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Building a low cost, accurate and easy to build CNC machine.

A 5′ x 11′ CNC router which I plan to start building in the next week or two.

Finally a mix of a Dedicated Control Panel and Mach3! And its pretty easy to complete!

3 axis Al profile CNC

Names Garen Phillips and i am an aluminum foundry worker, machinist, engineer, pattern maker and business manager, and this build will be an overview of my company and what it takes to manufacture something on a large scale. I also have started an educational series on youtube that will cover in detail, all the step you will be seeing from this build, and hopefully i will have a video up before the closing date.

Small CNC Mill from junk scaner/printer components and aluminium and PVC sheets.

This is a rotating tool holder build log. If you build this, you will never again loose your collets!

Hi all,
This is the build log of Optimus 4G a 4×5 CNC Router. Following will be the features of this build:
1- Working area 4ft x 5ft
2- Using Rack and Pinion, and the stepper motors and linear carriages from Ahren CNCROUTERPARTS.
3- Mach3 screenset from Gerry AKA Ger21.
4- Limit Switches as per RomanLini design.
5- Lot of drilling/tapping
6- DIY cable carrier

This group will attempt to address the problem of cable management as it applies to CNC machines. If you have the cash $$, you can find manufactured cable carriers available from many sources. When building a DIY CNC machine most of us do not have the extra cash to spend on such things and need to save every penny for the things we can’t make like the motors and electronics to drive them. It is this mindset that drove me to design my own cable carrier to go with my first CNC build, and I will attempt to document the thought process along with the changing design ideas I went through to get to my final design.

In this group, I will show you my CNC project, it’s a nice 36 X 24 CNC made of MDF with quite strong stepper motors. I need some idea to improve the design as it has too much wobble when you put too much strength on the router.

This is not a CNC machine per-se, rather it is using the step and direction technology used in CNC machines to control a router lift. A PIC microchip is sending signals to control the stepper motor drivers which in turn drives a linear actuator that controls the Z height of my router. Memorizes positions, slews at various rates and homes for quick tool changes.

This is my first CNC router build, and I’ve decided to go with a custom design incorporating bits and pieces of different designs I’ve seen over the past year. It’s intended primarily to cut and shape speaker cabinets, mill printed circuit boards, and do light machining in aluminum.