Another fantastic video. I love the fact that you showed not only the machining process, as well as the Arduino side of things, but the finished product as well. Great job John. Keep it up!

One suggestion: check for qty >= set, so that if it double-counts by accident, it'll stop. Otherwise, it'll keep going until the counter overflows, or you run out of screws (in which case it'll never stop vibrating).

The more I watch your channel the more I'm wanting to buy a Tormach! Great project.

I just finished cutting up the steel for my saw stand and sat down to relax with some KZfaq. Seeing your fixture plate has me rethinking the whole thing. Ah, crap!

I could watch a CNC machine to its thing all day long. 1:44-6:58 is mesmerizing.

I wish I didn't have add. I've been trying to learn this stuff forever. Your videos really make this easier for me.

Vibe bowls are used to feed buttons to be sewn on shirts. Such an incredible piece of automation tech

"It's close, but ten thou is ten thou..." I need that on a shirt

When you spot the right-most hole at 15:37, it sure looks like the work deflected down a bit.

Great video. I love the overlay of the info for CAM feeds and speeds. That bowl looks pretty tempting to make.

Hi John. May I make a suggestion? Add a superbright white LED and a piezo-buzzer. Then, when it reaches the count - after turning off the vibro-bowl- have it flash the LED and the piezo-buzzer until someone comes over to reset it. This way you can start it and leave. When you hear he buzzer or see the blinking LED, you know your parts have been counted out. That way, you (or someone else) doesn’t have to stand there and baby-sit the thing. HTH! :)

Nice John! Everytime I watch your videos it motivates me to try and think harder Everytime I go to work. That's why I usually watch your videos before I go to work

Quick tip: I've noticed on a lot of your parts you are using what seems to be a 90° spot drill. You want to start your drills on the point, not the cutting edges. If you are using regular jobber drills with a 118° angle, use a 120° spot drill. In aluminum it's not a big deal but in steels, especially stainless, you will wear a grove in your cutting edge where it starts on the edge the 90° spot drill left, if that makes sense.

Amazing work. Makes me feel undervalued as a welder fabricator.

That’s awesome, probably one of my favorite videos so far!

Love the new website. This is such a great mix of areas. Thank you for your amazing content!

Fantastic project John! The new website looks great!

One thing that I prefer to do with a ball mill is to make sure that it always leads into the work. I never let it plunge into the work, this helps with tool longevity and gives a smoother finish. I don't how to do this in Fusion though, I do all my serious CAM work in NX and use Fusion at home for minor hobby stuff. In NX I would change the non-cutting moves to extend the tool path outside of the cut area to give a nice smooth lead in. Perhaps I could poke around in Fusion to see how to accomplish the same thing. Anyhow,, nice project, it's always fun to see what you're doing next =)

Amazing video. Love the fantastic content and the audino code!! Really enjoy watching the large tool come in and remove so much material

I have a phrase for I have finished the CAD and am about to start the CNC mill, I say; "Let's chuck some chips"!

John, I’d like to see a video on soft jaws for doing a 3rd op where you would need to machine the jaws out of place to hold a part vertically.

Bowl feeders are great until you get an upside down fastener (which will often jam it, causing down time). There are alternatives (such as Seki feeders, which we use a lot at work) that don't jam with upside down fasteners but brand new at least (as a complete feeder and shooter unit for a resistance welder) they're quite pricey (several thousand dollars depending on features and other factors), so in a different league than this. That said, nice setup!

Hello John! What a well executed project! I’m a student that is currently trying to find or make my own bowl feeder for screws so I was curious to see where you got yours. Thanks, Chris.

