#OpenBuilds

2025-05-15

Oh no, Openbuilds goes out of business 😓

The CEO Mark Carew invented the V-Slot extrusion in 2013. We use them on the Bear because the V shape offered an easy alignment during the assembly and more flexibility for the printed parts (no support needed).

Everything must go, check them out:
us.openbuilds.com

Thank you Openbuilds and the community for those 12 years 🙏❤️

#openhardware #openbuilds #vslot #extrusion #opensource #osh #opensourcehardware

2024-01-07

Big plotter so much closer to operation after this weekend! Even with all that shelving I'll run out of room for pens. I can't wait to be up and running.

#penplotter #openbuilds #acrocnc

Open plywood shelves with large format pen plotter on top
2022-12-04

Step 1 is done. It took 32 hours of carving, 37 if you count mistakes. Next up I need to sand it to get rid of the fuzzy fibers leftover from carving, then stain it and then figure out what I want to do to protect it. #cnc #lotr #openbuilds

A live edge slab of Ash wood that has had the map of middle earth carved into it. it sits on a CNC machine.
2021-08-10

CNC milled handheld wooden sculpture. Automotive chameleon paint on poplar with stainless steel inset braille rasters.
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#flipmill #cncrouter #tapermill #taperballmill #tactileart #tactilesculpture #handheldsculpture #openbuilds #ooznest #workbeecnc #leadcnc #oxcnc

2021-08-09

CNC milled handheld wooden sculpture. Automotive chameleon paint on poplar with stainless steel inset braille rasters.
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#flipmill #cncrouter #tapermill #taperballmill #tactileart #tactilesculpture #handheldsculpture #openbuilds #ooznest #workbeecnc #leadcnc #oxcnc

2021-02-15

Really struggling to get the 1300kbs render settings to work with Mastodon and not have the video look like its been pixelated to protect its identity. New tactile braille sculpture on my open source CNC, with a lot of mess ups from the double sided tape not adhering. #GRBL #CNC #openbuilds #opensourcehardware #tactileart #tactilesculpture #cncrouter #braille #walnut #woodworking #art #sculpture #woodcarving

2019-01-02

@DistroJunkie yeah I figured that out after I made that comment when I saw your earlier posts about an old ANet printer. I started out in 2012 with a laser cut wood Printrbot Plus. Fun times! I’ve been threatening (idly) to design my own 3D printer, too. Probably from aluminum extrusions and with an Ultimaker-ish gantry (I like the corexy gantry, too). At one point I even bought some fishline and some guitar tuning pegs. They’re collecting dust. But I did build an #OpenBuilds Ox CNC router...

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