Description
Here's what I do: I make my own tools and I've been doing that for as long as I've been able to swing a hammer. So a ready-made CNC was never going to be the ultimate for me, much like a store-bought table saw wouldn't be.
Even if the Stepcraft CNC performed perfectly, it was still my intention to eventually build my own.
The build was an interesting challenge and also a learning experience. I designed and 3D printed a number of the parts, including the couplers that connect the ball screws to the new motors.
I reused the X and Z axis, mostly unchanged, from the Stepcraft, but replaced all of the steppers with larger closed loop ones. I changed the control electronics and the software that drives it to Mach 3.
In effect I now have a machine that runs flawlessly and if it does break or do something wrong, I can fix it.
My "cringey" politics isn't political - it's a worldview - values - an operating philosophy.
As I've said in previous videos, I have no interest in the circus that is modern day politics. And I believe that a major leap forward in societal progress could be achieved by outlawing politics as we know it today.
That would start by taking away the bulk of the power that modern politics has hoarded and giving control back to the individual.
Of course I'm realistic enough to know that'll never happen, but it's important to point out to misguided people that their "non-cringey" policies are the root cause of most of the problems we have today.
Take away the freedom for the individual to act and you take away the economic progress that comes from it, as aptly shown in the disparity between the US and Europe.
Canada is and has been on an express train to hell that was accomplished with the same policies that have tied an anchor to progress in Europe. If I were 15 years younger I'd already be gone.
The truth is that the US built our modern world and ushered in unprecedented material prosperity throughout the world. Minus the US - if the US never happened - Canada wouldn't be much different from rural Russia 100 years ago. Naturally, we arrogantly take all of that for granted and actually resent the success the US has had, acting like it's no big deal or putting on air of superiority that are completely groundless.
The US took the concept of individual freedom and ran with it, and pulled in innovative and enterprising people who knew how to put that freedom to good use. Of course that's grinding down as well, as more of the "non-cringey" policies that stymied progress in Europe and Canada have crept in.
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