Vibratory bowl feeders are awesome! I worked in commercial aircraft manufacturing for a while and saw quite a few. They are super mesmerizing, especially when you can dump different sizes, lengths, and types of fasteners in and it automatically sorts them! So cool. Great job on this one! Super cool project and good use for an Arduino. I am guessing you have a specific application for this related to one of your products? Automating tasks like this gets me super excited for some reason

Couple remarks on the Arduino code: - You are reading the interruptor input as an analog value using the AD converter, and only count if you get exactly 0 on it. Any little bit of noise or leakage will probably screw that up for you, since even if you ground the pin absolutely solid, your AD might sometimes read 1 or so, it just isn't that precise. You should be reading that as a digital input instead, since the interruptor you selected is actually providing a nice open collector TTL signal, with any signal conditioning necessary done internally. - The point about double counting someone else made doesn't really apply, since you increase the counter by 1 at most per loop iteration and you compare during each iteration as well. You should keep the check at ">=" however, since it is needed this way for my next point: - You keep counting pulses even if the motor is turned off. Since you only reset the counter when the selected quantity is reached, if for example someone screws around with the thing and generates some pulses, there is no way to reset it to zero for the next run except by completely resetting the whole circuit. I think you should instead reset the counter when the run is started by the user, this way you make sure you always start at zero, plus you can see on the display how many screws have actually been counted by the last cycle until you start another one. One thing you need in this case though is a variable to track if the motor is currently running, so that you don't try to turn it off every loop iteration while the quantity hasn't been reset yet (turning it off again and again wouldn't actually hurt anything, since the pin just keeps being low, but the delay each time would hurt UI responsiveness I think).

You're one hell of a risk taker John. 3:40 I know you said 0.010" for what stock is left, but you made your Z0.0 the top of the part. It's rough stock, that shit is always varying. I would have made my Z0.0 the bottom of the part. There's more control there. That way, if you see a number 0.080" or less, it will hit those jaws guaranteed. Awesome video. :)

So rad. Great work as always john, love the new website.

Hi John. Great video with lots of interesting content. I guess us old timers know what tool 31 is by now, but people new to the channel would probably like you to tell them what kind of tool it is. Keep up the fantastic work and congrats on what looks like it's going to be a VERY useful website. Ken

Hey John! Great video but you should set your soft jaw gap to multiples of 1/8" and use parallels to keep your jaws spread with desired gap while machining to support the moving jaw all the way across. I think you ended up with the movable jaw slightly skewed because of the gage block location which resulted in uneven clamping pressure on each side of your part as there was some movement on the right hand side of it during machining.

For your Arduino code, might need to change "IF (qty == set)" to "IF (qty >= set)" just in case it drops 2 screws out in rapid succession at the end. Should still catch it and shut it off, but I am not sure how fast the PowerTail reacts. Also, might want to add some code that if it does drop an extra, turn the RGB backlight red and warn the person of an incorrect count.

Website is looking great and it is well integrated. McMaster will be calling you soon. :-)

Watch the deflection of the fixed jaw as you clamp with tall jaws like that, it caught me out using a hydraulic vice. Depending on vice pressure, the jaw deflection will vary different amounts as the bolts stretch.

CNC is so cool to watch a person make something - but very difficult to learn

Nice project John! I will definately take a look on the new website First impression, what an awesome website! I can imagine that it took quite some time to get set up.

11:34 actually, the distance is on Measure panel in the Results section

Wow! Great Episode! Thanks.

There are usually at least one or two photo interrupts in inkjet printers. Find one on the street and save some $$.

Nice video ! Very instructive ! You are a natural teacher ! I don't know if I would have machined the part however ?! Could you not just have 3D printed it since there is no real load put on it ?

Nice job, love it's functionality.

Nice project, how much of a delay is there between the time the screw is counted and it drops out of the ramp? I didn't see any programed in, but the position of the sensor is before the drop point so there's got to be some or it'll stop before the last screw drops into the bin.

One question.. Let's say you're running a 2 hour program on arduino cnc machine and you lose power for some x reason.. Do you have to start over or does arduino have some kind of protection against these things? One way would be editing the gcode I guess, but that would be quite a pain in the ass to find. Great videos, keep up the great work! :)

I wish I could give 100 "Thumbs Up!" Great vid John.

