One material that I really enjoy milling on the CNC machine, either the Mill One or the LongMill, is plywood. It’s a strong, forgiving material that’s fairly inexpensive, with a decent sheet of  4′ x 8′ sanded 1/2″ plywood costing around $35 to $40 at Home Depot. The LongMill is designed to handle 2′ x […]

If you’ve been following us for some time, you might know that we’ve received a lot of support from the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business. Well, we’ve been asked to join them for the grand opening of their new space in E7! If you’re in the area and want to join us, we’ll be […]

Hey everyone. Just wanted to announce that we’ll be holding our first CNC milling workshop at our new space at 44 Gaukel in Downtown Kitchener in a few weeks! Workshop attendees will get a chance to learn and design using CAD, create G-code using CAM, and cut out a design with a CNC machine. To […]

I’ve been working with some of our first batch of beta testers who have reported issues with reliability, especially on the Y axis. If you missed that, you can read more about it here: https://sienci.com/2018/10/04/longmill-beta-y-axis-drifting/ There has been a couple of changes made to combat that. First was with adding a second power supply and an […]

Did you know that Americans save extra when shopping Canadian? Normally when purchasing from American companies, the goods would be subjected to various taxes depending on the states you and that company is in. However, rules change from state taxes to customs duty when you ship from outside the US. “De minimis” — Latin for […]

One of the nice things about having a CNC machine is that it makes it super easy to make a lot of different types of joinery. This project shows how to make and mill out a simple box out of plywood. If you want to get some inspiration on some other designs for joining wood […]

  So first things first, we’re going to call the “LongBoi CNC’s”… “LongMills” now. Feedback was saying that “Boi” was a bit too meme and unprofessional. LongMill sort of follows the Mill One name, except that it is longer, obviously. If you want to learn more, you can go to our landing page for the LongMill! […]

For the past year, we’ve been putting in a lot of work to further improve how all of you can experience the Mill One. Today, we are thrilled to announce our first venture into custom software. Introducing: CamLab CamLab – camlab.sienci.com CamLab is powered by Kiri:Moto, taking everything that Kiri already does and making it better. […]

Things have been really busy with the building and development of the LongBoi project. Progress is slow but steady. Some of the assembly was delayed since some of the parts were coming in slowly but we are on our suppliers and manufacturers to get parts in as soon as possible. Here are a couple of changes that […]

We’re excited to tell you that we’ve moved to a new office space! We are joining other start-up companies at the Accelerator Center, and we can’t wait to move on to the next chapter of our journey.   Here’s a sneak peak of our new office space: Warehouse   Test benches   Office   Thanks […]