Born and raised in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, Canada. However, the Canadian weather was too cold for me so a few years ago I moved to Tampa, Florida to enjoy the sunshine state. Soon after, I met my wife, Kinga, while she was visiting her cousin in Florida and imported her all the way from Poland! So together, with 2 dogs, we are Polish Canadian living in America!

I have been interested in computers and electronics longer than I can remember. My first computer was a TRS-80 model III. It was strickly Black & White, not even shades of gray, and each pixel was huge! Those were the days when things were much less complicated...probably why they weren't as much fun too! Well, I fried my TRS-80 moding it and it literally billowed with smoke! Thus, onto to a Commodore 64, amiga and finally modern PCs. Amiga's had an annoying habit of suddenly popping up "Guru Messages" and then crashing! (And Guru became my internet handle.)

An Introduction by Ed Nisley

Watch an informative introduction to CNC design by Ed Nisley. If you are new to CNC, watch it! One thing it illustrates is a CNC machine is not like your printer! In other words, creating cnc parts is not a draw your workpiece and hit print process. There are a few important steps in between.

This slideshow presentation was presented at the Cabin Fever Expo in York, PA in January 2008.

• cncintro-nisley.pdf (8.3MB)
• cncintro-nisley-lores.pdf (low image resolution version) (1.6MB)