Tired of manually finding the edges of his workpiece for each axis, he built himself a DIY touch probe to automate the process. The theory behind the probe’s operation is pretty simple.

Of course, this isn’t the first DIY touch probe we’ve seen, here’s one for example, and over on Hackaday.IO, here’s an attempt to make one using a piezoelectric transducer.

The 2024 Japan International Machine Tool Fair (JIMTOF) showed how the manufacturing industry is adapting to the needs of electric vehicle manufacturing and adopting new technology including AI and ...

The 2024 Japan International Machine Tool Fair (JIMTOF) showed how the manufacturing industry is adapting to the needs of electric vehicle manufacturing and adopting new technology including AI and ...

The probe aims to again "touch" the Sun when it flies up to about 430,000 mph at its closest approach "just 3.8 million miles" from the surface of the star at 6:53am on Tuesday ET, per NASA.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, a groundbreaking mission to study ... This historic mission aims to “touch the sun,” uncovering secrets about the sun’s atmosphere and its effects on the Earth ...