JasonPAtkins
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2010
- Location
- Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
I don’t have time to do anything about this right now, but curiosity got to me as I was looking at my saw the other day. I’ve seen some really nice looking commercial setups (TigerStop, maybe) for CNC cutting stops for chop saws, band saws, and the like. The one I saw could program multiple cuts, and then each “go” button press would cycle the stop to the next length – pretty slick. The prices were pretty impressive too! Easily justifiable for a commercial shop, I’m sure, but for my little non-profit school kind of breath taking.
The functionality there isn’t all that complicated. I’m wondering if anyone has seen a homebrew solution on an Arduino or R.Pi or something like that? It wouldn’t even need to be that accurate (in terms of normal CNC accuracy in the thousandths, I mean) to be very useful. Has anyone rolled their own?
At the very least, I want to get a movable, lockable stop that at least reads on an embedded tape, like the fence on a table saw, but the computerized idea would be pretty cool!!
The functionality there isn’t all that complicated. I’m wondering if anyone has seen a homebrew solution on an Arduino or R.Pi or something like that? It wouldn’t even need to be that accurate (in terms of normal CNC accuracy in the thousandths, I mean) to be very useful. Has anyone rolled their own?
At the very least, I want to get a movable, lockable stop that at least reads on an embedded tape, like the fence on a table saw, but the computerized idea would be pretty cool!!