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

Hi,

I read the book last night and cannot disagree with what you say on one
level, but still stand by my comment below as the answer to the original
question. It is the fastest, cheapest way to build a CNC router for
woodwork.

The book is probably the first complete manual that I have seen on how it
could be done but not the only way it is possible. There are glaring
omissions in design, manufacture and software, apart from the ones you
pointed out. Or was it written before Turbo CNC, Mach2 and Gecko drives to
mention a few?

I believe the book should be viewed as a tool in helping one to design ones
own machine rather than doing it exactly verbatum.

Regards,

Terry

> 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...