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Touch Screen Monitor   Lenovo Mounting

I purchased a wall mount monitor bracket form Amazon and cannibalized it for parts to put the monitor at the end of the original Enco DRO arm.  There is a small amount of tilt and a fair bit of swing.  The arm has considerable movement.  The Lenovo Tiny was mounted on a bracket I made to bolt to the arm.  The PC and Monitor power supplies are fastened underneath.  Chip sucker vacuum mounts on the wall out of the way, with a swarf separator on the floor under the chiller for the laser seen below the monitor in the picture above.

 

Rear of Monitor

 

As the monitor needs a USB connection for the touch features, I added a small hub to the back of the monitor.  This provides a convenient location to plug in a USB drive.  Detail of the cannibalized monitor arm can be seen.

 

Tooling Cart   Tooling Cart Detail

The keyboard and hand controller reside on the tooling cart I made for the old CNC mill.  Sheet metal mountings were spot welded and fastened to the cart.  The keyboard is retained by the metal strip that sticks to a couple of magnets mounted on the bracket.  The keyboard can be easily removed but is tightly fastened into place so it does not need to be chased around during use.

The cart has three trays on ball bearing tracks that pull out for easy access as well as two drawers for bulky item storage.  Vice handle hangs on the left side and the ever useful dead blow and must have radio headset on the right.  Rolls around on casters.

 

Machine software is the powerful Centroid CNC 12: