 Hi, we're back here at Murph 2021 and I've found Joe from Makers on Tap, how you doing Joe? Good. Man, it's been too long since we've hung out, wow it's been a long time. You guys were on the stream on Hot Makes recently, and we were talking about the milk crate and you showed it off a little bit, but before we get to the milk crate, tell everybody how they can find you. Best place to look for me is on Twitter, I'm Joe Spanier Makes and I'm Nemesis.robotics on Instagram. You're probably the two most places I'm active. And he does a lot of stuff from CNC and laser. He is actually working with Lightburn now, which is super exciting, I can't wait to explore that, but in our last Hot Makes video or Hot Makes session where these guys were with us, he showed us the milk crate and he has it here at Murph, so tell us a little bit about it. Yeah, so this is a small format CNC router that is fully enclosed and basically if you've got access to like a table saw or circular saw and a printer of like Ender 3 or Prusa Mini size, you can make every component for this machine. Everything is easily sourceable and the machine just works. It's built to be your first CNC machine. Nice. So you print parts for it, you put together like $400 in wood currently, but tell us about the build. How did you get to this point? Because you did other things in the past, right? Yeah, so I've built a lot of CNC machines and over the course, my very first CNC machine was built about this size and similar format to it, but what I really wanted was a way for people to get into this part of the hobby and have a very functional machine at the end. I was really disappointed with all a lot of the current desktop CNC router options and at the end of this, you can machine wood, you can machine plastics, you can machine aluminum with no problem and it's a lot of forced skill acquisition. You have to drill and tap steel and it's okay. You have to build a little bit of things with wood and it will be fine. So it's essentially the maker's CNC, that's what I'm saying and I guess is it build area? What's your work area? Work area. 12 inches by 9 inches by about 3 inches in Z. Okay, so that's actually pretty good. Yeah, it's also like the largest format desktop CNC router in this footprint, which is about 500 by 500. The whole footprint, that's awesome and what powers this thing. I mean you had the router here, but what are you powering, you know, your stepper motors and stuff like that? So the control is all the open-builds black box, which is what I recommend, but you could run literally anything. If you're comfortable with it, you can do whatever you want. The black boxes are really easy to build, gerbil-based CNC controller. They've got a really nice interface for it. It's a little expensive, but the thing just works and you don't have to question anything. Every component of this has been selected with like the least amount of effort put out for the user. So a couple questions. Is it open-source? It will be open-source. It will be open-source. It's awesome open-source and maybe we can actually slide that into maybe we'll put the file on things, which is one of our sponsors here at Murph 2021. Thank you so much. Thanks for that. Also, I noticed that the color here is pretty nice. What do you print in this set? So all of the red parts are made out of green gate, PETG, recycled. Did you say green gate, PETG? I did. They are a sponsor too. Thank you so much, green gate. They're actually in a booth right here watching right now. Good friend of Makers on Tap is Billy Rubin. We printed this all in Billy Rubin's Cherry Pie Red, which is an awesome color. Billy Rubin's Cherry Pie Red is great. So everything's printed out of PETG. There's no super fancy filaments needed. I've printed a full PLA one that worked perfectly fine. So there's no crazy filaments that you need to do. So overall print time, it doesn't look like there's a ton of print in here. So it's probably not crazy on the print time wise. It's about a full kilogram of filament. The longest parts are actually these. Okay, right here. Yeah, these take about 14 hours for the set of three between the two, but the rest of it, it's maybe 20 hours of total print time. That's not bad. And then can you source the parts pretty much everywhere? You're going to have that loaded this somewhere? Yep, yep. The bomb will be available. It was actually planning on having the STLs available this weekend, and the date from Perna Solid came by and made a suggestion that I really like. So it will be available this weekend. We'll let you know. When Joe says it's ready, I'll let everybody know when the files are ready because I'm going to do this. I'm going to build one of these as a video because I love this thing so much. And I need a CNC that works. Yeah. I better not say what I was thinking. I'll let Caleb edit this part out, but no, I'm just joking. But no, I think what I'll do is when you're ready, let me know because I want to build this, like start to finish and document that for the channel because it not only takes you from this printing part of things, but it's kind of the all around maker, right? Like you said, you're working with the wood, you work with a router, then you got to put together all your other parts that I have no idea how they work really. That's why he's here. So that's awesome. Joe, thank you so much, man. I really appreciate it. It was great to see you. We're going to see Joe soon because he has a robot right over here that's right over my shoulder. That does selfies, so we're going to check that out too. So this is what I think is the most realistic Twitter bot ever created. Basically, this is the beta version of Tormach's robot arm, the ZA6 that's coming out in the next couple months. Oh, wow. I've been working with them as a consultant on the project. Okay. We wanted a fun flashy project to play with here. So basically what we did was push a button, he takes a picture, he insults you, and then he posts the picture to Twitter, hopefully. That's awesome. Here's been a little spotty lately, but it's all programmed in Python. So if you have any programming experience at all, it's pretty easy to do. And this project is Pybooth, so we're actually just communicating with a standard Raspberry Pi to do all the Twitter bot API stuff. Very cool. And it was super cool. We put it together in about three nights, the whole project. It's been fun. And if the internet never comes back, it'll work. And you're going to play with an awesome robot. Yeah, awesome robot. Yeah, so the robot is a mixture of Ross and Machine Kit, and one person in your audience is probably going to understand what that means. But what it means is for research platforms or small format manufacturing, it's super powerful. Nice. The robot's going to be sub 20,000, it runs off single phase 220, so it just works in my garage. That's cool. And if you have an existing Tormach machine, it just directly interfaces. Oh, okay. So you can send code to it, it starts jobs from the controller, and it's really cool. That's awesome. Well, we had to pop over here after we talked about the milk crate, because I had to show you the selfie robot. Joe, thanks again, man. Yeah, yeah. I appreciate it. Thank you.