Great build and video, as usual, Jay! Looking forward to seeing the next installment of this build.
@kaibroeking9968
Жыл бұрын
I love this setup and I am really looking forward to seeing more videos about it, especially to details about the illumination you are using and how you adjust it.
@BrainRight
Жыл бұрын
I'll show my illumination in one of the next videos, and I hope you won't be disappointed that it's very simple. At this point I'm just using LED "sewing machine lights" that I can position around a diffuser made from vellum tracing paper wrapped around the objective. I have plans for something more interesting in the future, as the CNC controller board can drive a neopixel LED array so I can create some dynamic lighting effects. But for now I'm just focused on getting the basic system working well.
@Elektronaut
Жыл бұрын
That's a sweet setup. Thank you for sharing! I want to build such a setup since forever but the motion control has aways been a problem for me. I'm looking forward for the next video!
@BrainRight
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome, glad you liked it. The motion control is an interesting aspect of it, with lots of tradeoffs to consider. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and I hope to get the next video done in the next week or two.
@Bakafish
Жыл бұрын
Oriental Motors :-) I have a lot of their Alpha series closed loop stepper systems.
@BrainRight
Жыл бұрын
Those closed loop steppers look nice, although I haven't used them. They wouldn't add much for this particular application since I'm driving very light loads at low speed and low acceleration, but for general CNC they seem like a good option.
@thomasstapel6824
11 ай бұрын
Very cool setup that gives me some ideas how to redesign my macro setup. I am setting up extreme macro stacking setup ( no video ) just static. But I think I would not need the size you have. Maybe the 12" by 24" nexus table instead - B1224F - Nexus Breadboard.
@BrainRight
11 ай бұрын
I'm sure you could build a great setup with a 12x24 breadboard. You could use columns like mine but with the side brackets on the inside to make it narrower, although you wouldn't be able to drop the cross beam all the way to the bottom as I can. It might not matter if you have stages etc. that place your subject fairly high off the breadboard. If I were starting over I'd probably get a 16x24 breadboard to give me a bit more room front-to-back.
@AllanWallsPhotography
10 ай бұрын
Outstanding work, Jay! May I ask what milling machine you are using in your shop? Thank you!
@BrainRight
10 ай бұрын
Thanks Allan. My milling machine is a PM-25MV from Precision Matthews: www.precisionmatthews.com/shop/pm-25mv/ It was an investment to be sure, but once I started using it I wondered how I survived so long without a milling machine. I've done some fairly ambitious projects with it and posted videos of some of them, but often I just use it to quickly mill a bracket or precisely drill and tap a set of holes. I enjoy some of its niceties like the variable-speed drive and fairly large capacity for a benchtop mill, but probably 98% of what I use it for could be accomplished with a less expensive machine.
@fredbloggs4829
Жыл бұрын
Hi Brian. Another interesting video. Is there SW that can put together a complete sharp image as you move the x axis and the focus changes. It would be so cool to see the entire eye of the fly in focus.
@BrainRight
Жыл бұрын
Hi Fred (my name is Jay). The technique you're asking about is called "focus stacking" and has been around for quite some time. It's relatively straightforward to create a single combined image with a large depth of focus, from a stack of images each having a narrow depth of focus, and this is commonly done in macro photography. Creating a focus-stacked *video* with smooth motion is considerably more challenging, as all sorts of interesting artifacts happen and getting a good result is not as simple as just repeating the stacking process for each frame. Stay tuned though... 😉
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