My pair of AsRock AMD BC-250 boards just showed up from eBay. These things are stripped down/binned PS5 APUs that run Linux. 16GB of unified 448GB/sec GDDR6 per board, 6 Zen 2 cores, 24 RDNA 2 CUs, apparently unlockable to 40 CUs in the silicon lottery. I plan on making a power distribution board using the two B2B Molex power connectors they have on them, and mill some kind of enclosure on the Shapeoko. I’m curious about using DisplayPort to stream 4x 8Gbps lanes that GPU shaders could pack into texture buffers and a quad to the Ultrascale FPGA

Planning some long duty cycles with water cooled? I have a shapeoko 5 pro 4’x2’ with a 65mm air cooled 1200W VFD, and I think you have to go to a 220V circuit for the water cooled 2.2kW (peak wattage of a regular 120V 15A outlet is 1800W)

I have a hobby CNC (Shapeoko), nothing on the experience level that you’re probably looking for. Formerly an Industrial Designer, now Full Stack Developer. With 10 year operation of laser cutters for small business.

Watch as this ⅛ inch down cut bit carves crisp, clean text into a board, even in the worst case scenario going cross grain on Baltic birch! Check out the tools on our website! -- Amana Tool 1/8" Downcut Bit, item no. 46200-K Shapeoko 5.1 Pro CNC Machine, item no. S5

The Shapeoko 3 lives again!…. Also uhhhh… I wanna upgrade asap. Forgot how much of a nightmare setting this up is.

Just wanted to say I’m a huge fan of my shapeoko Love to see y’all on here and all the deeper discussion

Early on Thompson was one company we talked to, and they were made in Mexico at the time. Be sure to send over some pics of what you're making on the Shapeoko (when you can share). We never get tired of seeing what people are doing.

i own a shapeoko & am @ to commercialize a few products that are off radar. Star linear actually machines & assembled some in Charlotte - but germans were milking us as their foreign distrubtion system. that's now the bosch star linear / indromat side. Schweinfurt Germany...

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I’ve always been a tinkerer at heart, the kind of girl who can’t leave a pile of scrap metal or a broken watch alone. My name’s Kick Rocks, my friends call me, Lisa. The last six years I’ve been turning that restless energy into something beautiful...custom jewelry made with a wild mix of high-tech machines and good old homemade grit. It all started with my first big purchase, the Glowforge laser cutter. That machine opened the door for me. I’d spend hours in the garage watching it trace perfect designs across wood, acrylic, and thin metals, learning how precision could meet creativity. From there, I leveled up. Now my shop runs on a solid lineup. The Glowforge handles a lot of the detailed engraving and cutting, especially on delicate pieces. I’ve got a Prusa i3 MK4 3D printer that reliably spits out wax models for lost-wax casting or quick resin prototypes I can tweak by hand. My favorite heavy hitter is the Shapeoko CNC mill, it hums away carving precise shapes out of silver, brass, titanium, or whatever wild material a customer brings me. And for the really fine work, I use a small desktop fiber laser engraver that etches tiny details like coordinates of where someone met their spouse or the exact waveform of a kid’s heartbeat from an ultrasound. But the soul of every piece ...That’s still pure homemade. I melt silver in a little homemade crucible over a propane torch I rigged up from an old camping stove. I hammer textures by hand on my grampa’s old anvil. Sometimes I forage for materials...beach glass I tumble smooth myself, antler sheds I cut and polish, even circuit boards from old electronics that I turn into steampunk cufflinks. The contrast is everything....the clean, perfect lines from the Glowforge, Shapeoko, and Prusa meeting the warm, imperfect fingerprints of my hands at work. Last week I finished a wild one. A woman wanted a necklace for her daughter who’s obsessed with space. I used the Shapeoko CNC to mill a tiny rocket ship out of aluminum, then switched to the Glowforge to cut and engrave constellations on the back. I set a real meteorite chip (ethically sourced, of course) into the nose cone with some hand-finishing and strung it on a leather cord I braided while watching old sci-fi movies. When she opened the box her eyes got misty. That’s the moment I live for...the second someone realizes this thing that started as lines on a screen and scraps in my garage now carries their whole story. People ask if it’s hard balancing the machines and the handmade side. Yeah, sometimes. The Glowforge and Shapeoko don’t care if I’m tired or inspired; they just do exactly what you tell them. But the homemade part....That’s where the magic leaks in. A slip of the hammer, a little extra solder that creates an accidental texture, the way metal sings differently under different torch flames. Those happy accidents have become my signature. I work out of a converted garage that smells like flux, coffee, and whatever candle I burned trying to cover up the flux. My hands are usually stained, my nails have metal dust under them, and there’s usually a smudge of something shiny on my cheek. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Every piece I ship out carries a little note: “Made with machines like my Glowforge, Shapeoko, and Prusa, finished with love, and a whole lot of stubbornness.” That’s me. That’s what I do. One custom creation at a time, bridging the future and the old ways, turning people’s memories and dreams into something they can wear close to their heart. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. 💎​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​❤️ @KickRocks2026

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I had Grok design a humidor that I can fabricate with my Shapeoko CNC milling machine.

Is that a Shapeoko? Those look so cool, how have you liked it?

I used a Shapeoko CNC router for this. Chip carving is awesome; you can just get a basic knife or two for $10 and some scrap balsa wood to practice cuts and designs on, and you'll be rolling in no time. I've done wooden covers like this before that are all chip-carved.

I didn’t know about bCNC. Just looked at it. I’ve got a Shapeoko 3 I’m going to try it with.

The hard part of the CNC is the CAD work to create models you feed to the CNC. . Shapeoko desktop CNC would be a great trainer. Tormach has small shop conventional CNCs Haas for bigger conventional CNC (but that's where your customers are at) . Find out what CAD systems your customers use so you could trade compatible models for rough cuts. GM/F/Chrysler use NX and Catia Some Tier 1,2,3s are using Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape, or others internally but are required by GM/F/Chry to transfer in their CAD systems so the suppliers maintain seats in each. NX and Catia run over $10k/seat/year subscription. .

Dang this just opened up a whole new world for me. I have a CNC as well. Shapeoko 5 pro. Love it, great piece of equipment

Nem fala. Sonho com uma Shapeoko desde a 2 e já está quase na 5...

Finally got that rugged Carbide Motion controller for my Shapeoko 5 Pro ... feelin' pretty manly.

Had to join this group I’ve been vibe coding for a bit Experience coding was only ever a Minecraft server years and years ago And this is my program in development The Urreca Tool 2D image to 3D mesh for relief carvings in wood via a shapeoko 4 CNC router machine. I’ve successfully exported an .stl file to blender and next step is a dry run on the machine 👀