How to make a little bit of money running a home shop: Start with a lot of money.

Wait? We're also gonna have a robot rebelion? 2020 just gettin better

Until the robot rebellion in 2020/21 (boilermaker so kinda half deaf) Is 2020 *heavy breathing*

Sometimes when I drink to much I blackout and don't know where I am. Couple of minutes later I realize I'm a router. Such is a life of router.

1:14 considering how this year is going so far I wouldn’t be to surprised if we did have a robot overlords by the end of it

I don't own a single machine and I've watched every single video and subscribed.

I love your videos, Tony! Ya pushed me over the edge and now I have a Mill and a Lathe -- and I'm loving life. Thanks man! I hope to return the favor someday. Cheers!

The best teachers are the ones who know their sh*t... but also know that they don't know sh*t :) Thanks for the lesson!

1:12 at this point I'm starting to believe that tot is an actual time traveller

Ýou've made two videos about touch probes, handling touch probes, inserting touch probes into tool holders, and robots. Not a single butt probe joke, dong joke, Fisto joke, or just making the probe go up and down into a hole repeatedly. You have incredible self-control.

not only did you get me into welding, i also now have a misplaced sense of pride about owning 3 vises.

Through a crazy chain of events, I found myself watching this video for the first time tonight while lying in bed. There's a robot arm at the end of my bed. The comment about the robot rebellion of 2020 really got me, man. And no, I can't tell you why I have a robot arm in my bedroom, I'm under NDA.

Excellent video! Well explained... I can really appreciate the time and work you put into one of these videos... but the work really sets you apart from the normal videos one sees on youtube... it was a pleasure to watch. Great job and thanks for the videos!

This is excellent, and it is mindblowing that you made this wonderfully edited video so fast. You are a phenomenal educator; not wanting to overenflate your ego.

Great stuff Tony, I think your vids are really cool, great engineering knowledge sharing, and always fun to watch with your creative video skills and humour. Thanks. Ade

"...maybe had an automatic tool changer." You about made me spit my beer.

The rollerball "mouse" is a brilliant idea for this kind of setup. Entertaining and interesting as usual Mr. Tony. Can tell this to is one of your favs.

I sort of was aware of work offsets beyond G54, but thanks to your clear, practical explanation, I am now a CNC expert, like you. And by expert, I mean able to identify a CNC machine over the majority of the general public or media. Now you are forcing me at gunpoint to go find your probe making/programming/using videos.

Always so enjoyable to watch. Excellent man...

Not only are you in 'with the young hip kids', but you also don't make it a boys club and thats really cool. Thanks for being including and informative, G.

Very well explained Tony, that made good sense. I will one day have a cnc router, mark my words

Nice, "I'm hip to their jiv...."

"I dont 100% know what I am doing" 😂

This man has the DNA of a dyed-in-the-wool UI designer.

THE ROBOT REBELLION OF 2020????!!!!!! Just when we thought 2020 couldn't get any worse. Come on TOT you gotta save us from this one.

as a seeker of knowledge You have a unique way of explaining things that at least I can understand Thais Tony

love your CNC videos Tony.... more... more...more (actually love ALL your videos)... but especially CNC

At the going rate, a robot uprising this year wouldn't be suprising

Some guys like to make things difficult - they get maybe 2X 10 or so minutes of eyeball and brain time and then get put in 'that' bin - like 4eva. You however are a gem my friend. I would buy you a few beers anytime. So consider my humble but honest thanks as an IOU on you pick how many beers on me . SO if you are ever in Sydney and feel like a few beers and a steak - let me know. I enjoy every video you graciously put out and appreciate the intelligence as well as the humour and effort you put into it all. Pete

Thank you for teaching us about how you touch your probe

This was VERY helpful for me on my homemade CNC, THANKS!

The router knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn't, or where it isn't, from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance sub-system uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the router from a position where it is, to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position where it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event of the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has required a variation. The variation being the difference between where the router is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too, may be corrected by the GEA. However, the router must also know where it was. The router guidance computance scenario works as follows: Because a variation has modified some of the information the router has obtained, it is not sure just where it is, however it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subracts where it should be, from where it wasn't, or vice versa. By differentiating this from the algebraic sum og where it shouldn't be, and where it was. It is able to obtain a deviation, and a variation, which is called "air"

I know I know I've mentioned this before, but what great video production work.

you're a funny guy. Thanks for the lessons and the smiles.

I needed this... thanks!

Thanks! It's my favorite Star Trek shirt.

Just what I needed, thanks Tony.

thank you sir you're the man and I appreciate you commenting on my shirt that's very observant of u and I thought no one noticed

It’s amazing how much machinists logic is exactly the same as land surveying.

Nicely done Tony! ATB, Robin

As if 2020 hasn't been enough of a train wreck, we have the Robot Rebellion to look forward to (posted on April 2)

Purely amazing!

Damn that mach 4 touch screen is frigging NICE!! I want !

still got 2 months for the 2020 robot rebellion, I won't be surprised at this point, this season has gone every which way.

hey thanks, that's a new shirt I'm wearing

Tony is back and the world is great again. However, I am really missing the music, funny as feck graphics and other scary biscuits stuff!! Many thanks for sharing. Kindest regards. Joe.

I learned so much from this thank you!

"robot rebellion of 2020" The W h a t ?

I know this is a comment on a two year old video. Thanks for providing me with entertainment that makes me feel like I've done something. Someone commented about how do you know if your probe is still accurate. I'd say that's what G53 is for. With the orientation of your probe, you should probably be able to pick up on the back right corner of your table (or something premanently mounted to it) and compare it to recorded machine (G53) coordinates. That location should always be the same. If you check it and it's not the same, your probe offset changed. It would be most accurate if you started at the same machine coordinates every time. Thanks again. Just subscribed. Watched everything from the original no voice over tig pedal until this point and still going.

