Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] What's the fastest, cheapest way to build a CNC router for wood only

Blue wrote:

> Buy a book called "CNC Robotics" by Geoff Williams ISBN 0-07-141828-8, the
> best $34.95 I have spent in a long time.

Be sure to read the amazon.com reviews first. I bought it on
amazon.co.uk where there were no reviews listed so I decided to take a
risk and was pretty disappointed with it. If you want to follow a
detailed, and in places rather patronising, set of instructions for
building a DIY cartesian (gantry style) CNC router it's not too bad. But
even then it has some padding (50 pages of manufacturers datasheets for
stepper motor controller chips and a chapter on etching your own PCBs)
and some weird unjustified design choices (eg. the slides used in the
design are salvaged from a rare professional camera). If you want to
build any other kind of CNC machine it isn't really very useful.

BTW I submitted my own fairly negative review to amazon.co.uk and they
have silently ignored it...

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