What I'm doing right now is just reinforcing the 1/2" aluminium table top and attaching the legs to it. Just making sure that I have a strong foundation or back-bone for the structure. This is all happening whenever I get a chance to work on it while I'm doing work for my home-based business, like when the lathe is doing a run in auto-mode or waiting for adhesives or paint to dry.
In conjunction with this, I'm planning on building a smaller scale CNC dremel with the just a CNC x&y table with the z mounted on a rigid gantry with manual z control.
This I plan to build with salvaged dot-matrix printer parts and will mainly be for my education on the computer-to-servo workings of DIY CNC.
I will be using the print head assemblies (including the existing motors) of a Star 1101 for y-axis and NEC Pinwriter P6000 for the x-axis. Can someone direct me to some simple circuit plans for the parralel port to stepper motor terminal block (driver) so I can proceed with this small educational project?
I've been corresponding with Mr. Mauch of Camtronics for the electronics part of my bigger project but he's busy 'til March 2005 and I don't want to be a bother to him about this smaller project.  |