Make your own CNC setup
Make your own mods, I ran across this company that has a micro cnc robot:
Meet micRo, our very small, very useful, very affordable and very cute little CNC robot. The idea behind micRo is to provide a starting point for people who are interested in CNC. By building micRo, you will learn the fundamentals of CNC robotics, while having constructed a “bridge automaton”; a “facilitator”. When you’re done you’ll have a 10″x12″x2.5″ working area. Many people won’t need anything larger.. but if you do you can use micRo to build parts for a larger machine (like RoGR).
It’s interesting, put a factory in your basement/garage.
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I’d buy a kit for one of these even tho it serves nearly no purpose.
You got that right. That is my biggest hurdle
I found the CAD part rather easy(I did a great deal of 3d design/animation in the past), The CAM part a bit harder(still figuring it out) and setting up EMC the hardest, mostly because I haven’t kept up my UNIX/LINUX skills
Lot of cash for that size of machine ,could build something bigger thats more usable ffor not much more cash. Building the machine is the easy part 😀 learning how to draw in 3D CAD and CAM then the EMC is the fun part which im still enjoying 😕 ……and will be for many months yet i think ! 😯
interesting, but thats a lot of money for a almost worthless toy.
there are other systems out there in the same price range that could actually be used to do something.
I have to question the rigidity of the that device and its slower than molasses in winter ( a rigid device is needed for precise cutting )
It might be good for laying out circuit boards, but not a whole lot else.
That seems like a nice way to go?
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I guess if you never took more than .002 or .003 at a time it might work..it looks like it would chatter like the dickens..