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CNC Router

About 2 years ago I caught the CNC bug. It bit me hard.

It did not help that Nuts & Volts magazine had this article on the Probotix Fireball CNC router.

I could not afford it (or maybe just foolishy did not want to afford it)... so I research what was going on in the DIY community with CNC routers. The best thing I found was a web site called buildyourcnc.com, which at the time was a fledgling site featuring a guy building a CNC router in his bathroom (he is married with children too). So I downloaded all of the videos and began the process of putting together a parts list. I think he might have had plans for sale however I am too cheap to buy them. I ended up buying a bunch of parts to make one however I found an even simpiler design that promised to be less expensive to buy parts for and easier to build.

Enter the Slosylva 13x13 CNC router.

http://www.solsylva.com/cnc/13x13x5.shtml

The plans (pater version ... digital is less) are $25. It promised to cost roughly $100 USD to buy the basic parts for (minus the motors and controller, however most CNC router kits/plans are priced that way). And guess what. It cost just a little more than $100. I think I ended up paying about $123 because I bought the rods twice. More on that later.

So this is my page recording my adventures in DIY CNC routers.

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