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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Our Build a CNC Router course is coming up again in April, and I’m really excited about it. I love building, programming and using CNC routers, but seeing the photos from students in this class is even more fun. So many people have built their own machines over the past year, and they’ve shared photos […]

The 3D printing community is filled with DIY’ers (Do It Yourself’ers), who are fascinated with building 3D printers basically from scratch. The RepRap movement is one that has really caught on, and in fact most of today’s top consumer level 3D printers originated in one way or another from RepRap. This means that the DIY’er […]

GENERAL INFORMATION – WHITE PAPERS Shopping for or building a CNC router is no easy task. To ease this process, I wanted to put together some basic information on the topic. Regardless of what company or machine you go with, please consider reading the following. These sections were written to provide a better understanding of […]

May I suggest that if you are operating a panel router, don’t every buy something called bla-bla-CAM MILL. To explain, let me define the difference between a MILL and a ROUTER: A MILL usually takes a block of material and mills it into some three dimensional single piece, like a mounting bracket, a cylinder head, […]

This is the Salesman’s real ammunition. Please be aware… it’s not as important they would want you to think. What is really important is the speed and accuracy you actually need. ‘Speed and Feed’, ever heard of those before? Imagine you are whittling a stick with a pocket knife. The thickness that you cut down […]

A CNC is simply a machine which controlled by a computer to perform a repetitive or accurate task otherwise not possible or cost effective by hand. The basics are true for all machines, whether it’s a robotic arm painting cars on an assembly line or a flatbed router cutting plywood: a series of commands are […]

If you are at this point, you probably already understand the basics of a CNC System. Just to make sure, here are the primary parts of a CNC system (flat bed panel cutting type): The Support Table The Gantry The Cutting Tool The Control Motors The Motor Driver, Indexer, and Controller The Safety Equipment The […]