Manual and CNC lathe - 2-axis ELS

[@WillemFick]

Absolutely bloody amazing! Love it!

[@RobytheFlorentine]

you did such a fantastic job that you have inspired me to try by myself. I will do it on a slightly bigger lathe and for now with one only motor. I have to tell you that the design of the controller is better than of a profesional company. Very well done. In my opinion you might contact one of this lathe companies and do a deal with them. Bravo. Best regards from Florence, Italy

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Thank you 😀 I might have a hard time selling anything to companies though when all my designs and code are open source 😀

[@RobytheFlorentine]

@@MaximKachurovskiy You are right, but it could be an idea. For example you pick the company of your lathe. They would be surly interested in selling a lathe with a ELS that would make them quite competitive. You can tell them that you make a package that suits PERFECTLY their lathe, and provide the ready kit for them. Sorry if I do YOUR business, but it would so nice for you as you have put so much effort. Ah,ah,ah...now the business man is speaking out of me 🙂

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

@@RobytheFlorentine it's all under MIT license so feel free to turn on your inner business man 😉 Be warned though that I myself haven't been able to make any profit after all these years 😄

[@RobytheFlorentine]

@@MaximKachurovskiy Hi, I would never dare to use a design made of another youtuber like me. BUT I would be glad if maybe one day you CAN do a deal with a company as you deserve it. I will go on and follow your works. Bravo. And if you come to Florence let me know so that I show you the city and we drink a coffe toghether 🙂

[@dracador]

Very cool project! If the controller also adjusts the motor speed, you could have the same cuttingspeed at different diameters.

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Thanks! There are 6 unused GPIO pins (2x4 terminals) on the back, since it's open-source you can make one of them control the motor e.g. via PWM 👍

[@electronicgearbox]

Congrats, very nice job, I know the amount of work it represents.

[@user-oh8pi5wy7k]

Максим 🤝. Снимаю шляпу. Всегда радуешь.

[@JordyP89]

Mate! Great work and next on my wish list from Australia. Would be good to add on your website what’s included/what we also need to get in the way of an encoder that works best for you. I can make and adapt from what you provided, as I intend to add a joystick as well, but you may increase your customer base for those that aren’t quite capable of extrapolating and making things work. I was going to make something like this for myself but for the price you’re offering, I think would be far more cost-effective grabbing one of yours.

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Thanks! You're right, there's a lot to be done in terms of documentation - we'll get there :) A joystick will fit nicely in the 2 remaining terminals. It's supposed to be cost-effective for everyone to have some people to specialize :) Nice Shopify store you got there!

[@JordyP89]

Just ordered one! Keen to have a play.

[@Kaschmarik86]

Love your work mate keep it up

[@HM-Projects]

Nice, coming along really well.

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Hope to match a fraction of your power one day 🔥

[@HM-Projects]

@@MaximKachurovskiy not complicated, once you build the core features it's just a matter of adding the menu and canned cycles for various operations. You seem to have most of the commonly used ones implemented already 👍

[@apchunter464]

привет, а можно ли к твоему контроллеру добавить джойстик? мне нравится твое решение тем что можно G коды запускать и нравится решение из России с джойстиком но как я понял там нельзя ЧПУшить, только простые задачи запрограммированные уже заранее, но настраиваемые

[@ParsMaker]

nice work , but seems like the tool does not back enough from the thread and it remove some material as it back to start point , for sure it just a parameter and you simply can change the value in your code and improve it , you should build cnc for next project 😇

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Yes, nice catch, it's a matter of operation setup - so called DOWN limit - I set it exactly at the part which caused the cutting on return. A solution is to just set it e.g. 1mm away from the part. CNCs for the win :)

[@drpipe]

superb

[@hedning003]

Maxim - i just have to know( i have your old els for one axis) have you changed to ball screw for the carrigde? acme-threads have a bir of "slop" in it so ballscrews woud be better

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Hi @hedning003, no, I considered it but decided to make a separate lathe on linear rails and with ball screws instead.

[@redspecial62]

Hi, great work, fantastic looking product, are you shipping to UK any time soon?

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Thanks! Now shipping to UK as well.

[@RobytheFlorentine]

fantastic

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@0000Vlad0000]

Цікава концепція. Це вже не балалайка, а справжній інструмент. Подяка за відкритий проект.

[@azinfidel6461]

Well done.

[@barnaul64]

Максим, сама разработка контроллера великолепна, но почти всё, кроме нарезки резьбы и конуса, просто не к чему, абсолютно не расчитано на производство деталей в большом количестве, так как оси уже управлаються моторами, легче создавать УП и резать детали десятками и сотнями, даже для изготовления одной какой-то более менее сложной детали через управление твоим контроллером займёт больше времени, чем созданная на компе УП, а в основном конечно респект

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

В новой версии есть возможность легко создавать, сохранять и запускать полный цикл обработки детали, посмотрите последние видео про lathecode

[@barnaul64]

@@MaximKachurovskiy Посмотрел, хотя я больше по фрезеровки (ЧПУ), токарный есть, но не оцифрован :) , но отдаю должное, здорово, Gruß aus Weißenthurm

[@SharafV]

Super! You realized good idea and have a lot for progress. Do you have plan to get command to motor board?

