Well, it originated as a blog, and has grown into a DIYDrones attempt at creating a CNC machine.

This group is set up so that we can organize the activity.

For background, the original blog is located here:

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/cnc-stuff

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  • All%20Steel%20Milling%20Machine.SLDASM

    hi all seen that you are looking at making a milling machine here is a design unfinished that i have made it is yours to do with as you wish my way of helping the diy drone community 

  • Fab, only if that humanoid figure on it is a G.I Joe action figure.

  • Will the cnc machine be this big? Original source adafruit

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  •  I have only been with Diy Drones  for a short while but i can honestly say."Assembled are the most brilliant minds on the web ! I am just going to follow along and maby learn a thing or two I feel humbled in your presence. If I can add any thing from from 'Old  school" that might help  I will

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Progress on the Harp Fabricator

After a coupla years of thought and compromises and decisions on how to make a rigid small CNC machine this is what I've come up with.It will be cast solid aluminum which is the only real solution for the rigidity issue. If you could do it in cast iron it would be perfect. However this seems to me to be the best compromise after a lot of thought and trials. This is a moving table design not a moving gantry design.We plan to make the casting sometime after the 6th of January when I have help…

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Aluminum Foundry for casting small parts.

 We just got started on a foundry for casting aluminum parts. I can not find anything worthy made from extruded stock in aluminum so we have to make a casting for the CNC machine. I'll be making the casting for whoever wants one by the time we finish this project. Here's some photos of the ground work being done. Over a ton of sand for the foundation. 500# of Sugar Sand #85 mesh for making the green sand and #100 of Bentonite Clay. 70# of Fireclay 4 cubic feet of Perlite and some Diatomatious…

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Inexpensive setup for prototyping

 I had some time to search around and find the least expensive way for anyone to get involved with a CNC project of their own! And here's what I came up with!  5 Axis CNC Break Out Board (BOB) from ebay!EasyDriver V4.2 also from Ebay! Some NEMA 17 stepper motors for $15 each!And a regular PC Power supply!  1 X BOB $11.79 http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Axis-CNC-Breakout-Board-Interface-Adapter-F-Stepper-Motor-Driver-DB25-Cable-/321083753484?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ac215440c  3-5 X EasyDriver…

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