Milling Machine

[Anonymous]

Cheers Adam

I did have a look at Farnell and found 60 stepper driver ICs from £2.48 each. Makes it even cheaper than £20 for the stepper driver board.
Could be built on veroboard too.

 

[Adam]

Cheers Adam

I did have a look at Farnell and found 60 stepper driver ICs from £2.48 each. Makes it even cheaper than £20 for the stepper driver board.
Could be built on veroboard too.

Just search on www.google.com for something like "stepper motor control" or "stepper control software" or "stepper motor driver circuit"... you get the drift, and their is literally hundreds of ametuer websites from people, with help, parts lists, schematics, PCB layouts etc.

I got a bit interested when I was taking photos using kites to elivate the camera - "Kite Aerial Photography". Often used for photographing archaelogical sites. You need stepper motor control to set azimuth and elevation.

Adam

 

[Anonymous]

Andrew

From a Health and Safety standpoint if you are to use a CNC machine for commercial use (and by strict definition for workshop use) the machine must be fully guarded to prevent any possibly accidents. A lot of commercial machines do not have this facility.

Malcolm

 

[Anonymous]

From a Health and Safety standpoint if you are to use a CNC machine for commercial use (and by strict definition for workshop use) the machine must be fully guarded to prevent any possibly accidents. A lot of commercial machines do not have this facility

Good point. I wonder if my DeWalt radial arm saw would pass muster on that score?

Andrew

 

[colinc]

If you're are thinking of building a cnc router then I think that you might want to look here: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62920


This is a modelling forum article of >1900 replies and is packed with some very useful information - it's a lot of reading but there is a lot of experience packed in there.

regards

Colin