Book or web site for DIY CNC

> ballendo@... wrote:
>
> > I've been writing one. Should be out in March.
>
> Great! Keep us up to date on it. How about a discount
> for list members?
>
> Until then, although not D-I-Y, but nevertheless interesting
> 2nd Edition of "CNC Workshop" by Frank Nanfara
> is out now: ISBN 0-13-091412-6
>
> http://www.torcomp.com email mariab@...
>
> This book is a CNC tutorial, with a realtime simulator (but no
> outputs as far as I know). The first version of the book had
> software which ran as Java under MS Internet Explorer.
>
> The second edition of the book has rewritten software in C++
> and (I understand) also OpenGL, so those of you with decent
> OpenGL video cards (ie NVidia TNT,TNT2,GeForce, GeForce2)
> should be able to see photorealistic machining in real time (but
> still no outputs to control an actual machine - - too bad....).
>
> Also, for a short time, I understand there are a few pre-press books
> (B&W covers, but with the software) available for a discount at Torcomp.
>
> Doug Fortune