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DIY Air Variable Capacitor Part 1

Published on Sep 7, 2013 – Today at Think Schematics we are cutting the rotor and stator plates for a Air Variable Capacitor using a CNC router. The plates we designed using CamBam and then transferred to the CNC that is running EMC2 (now known as Linux CNC).

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Jig for CNC Router

This is my first project with my new CNC Router (v3.0). This is a jig to hold PCBs as they are being etched. The PCBs will be held down by double face fiberglass carpet tape.

SoftrockSDR Ensemble RXTX using HDSDR

SoftrockSDR Ensemble RXTX using HDSDR – 00:02:51 – Uploaded Jan 29, 2012 Caution the audio is a bit loud…still need to install my video editing software. I just finished the receive section, still need to build the transmit section. Once I get the transmit section completed I will upload another video…don’t worry it will have better audio/video. Check out http://kb9yig.com/ to buy this type of kit, http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/ensemble/ for building instruction. If you would like to follow me and my projects you can like me on Facebook… just search for Think Schematics.

My First CNC Router

My First Home Built CNC Router – 00:01:18 – Uploaded Jan 28, 2012

Here is a little time lapse video of me working on the ‘y’ axis of my second (first of my own design) CNC router.