After six months away from the project, I’m finally starting again.

Getting back to it was not as simple as flipping the machine on and picking up where things left off. The real work was down in the hardware: machine setup, motor behavior, encoder feedback, and all the small details that decide whether a system is merely moving or actually moving with precision.

A big part of getting over that wall came from Alexis Paredes (@alexisparedesart on Instagram). Alexis put in the time, patience, and real attention needed to go deep into the setup with me. Not surface-level fixes, but the kind of careful troubleshooting that gets into the bones of the machine.

Thanks to that work, precision has finally been achieved in a way that feels solid and repeatable. That matters, because without trust in the hardware, everything that comes after is guesswork.

This restart feels different. Better grounded. Less about hoping the machine behaves, more about understanding why it does. That’s the kind of progress that actually holds.

So: the project is back on. And this time, it’s starting again from a much better place.

Thank you, Alexis.