Thanks John! So cool!

So what is your plan for the screw counter? Still missing your chip break series... Would be great to see what you've been up to!

Man i love this videos!

That was close :)))) I just eaten my finger on the last raw cut!

you may get this a lot but can you edit in in screen metric units for your speeds and feeds keep up the good work

Create and sell a vibratory primer feeder for the Dillon 650/1050 and you'll have a heck of a market...currently only available (to my knowledge) on a Camdex/Ammoload and Mark 7 Revolution (big money).

Neat! You seem to be climb milling in most of your process. Is that considered the best way to work with a CNC machine? I remember being taught to cut the other way on a manual mill, though I've seen it done that way on a CNC, I wonder what the difference is.

Hi John, Nice Video! 1:03 on time line. What type of socket are you using in the Dewalt to install the socket head screws in the vice jaws? Is it a ball hex or some type of wobble socket? Getting into the socket head screws at an angle due to the limited opening in a quick manner is the challenge. I have some snap jaws that also use a smaller hex key so I will need a couple of different sizes. BTW I already own the Dewalt 12 volt drill and impact set and love it! Thanks in advance for any info you can supply. John

Is the arduous counter still in use today? It’s such a cool program and idea.

Are you using the SuperFly for the 1st facing op? Looks like it, but the video doesn't show it stationary. If so you're feed number are off. SuperFly is a 1 flute tool. 2500rpm 40ipm = .016 ipt. To get .00533ipt the tool has to have 3 flutes.

at 15:35 ish, the first spot you can see the part get pushed into the jaws from the spot drill.....

4000 rpm for the Shear Hog ... is that the best speed for the tool, or the max horsepower point for the spindle? Or something else? Put another way, what rpm would you use on a 440? I was playing with settings and had good luck at 10,000 rpm.

15:37 looks like the work moved down when the spot drill hit it.

toally awesome!

Hey John, what caused the deflection at 15:38? The soft jaws looked like they were supporting the part there, so I am a bit puzzled.

Hi John , it still being productive if I print that part at 80% of infill? I noticed the printer working back there. love the website I have no idea!

Nice project, but wouldn't weighing them be faster?

At 15:37 the complete thing moves a bit!

do you have any videos on how you go thru the process of creating these tooling recipes?

Sweet! 👍

Buen trabajo!!! :)

Hi, Could you tell me what tool do you use for facing? It is awasome.

Jaws are a bit high, they will deflect since the work is so high up... oh well :D

Hi, another nice video, any chance you can say what coolant you run in your FogBuster please? I'm using a veg based oil but it makes a mess on the machine thats a bugger to get off :(

how about more specific Arduino coding tutorials?

At 5:50 you missed a decimal place: 0.2 * 0.1875 = 0.0375 not 0.375 as you show.

Hello John! How do you plan to use this counter? Only as counter?

Are you using a bullnose end mill on those softjaws? If so, how do you get the part to lay flat, chamfered edge?

What happened at 15:36? I think the part sunk down.

When I run my shear hog approaching those settings I end up with tool pullout. Have you had similar problems? How did you overcome them?

What do you think about silent tools

Got dang it, I've wasted so much time scrolling through code. Never new about the find feature

Kindly share aurdino diagram

How much would this two parts cost?

I wan't a CNC machine so bad... I'm currently a bit under the EU stated poverty limit of income at the moment though, so.. Imma wait...

Please don't hammer down a Workpiece in Selfgripping-Jaws ( 1:22 )

Pucker factor = .01

But it's not even wendsay yet.🤣

You sold yourself short by not going for an engineering degree

First! !!

Hi John , it still being productive if I print that part at 80% of infill? I noticed the printer working back there. love the website I have no idea!

Hi John , it still being productive if I print that part at 80% of infill? I noticed the printer working back there. love the website I have no idea!

Hi John , it still being productive if I print that part at 80% of infill? I noticed the printer working back there. love the website I have no idea!