Add an inexpensive digital readout to your drill press

Reading Time: 2 minutesA drill press is a very useful tool that lets you slowly drill holes that are perfectly perpendicular to the work piece. And good drill presses give you a readout that lets you drill to a precise depth. But the cheap drill press stands for hand drills make that difficult. To solve this problem on […]

A DIY digital readout for your wood lathe

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA DIY digital readout for your wood lathe Arduino Team — February 15th, 2020 Small wood lathes don’t typically come with an RPM readout, so after obtaining such a machine several months ago, engineer Zach — also known as ‘byte sized’ — decided to build his own custom display. The device uses a Nano for […]