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Originally Posted by s_forbes
Sounds like fun! Our team would do anything for a CNC milling machine (at least I would). I don't think our team has had a chance to do any serious programing to ours yet; right now it is a safety hazard and needs to be cleaned up.
Keep us posted!
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Safety Hazard - do tell!!
We've started a program that will just read in ch3 and ch4 from the vex transmitter for simple FWD/BWD/LFT/RT and those angles between, but at some point we'll work in some rotation code - which is the tough part. We've made our class an ROP class which came with some initial funding - enough for a CNC Jr., BandSaw, Sander, Cordless Drills, trailer, some metal and of course a set of Mercanums to play with. The CNC really opens up some possibilities and raises just as many issues. It's easy to get into a mindset that the CNC can make anything you want - when in reality there is still a lot of work and time that goes into making each part.