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Thanks! Not sure I understand your question, can you please elaborate?

[@SharafV]

@@MaximKachurovskiy The process starts when you turn the potentiometer (resistor). You set your engine RPM every time. Do you think set RPM from your board and start from your board?

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

@@SharafV it's actually nice to keep those things independent since you can speed up or down or pause the cut any time with a big familiar potentiometer. It makes sense to stop the motor on command from the controller when the operation is done though, will think about it 👍

[@jorgevillanueva583]

I don’t see option for shipping to the USA on your website, planning to do anytime soon?

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Sorry, this looks like a geo-location problem, can you please try picking the country at the bottom of the page on kachurovskiy.com/ manually?

[@tutinek69]

Hi Maxim, watching your channel for some time. I like your projects very much. Now waiting for my RC210E-600 lathe coming from China. There is no HW available at your site. Old one sold out and H4 not present. I would like to upgrade from the single axis to your H4 controller, but will I have to do all the HW stuff myself? Another question: The chinese controller has combined display for the RPMs and leadscrew parameters. How shall I combine it with H4? Keep the Chinese controller for RPMs and tap the signal from encoder to H4 while keeping the signal from encoder to the chinese controller, so that it gets what it needs to display the RPMs. Thank you in advance for help.

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Hi @tutinek69! Thank you. I'm only shipping to 8 countries so sadly looks like I won't be able to sell one to you yet. On hardware, I'm selling just the controller - you might be able to reuse rotary encoder from your lathe and the stepper motor. Not sure if you'd be able to reuse the stepper driver - sometimes they are integrated into the main board and can't be controlled externally. H4 has the RPM display but I agree it's nice to have it on that top display. Perhaps you'd manage to connect one encoder to both controllers? That'd be a bit risky of course, some kind of electrical failure could take out all of them. At least make sure that encoder operates at 5V. Cheers!

[@tutinek69]

@@MaximKachurovskiy Thank you Maxim. I will need some tinkering with the new lathe. This will take some time anyway. Then I hope there will be some way to get the controller.

[@android4cg]

Nice! Any possibility to support also free form based on dxf or svg line? E.g. to mill chess figure?

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Yes, this will be possible eventually - I already have basic GCode support over USB.

[@JoeMalovich]

Why would anybody ever use anything else on their budget CNC lathe project? Basically a CNC controller with a bunch of in your face canned operations!

[@paumasip]

hi maxim, really nice work, do you sell them? those are not on you online shop.

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Hi @paumasip, I do - but only deliver to certain countries, if you're not in one of them then Shopify doesn't show the product, try changing the country at the bottom of the page

[@TheKelikat]

ну ты блин мэнил конкретно руский мэнил. первое новое видео по теме и оно от мэнила

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Привет! Извини, не понял твой коммент :)

[@domenicobianchi4989]

on your site I don't see H4 nor the price ù Thank you

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Sadly that means that I can't ship it to your country yet - hope to add Germany to the list of supported countries soon though.

[@domenicobianchi4989]

@@MaximKachurovskiy ok can i know at least the selling price Thank you

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

@@domenicobianchi4989 it varies a bit - I used to sell for 99 euro, now it's 119 - perhaps the price will drop again at some point. Free shipping :)

[@domenicobianchi4989]

@@MaximKachurovskiy quando pensi di spedire in ITALIA? grazie

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

@@domenicobianchi4989 sorry, no exact timeline for now, could be this year.

[@n_nab8265]

Для чего предназначены ещё две оси?

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Можно подключить ещё что-то на вход или выход - джойстик, мотор, датчик - и добавить поддержку в коде, благо он открыт.

[@alainlepilliez5265]

why no delivery in France?

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Working on it :) We have so many laws in Europe...

[@user-oh8pi5wy7k]

Доброго. И всё же как приобрести этот блок управления? С Уважением.

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Привет! В продаже на сайте kachurovskiy.com но к сожалению доставка не во все страны мира.

[@user-oh8pi5wy7k]

@@MaximKachurovskiyно там такого блока не вижу.

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

@@user-oh8pi5wy7k это значит что по вашему адресу не смогу доставить :( Внизу страницы можно выбрать страну

[@VoidedWarranty]

Idea: cut knurling

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Cut multi-start thread right-to-left, then left-to-right :-D

[@n_nab8265]

Максим Вы можете продать этот контроллер с доставкой в Казахстан?

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Привет! Да, добавил Казахстан в список.

[@n_nab8265]

@@MaximKachurovskiy Спасибо!

[@user-mk7gm8hb6j]

Добрый день Максим а можно ли сделать интерфейс программы на русском языке Казахста

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

@@user-mk7gm8hb6j там всего несколько слов на английском, верю что вы быстро разберётесь. Русских символов в моих дисплеях нет, только японские 😁

[@user-mk7gm8hb6j]

@@MaximKachurovskiy а доставка в Казахстан сколько будет стоить

[@ruslanroot]

Waste time. After N iteration you switch to grblHAL with UART pendant.

[@MaximKachurovskiy]

Here no CAD software is needed, cutting in seconds. But I plan to support GRBL over USB serial so it'd be both :)