Saturday, November 19, 2011

CNC Router - It's Alive!!

About a year ago, my good buddy Taylor and I had a dream - a dream to build a machine. A dream to build a machine that could build other machines.

A dream to build a machine that could build other dreams.

It was a grand dream, but it wasn't long before apathy and a lack of funds set in. That is, until summer rolled around. Excitement was rekindled, and a pot of lucky gold was found in the backyard - our dream was back on!

It took us four months from the day we ordered parts until everything was put together. From there it was a measly 1.5 hours to configure everything, learn the software, and run our first example:



Other than the horrid screeching, It worked flawlessly! Now all we have to do is figure out what we want to do with it....

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