Easy to build desktop CNC machine

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Really nice, clean build of a desktop CNC machine using plumbing parts and other readily available materials.

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10 thoughts on “Easy to build desktop CNC machine

  1. kylecroft says:

    This is awesome.

  2. samurai1200 says:

    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!!!!!!!!!!

  3. tsaylor says:

    “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!

  4. RussNelson says:

    Unfortunately, the Make controller only has eight binary outputs. It can only control two stepping motors.

  5. Crosius says:

    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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