Go to the video – click here Hobby CNC machines typically use either a spindle or a router. While these two devices appear similar, they each have distinctly different characteristics. A router is commodity hardware, and may be found in any hardware store such as Lowes or Home Depot as well as online stores such as […]
Building your own 3-Axis CNC router
Building your own 3-Axis CNC router is both fun and educational. This Instructable shows all the steps I followed to make my DIY CNC Router. This is the second one I made, after learning a lot from building the first version. Contents Step 1: Material selection & other details Step 2: Building the base Step […]
Building a CNC router
This instructable will show you how I built my CNC router. I hope you can draw some inspiration from my build and that this instructable will be helpful for your future projects. This instructable shows all the steps I went through in designing and building this CNC router. The main thing I like about a […]
CNC Drawing Machine
Hello all and welcome to my first tutorial! Today I am showing you how to design a drawing CNC using as primary Hardware components a Digilent Arty board, DC Motors and RC Servos. Important Note: Because I am currently working on this project I will show you how to build the CNC and how to […]
Choosing a Stepper Motor for your CNC Machine
Choosing an appropriate stepper motor can be difficult and time consuming. This webpage is intended to help you easily and quickly select a good stepper motor for your project. There is a lot to cover, so consider this the first part in the series Why stepper motors? What about other types of motors? Stepper motors […]
CHOOSING A CNC PLASMA CUTTING MACHINE
This is a question I’m often asked, in my position working for a major manufacturer of plasma cutters. My company produces the plasma cutting tool as well as other peripheral devices (CNC controls, height controls, CAM software, etc.) that are used on CNC cutting machines, but does not produce the machine itself, as there are […]
CNC Software: Digital Tooling for CNC
Digital Tooling: We need software as much as hard tooling to be successful CNC’ers… Why Digital Tooling? When I was learning to be a manual machinist, people used to say, “Budget as much for tooling as you do the machine.” Danged if they weren’t spot on right. In fact, if you wanted to be well […]
How to Make a Three Axis CNC Machine (Cheaply and Easily)
The idea behind this Instructable was to fulfill my desire for a desktop sized CNC machine. While it would have been nice to purchase an off the shelf unit the issue of price as well as size proved prohibitive. With this in mind I endeavored to design and build a three axis CNC machine with […]
Building your own CNC router/milling machine
Already at the age of 12 I was dreaming of making a machine which could make things! A machine which would give me the opportunity to create products for in and around the house. Two years later I stumbled ont the words ‘Computer Numerical Control’ or more specifically the CNC milling machine. After I found […]
DIY CNC Router
This instructable will show you how to construct a CNC Router that will allow you to cut 3-D shapes out of wood, plastic and aluminum using a standard hand held router. Recently I have noticed that more and more projects on instructables have involved the use of some sort of CNC machine, be it a laser cutter, […]
Overview of critical issues
Knowing what feeds and speeds and related parameters (such as the degree of overlap of parallel tooth paths and the depth of cut) to use for a particular type of wood is the most important issue. Once these parameters are known, other issues fall in place.The best way to determine these parameters is to take […]
Overview of CNC Milling procedures and issues
CNC machining to make wooden scale models is not an automatic process. Only some of the steps are semi-automated. How each step is executed determines what is possible, how long it will take to machine and what quality of finish will result.Although the procedures described here were developed for a particular CNC router (made by […]
