Spooky season is upon us, so it seems only fitting to share with you a Halloween-themed project that I’ve been working on at home. Inspired by videos of self-playing chessboards driven by magnets beneath the board, I decided to apply the same approach to creating a Ouija board that spells out messages without the touch of human hands.
Official announcementRaspberry Pi NewsKat Shann
OuijaCNC
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The build
The first step in the project was to create a lightweight core XY CNC machine. For this I drafted in my husband, and he was able to put something together within a couple of days using 3D-printed parts, fishing line, some motors, and an ESB32 that he had lying around.
(The core XY he built for this project turned out so well that he used what he learnt to make a slightly beefier version as the basis for a CNC plasma cutter.)
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