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Has anyone created their own CNC Mill? Of any kind, laser, plasma, the kind that uses drill bit...

I want to make my own, and would be willing to pay someone in FG to walk me through it.

Also, if anyone has a CNC palsma cutter, I need some things made and am willing to pay cash

This post was edited by oonzpoonz on Oct 17 2014 05:57pm

There are a bunch of open source milling CNC machines which only require 4 PWM motors (3 for XYZ movement, 1 for bit spinning) and a arduino or other AVR chip for controlling the motors. Try looking on instructables, I've seen a few on there which seem pretty well made.

Prepare to invest in quite a bit into one, good PWM motors are a bit pricy and if you don't use a arduino, AVR programmers can be expensive as well (I paid 100$ for a china made universal programmer with a ZIF socket in it.) Not to mention the rails and other parts you will need to fabricate.

As for lasers and such, you can forget about it. The amount of power required and the output of the laser is to hard to get a hold of. Unless you just want to cut 1mm plastic or something you won't be able to get a laser with enough output power to do anything meaningful. Milling would be the best thing for a homebrew project.

Here are a few examples which also show you how to source recycled parts.

http://www.instructables.com/id/20-CNC-Machine/
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Three-Axis-CNC-Machine-Cheaply-and-/

Don't expect to be milling metal and such though.

This post was edited by AbDuCt on Oct 17 2014 06:27pm

Well, I have the funds, and an arduino board...

Everything you just said is beyond what I'm capable of, which is why I want someone to walk me through it step-by-step.

Thanks for the info, I'll start reading up on some DIY guides

EDIT: Not even lasers for simple engraving? Not cutting

This post was edited by oonzpoonz on Oct 17 2014 06:26pm

Engraving can be done, cutting not so much. The output of the laser would been to be fairly large to actually cut something. Good thing about a cnc homebrew base is that once you have the 3 axis control base built you can swap the milling head (dremel for example) for a laser and do engraving.

Here are some sources for homebrew cnc machines which also show where you source recycled parts. More can be found on the same website:

http://www.instructables.com/id/20-CNC-Machine/
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Three-Axis-CNC-Machine-Cheaply-and-/