Digital Machinist

06/21/2023

What can you expect in the Summer 2023 issue? Read the full table of contents on our website: https://digitalmachinist.net/summer-2023/

01/04/2023

Here comes the Winter 2022 issue!

06/22/2022

Another packed issue of Digital Machinist is at the press!

03/22/2022

What can you expect to read in the Spring 2022 issue? The full table of contents is now available on our website: https://digitalmachinist.net/spring-2022/.

01/01/2022

Happy New Year, from everyone at Digital Machinist.

09/27/2021

For the cover of our Fall 2021 issue we feature a view of "A Hardinge Lathe Conversion" by Ted Armen. What else will you find in this issue? Visit our website for the complete Table of Contents: https://digitalmachinist.net/fall-2021/.

08/27/2021

It's with great sadness that I relay the news of the death of our long-time columnist and friend, Weston Bye. Wes died this August 24 at home, finally succumbing to the cancer he had been battling for the last few years.

Along with his Digital Machinist column, Wes had a number of articles published in The Home Shop Machinist. His articles included a variety of projects, some very complex, and I was always amazed at how he got it all done in time for each issue. Envisioning, designing, building, and then writing about his projects all was done while he had a full-time day job, I often wondered if he ever slept.

I was fortunate to not only be able to converse with Wes over emails and the phone, but also had the opportunity to spend time with him throughout the year, whether at hobby events or when he visited Northern Michigan on vacation. Over the years we became good friends and I always looked forward to his weekly calls. I tell people that the best part of my job is the people I get to meet and work with and Wes was at the top of that list.

Always busy and always thinking of the next project, Wes had a lot of plans for retirement but instead found himself confronted with a long and difficult battle for his health. He fought hard, with a realistic, yet positive attitude. May he rest in peace. - George Bulliss

Weston Carl Bye, just days short of age 71, died August 24, 2021 at his home in Grand Blanc, MI. He fought a courageous four-year battle with brain cancer, and succumbed just one month after being diagnosed with a second, more aggressive, brain tumor. Wes was born September 4, 1950

06/29/2021

On the press is the Summer 2021 issue! What you'll find: The Build Plate by Bob Roswick, Part Two of R.G. Sparber's "Alibre to CamBam to Centroid," Along the G-Code Way, and more!
https://digitalmachinist.net/summer-2021/

03/31/2021

Coming soon in our Spring 2021 issue, read about R. G. Sparber’s CNC process, using the Polysher system to smooth ABS 3D prints, using a DC servo with an intelligent motion controller to control a rotary table, and more!

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Volume 16, Issue 1 Here's what's in the Spring issue, which is in the mail. Feature Articles Alibre to CamBam to Centroid: An Example of My CNC Process - Part One by R. G. Sparber Polysher: Smooth Me Up... by Tam Hanna A DC Servo Motor

01/12/2021

Our Winter 2020 issue is hitting mailboxes now! Read about retrofitting a gear hobbing machine to allow gear tooth count to be defined electronically, creating a crank handle for a shop-built thickness sander, using a self-reversing tapping head on a CNC mill, and more.

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Volume 15, Issue 4 Here's what's in the Winter issue, which is in the mail. Feature Articles Digital Control for a Gear Hobbing Machine by Donald B. Plewes and Wolfgang Habicher A Crank Handle for a Shop-Built Thickness Sander: Part One by Curtis Erpelding Using a Self-Reversing Tapping

11/25/2020

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10/09/2020

Coming soon in our Fall 2020 issue, read about an author's marriage of a ProLight 1000 mill to a PathPilot controller, how to make a stepper controller version of a rotary table, and a new entry in Along the G-Code Way. Plenty of good tips and tutorials in this issue.

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Volume 15, Issue 3 Here's the article rundown for the Fall issue, which will come out in mid October. Feature Articles The P3 by Bob Roswick Finding a Place for a Resin Printer in Your Shop by THOMAS ALLSUP A Stepper Motor Controller Version of a Rotary Table -