechanical project engineer
Sawdust & Silicon: The Builder's Journal
Twenty years of precision manufacturing, automation, and the software that keeps it running. This is where I write down how the builds actually go — Cad/cam and LinuxCNC, home-lab servers, embedded hardware, and the odd deep end.
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We won the Michelin Hackathon with Power Apps and SharePoint
Two days, a low-code toolkit, and a project-tracking app built on Power Apps and SharePoint. Ours was the only team with a running app at the end —...
Two websites, two shops, and a VCarve toolbox: what's been on the bench
A machine shop got a real website, a farmhouse-cute shop got a storefront, and VCarve Pro is learning to nest cabinet doors and boxes on its own. Here's...
Starting the log
Why this site exists, and what's going to show up here.
From WinCNC to LinuxCNC: rewiring the router and automating the tool rack
Why the 4-axis gantry needed a new brain, how it moved from WinCNC to LinuxCNC, and building a rack tool changer that doesn't crash — with help from...