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Well, the shop is now done and is working great. I’m sure I’ll gradually improve things, organize better, and I still need to finish installing some things, but the room itself is now complete and I’m using it regularly. It’s really great having a nice room like this to work out of! Soon, I’ll keep eating away at the rest of the basement so that Kelly can have a nice hobby room too! (She’ll even get windows!)

I’m really pleased with how everything has turned out. I might not be the best drywaller around, but it’s all functional and the drop ceiling turned out great and everything is very practical. I’m particularly pleased with how securely we were able to mount the air filtration system. I also have my awesome maple workbench installed now, which I love. So, I’ve got the big homemade workbench with all my equipment mounted, and then the nice maple workbench all clear and available for project work and assembly. It’s working out great.

Be sure to check out all the pics at http://www.chembal.com/v/projects/basement_shop/!

I recently finished making my own Maple LED Clock. It only took five tries! Check out all the details here!

Well, I’ve been playing around a lot lately with various techniques to mechanically etch PCBs, and I think I’ve finally got a good method. I’ve documented it here on my site for all to enjoy.

Here’s an example of a small board I created using my CNC router. It’s just a small test board for TI’s excellent TLC5925 LED driver IC, but it demonstrates the kind of results I’m getting with my latest fabrication methods.

Well, I made some more tweaks to my CNC Router setup over the weekend. The most exciting addition is the complete integration of my new MPG2 Jog Pendant! Some of the EMC2 HAL integration work took a little thinking, so I made a new MPG2 Jog Pendant page to get other similarly inclined EMC2 users up and running with all 4 axes. Now, if I could only get my butt in gear and finish the shop, I’d be set!