Hi, I've been looking into this diy CNC stuff now for about a year and I feel ready to start building my first one. I like to think that I have collected enough information and stayed interested long enough that this will be something that I actually finish some day (hopefully in less that a year).
Having some spare time today I decided to sit down and make some quick modeling of what I've got in my head. I want this router to be small enough to transport in a normal size car (since I don't have a permanent home atm). I also want this to be a cheap build as I don't expect my first attempt to be a keeper. For these reasons I decided to go for a working area of about 300x200x70mm and use a dremel and not some fancy brushless system. I decided to go for the slide system shown at makeyourcnc.com (unless you know of something better for the same price). I hope this will be useful for PCB milling and on thin plywood, any comments on that?
I intend to make all the electronics involved myself using microcontrollers and MOSFETs. This will be very good exercise for me as I am an electronics engineering student atm.
I've attached some nice renderings of my sketchup in Autodesk Inventor. This was done directly from my head and I have only had today to work on this, so I took some shurtcuts to get a finished model. This means that the model is no good for making drawings from. I'll make a new model later where every part is separated.
So, what do you think? Do you see anything that could be done better?
Do note that this is a sketch, not work plans.
as a bonus I made a little anaglyph just for the fun of it.
