This is just a note to let you know that I am waist deep in building the JOE-2006. I am doing everything by hand as I have no CNC equipment. I made my own breakout board and drivers using the toner transfer method of making the circuit boards and drilling and soldering them by hand. By the way I started working on that project in July 06. I have all the materials on hand to build my power supply. Kudos to Pminmo.com for their driver designs.Then I started looking for a router design. I could not imagine one better than Joe's. One year later and I am beginning to see the project come together. It has been such fun to do it all myself (except for the design, which is really great). I have worked on this in my spare time, around hospitalization for Guillian-Barre syndrome, disability retirement because of Alzheimer's, and nerve damage from 2 attacks of Guillian-Barre. I always look forward to doing something else on the project. I intend to put big red flashing lights that flash anytime power is applied to my router. I don't want to forget it is on and rout away any of my body parts, they all have enough trouble. I have read, and read, and reread posts about drivers, motors, power supplies, Joe builder's posts, these keep me motivated and answer questions I am too dumb to ask. Your successes keep me believing I can do it too. Thanks to the entire CNC community and to Joe in particular for designing something a beginner can actually build. Keep up the wonderful work.

Donald Bain
Oxford, Alabama

Donald,

Congratulations on the efforts you have made so far. Stick to it.

Best wishes,
Alan

Ditto on the congrats Don!!! Best of luck with project!! I too am in Alabama, up near Huntsville. Been doing CNC as a hobbie for almost four years now, this is my second CNC project, my first was a highly modified "PipeDream" built with what ever I could find. I crashed it just recently for the last time making parts for Joe's, so am having to build parts by hand now. Slow process for me, no shop here, just a small cabin in the woods. Just something I enjoy doing when time and health permits it. Guess we all love the challenge of it and it does keep our minds thinking. I work around CNC machines everyday at work, do fabrication of sheet metal parts and operate a CNC burn table at work. I love the hobbie but not too keen on doing it for a living, doing 500 parts of the same thing gets real boring fast!! Guess I like doing my own thing with it when I want...LOL Have built my own PCB's by milling them, I'll be using Dave's HobbieCNCPro 3-axis board, Keling 425 oz. steppers, 24volt 10A switching power supply, Mach3 driver, SheetCam for making G-code from my own designs done in DesignCad3D software. Been doing it this way for a couple years now so its all proven equipment and works great for me. I have a thread on here also with pictures of what I've got done so far on Joe's design, I'll be changing it some but basically its still a joe's design. Anyway, welcome to the group.....

Cheers
dewalt58