The mill is working and I’ve been familiarizing myself with CAD and CAM software, and EMC. QCAD and Inkscape are first rate. I’ve had trouble finding anything I like for CAM, but dxf2gcode seems to work very well. The labels aren’t very intuitive and everything’s metric, but it’s more reliable than the others that I’ve tried yet.

The only end mill I have at the moment is pretty short, so I’ve mostly been playing around with engravings:

With “It’s Alive”, I tried to cut the outline of the font, but my end mill was too large in diameter, which you can particularly see in the ‘A’ and the ‘e’.