Just in time for the semester break our milling spindle has arrived! While the setup took us some time – in the age of 50EUR smartphones, configuring an expensive inverter via four buttons and a 5-digit display is… frustrating – we were still done faster than anticipated and had the chance to mill a first piece. Fellow robot enthusiast Philipp quickly designed a surface in Rhino that we then prepared for fabrication via SprutCAM and KUKA|prc. And while the final result may not be perfect yet, it turned out really fine for a first day with only very loosely calibrated tools and workflows that haven’t yet been finely tuned.
Thanks go out to Tom for providing electro-technical know-how, Philipp for the ultra-quick design, and of course to our student assistants Sebastian and Georg.
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