Mike's Bio: Rumor has it that I was born taking things apart. At least from a very early age, I was taking apart all of my toys, things around the house - anything that fascinated me, which was things that were motorized, lit up or made sound. My parents started buying me electronics kits for Christmas and birthdays. I was hooked. In high school, I attended Quincy Voc Tech and my shop was electronics, of course. What had always been a hobby started to become a real thing. The beginning of my electronics career started at Radio Shack trying to sell TVs to people who just wanted a fuse and 4 AA batteries and came to an end after I had been with Bose Corporation for over 18 years in a variety of technical roles ranging from Lab Technician to Applications Technologist to Audio/Video Producer to Creative and Technical Presentation Specialist to Software Developer. In between, I worked at a bunch of electronics repair depots, including the one I built from the ground up at Siemens. In the 90’s it was a lot of PC repair shops, Motorola and Datel, where I was a Failure Analysis Engineer working on Switch Mode Power Supplies. While I was still at Bose, I had gone down the rabbit hole that is Sim Racing and had been working on my racing setup in my spare time. As that project became more and more complex, I needed to have custom parts made. That’s when I became interested in getting a CNC machine of my own. That’s also when I realized that I could just design and build one for much less than it would cost to buy one. At this point, I’ve built 4 CNC machines in all. The early ones were just prototypes and were embarrassingly low powered. The newest machine I have is a rebuild of an old AccuCut machine that I replaced all of the original electronics on. I n never had any plan to do custom CNC woodworking. I had already built a really sturdy machine, so after watching some YouTube videos on 3D carving models from wood, I decided to give it a shot. The rest is history!