There was a great camera plugin for mach 3 (and possibly mach 4) You get yourself one of those cheap $10 "borescope" cameras from ebay, make a little clamp to stick it on your Z axis, then get it lined up so top of the image is Y+ etc. First time out the gate you spot drill a small hole in some scrap, center the camera on the hole and you've got your offset, whack that in the plugin and from then on all you've got to do is jog the camera over a corner or whatever and hit go. It was certainly good to within 200 microns or so, which was great for the sort of work I was doing, which was mostly contouring around print that had already been mounted on the board. If you printed 2 reference marks you could either use them to square the stock (pivot around the origin) or use them to calculate G code scale / rotation provided you weren't overly reliant on arcs.

Still running Mach3 on all my machines, thinking I should make the jump to Mach4 after seeing this. Thanks for the great video!

I'm the one with 4 vises! Hahaha so great thanks for another great vid Tony!

Great video Thanks - think I will check out the CNC basics video

0:00 'that's a nice shirt u have' Me, lying naked with my blanket in my bed: 😕

G53, sweet G53 :)

It's finally the year of the robot uprising!

The Robot Rebellion of 2022? This guy time travels too?!

Just wanted to say thank you for sharing all the videos you have posted. You have a very natural way of communicating the message and ideas. It's a real shame more teachers didn't display these qualities. You have had your welder for some time now was wondering if your still enjoying it ? Was thinking of importing one to my home town of London uk.

Great voice audio on this one Tony!

That's an impressive touchscreen

Oh man, half way through 2020... it sucks already! This robot rebellion is just what we need!

tony: thats a nice lookin shirt you got! me, not wearing a shirt: *sweats nervously*

Hey Tony, I was hoping this was the Mach 3/4 comparison, I'm looking forward to that as soon I will need to get one or other. Cheers

You and Avom will make an incredible Colab

the robot rebellion already ...and gave us the covids..... great video as usual

I think I laughed all through this. Another amazing video. I have to watch it again though. All my laughing made me miss actual content. Not complaining, I like a good joke, I'll just have to watch it again.

Is the probe removable some way? Looks like it would be in the way all the time.

Thank you, that was easy to understand and now I’m smarter and can actually use those mysterious buttons

Take a look at G28.1 and G28 for setting your G54 offset. Also you can do G10 L20 X__ Y__ Z__ P1 where you define how far off your probe is from where you want to be. Like if your probe was 50mm to the right, 10mm back, and 5mm too high... then you could do a G10L20 X50 Y-10 Z5 P1... and your machine would be like "Oh... that's where it is..." so then you do a G0 X0Y0Z0 and you are there... presuming you didn't hit anything.

The robot rebellion of 2020... Another one for the apocalypse bingo

never change, man

Great videos! I would like to know more about the design of your CNC machine. I am in the process of building one.

The robot rebellion of 2020 Me: haha good one.... hol up wait a minute

So the thing I don't get is why not make a small plastic holder for the touch probe that fits into the spindle? The plastic would insulate the probe from the grounded chassis, and you wouldn't have to bother with offsets (other than the diameter of the probe). Is it just because that would require a tool change?

god damnit tony, you're cracking me too many eggs with this humor omelet

5:35 XD I really like his style of cutting the videos, with all these interupted sentences :)

Watching the video now for the first time, i had to pause it at the robot rebellion of 2020. I couldn't stop laughing (started at the patent findings this morning).

Tony good stuff how about diving in all the way with a cool series?

when you made that robot rebellion of 2020 joke you had no idea what was coming. LMAO

We are about to have a robot uprising too!?!? Gahh

awesome video thank you so much, helps me alot,

Thank you..!!! I feel learn-id..:)

"You're likely not in a production environment." Correct, I'm in my bedroom eating chips.

The John Saunders mini pallet!! 😃😃

Great video, great explanation, as always. Almost makes me want to mess with CNC, but really I ought to get my Bridgeport running and the DRO fixed on my lathe first... May have to unsubscribe to keep me on track. Nah...

I'll be damned. You were right about the great robot uprising of 2020!! 🤯 How did you know it was coming??

thank u for the the vid, please if you can upload more frequently

A robot rebellion would be an appropriate way to end 2020

so many G-spots

Still waiting on that robot uprising, humanity has had their time.

Nice usage of Saunders boy scout target practice fixture plate thing

4:32 I thought the logo of the cnc software you where using was a joke until i looked it up and its really a thing.

Tony I hate to tell you but the exciting robot rebellion turned out to be a global pandemic. Similarly apocalyptic feeling though so props on that

The rebellion is almost upon us

"Until the robot rebellion of 2020 " 👀

Tony you may already know this. However to take it a step further with offsets. You can use the (#) macro to probe off of. Thus stating to the controls probe (#) if X-0 and if Y -0 = (specified amount), run specified offset. Saying simply saw blacks maybe .002-.004 diff....from each other. Or even further off. But that can be preprogrammed in your Marcos. Just an idea say you can just simply prove and run. VS probing finding your black is off then re-zeroing.

Thanks for the video.

LOL... "sup G".... I spit my cigar out of my mouth laughing at that... LOL

This Old Tony: That makes you about teen times smarter than me.

Thanks for adding the details. Had no idea you could mod the HMI in Mach...is it limited to your Pro 4 version? Nice to see that Big-O' Dell touch screen, must be handier than the pocket on my shirt...how did you know. Another extraordinary video Tony, Thanks Much!