Episode 194

194 - Do it all, Jonny

Justin sits down with Jonny Fenderson, a machinist at Like Butter who went from pouring lattes to vibe coding his own shop software. He walks through browser-based G code generators, a digital tool tag system, nesting, and a packing brain that boxes orders. Plus ball screw woes and a dirty sensor mystery.

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Jonny Jonathan Fenderson

  • Dad has high-end furniture fitout (Design Craft)
  • Started with Jem and Laura from cafe meeting
  • Lead Machinist at Like Butter
  • Pencil sharpener
  • Mission Control for Like Butter
  • Recut tools
  • drag and drop parts in nest
  • File manager, machine control from web app
  • Tool board inter-relation with the file manager
  • Vision system over router?
  • How does custom part generator work?
  • Using g-code to create new generation tools
  • Packing algorithm from parts to nest shipping crates too

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HOSTS

Jem Freeman

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

Like Butter | Instagram | More Links

Justin Brouillette

Portland, Oregon, USA

PDX CNC | Instagram | More Links

About the Podcast

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Justin Brouillette (Portland CNC) and Jem Freeman (Like Butter) discuss CNC machines, their product design and manufacturing businesses, and every kind of tool that they fancy.

About your hosts

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Jem Freeman

Co-founder and director of Like Butter, a CNC focussed timber design and manufacturing business in their purpose-built solar-powered workshop. Castlemaine, VIC, Australia.
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Justin Brouillette

Owner of PDX CNC