CNC Router

Description

To celebrate the new year the space decided to get a CNC Milling machine.

The idea is to spec out a machine from the openbuilds selection of goodies and profiles to meet our requirements; this turned into a phased deployment of a functional C-Beam machine kit first, and then extending this into a 1000x750mm gantry style machine ASAP.

Pledges

A pledge tracker can be found on this google sheet [1]

Design

We have purchased from Colin at robocutters.co.uk[2]

• A C Beam machine kit
• 3 NEMA 23 Motors
• 1 1000mm linear actuator kit
• 1 750mm linear actuator kit
• 4 750mm 60 aluminium profiles
• 16 wheel kits

From China we ordered:

• 800W 60mm mount water cooled spindle
• 1.5kW VFD
• Pump
• Collets

From other sources:

• 6 C.P type limit switches (swwils)
• Radiator (swwils)
• 4 Core spindle cable (swwils)
• RUMBA Board + Drivers (Marytin)

Build

• Spindle and VFD have arrived
• Limit switches have arrived

Software

Chillipeppr with JSON server proposed.