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Really nice, clean build of a desktop CNC machine using plumbing parts and other readily available materials.
Easy to Build Desk Top 3 Axis CNC Milling Machine - Link
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Easy to build desktop CNC machine
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Aug 25, 2007 02:00 PM
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This is awesome.
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Gah, none of these desktop CNCs are really "easy to build," they are only "simpler than some others." For instance, this instructable is missing all the requirements to interfacing with a computer...
The next MAKE volume needs step-by-steps on how to do a desktop CNC!!!!!!!!!!
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"The next MAKE volume needs step-by-steps on how to do a desktop CNC!!!!!!!!!!"
Absolutely. That'd be excellent, and it could use the Make controller!
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Unfortunately, the Make controller only has eight binary outputs. It can only control two stepping motors.
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Not exactly - it can only control two stepper motors without additional hardware.
If you add driver boards with direction & step inputs, you can drive 4 such boards (and therefore 4 motors) with the 8 outputs. You just need to use them as paired digital outputs.
Of course, you'd also lose the easy OSC-based stepper commands without compiling your own firmware and reworking those sections of the code.
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