Setting up the workshop

Sebastian Stefan Schütz/ October 30, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Introduction One perk of living in the countryside is that you normally have a lot of space available. By moving to my mothers childhood home (an old farm) we now also have this luxary and decided to reporpuse the garage as a workshop. Up till now it fulfiled this job somewhat, there were pretty solid workbenches with nice hight adjustable

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Restauration of an Deutz D4006

Sebastian Stefan Schütz/ September 23, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

This might be a bit of an odd project for the quarantine time, but we did some restauration work on an old Deutz D4006 tractor. Living on an old farm has it perks (like a lot of space for machines and a workshop) and sometimes brings other advantages with it, like having a tractor. But, this good machine is from

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Open source large format CNC-machine and 3D-printer

Sebastian Stefan Schütz/ July 10, 2022/ CNC/ 0 comments

1. Introduction On our school “Birklehof” in Germany, we were offered the possibility to submit a project to the program “Micro-Maro-Mint” of the “Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung” (Baden-Wuerttemberg-Foundation). The “Micro-Macro-Mint”-program supports students interested in mathematics, informatic or engineering with up to 2500€ for their projects. After submitting our application with a first 3D-Model and a Bill of material, we got the funding. Our

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ISEL EP 1090 – Operation: Brain Swap

Sebastian Stefan Schütz/ June 20, 2022/ CNC/ 24 comments

The Situation at hand For quite some time now, we had an ISEL EP1090 standing at home, unused. Having a CNC-machine this close opens many possibilities, but in the current state of the machine, it ́s possibilities were limited, due to: It is just 2.5D (Not bad, but real 3D would have been nice) Acceleration and deceleration were catastrophic. Although

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