CNC machine from PC parts
posted Nov 8th 2010 11:00am by Mike Szczysfiled under: cnc hacks
[Mike Rankin] built a small CNC machine using some PC parts. He repurposed two optical drives and a floppy drive to create the plotter seen drawing the Hackaday logo above. The X and Y axes use the stepper motor controlled read heads from two optical drives. The Z axis is built using the read head hardware from a floppy drive. A 3-axis controller module from eBay drives the little machine, keeping the cost quite low at around $45.
As you can see in the video after the break it does a great job as a plotter. [Mike] doesn’t think there’s enough power in the hardware to be used as a mill. We’d still like to try adding a flexible shaft rotary tool and see if this could mill some rudimentary PCBs, but maybe you need to shell out just a little bit more for that functionality. It might also be possible to use an etchant resist marker instead of toner transfer or photo-resist.
tagged: floppy drive, mill, optical drive, parts, pc, pcb, plotter, stepper
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http://hackaday.com/2010/11/08/cnc-machine-from-pc-parts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Wow! That is really amazing!:) How did he figure out how to re-control those DVD Drives to Draw!???
Don
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