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A project log for CNC desktop laser/dremel mill/microscope

The aim of this project is to make a desktop cnc machine with at least A3 working area (420x297 mm), Z < 100mm with sub 300 EUR budget.

kertKert 01/18/2016 at 09:260 Comments

Well - I have been rather busy for the past summer, autumn and winter and to be honest I am still rather busy. Anyway I got around to updating the components list at last - this is just the mechanical components (no steppers or electronics) for time being. I do think about this project more or less regularly but lack the sufficient free time to do any significant enough progress worth mentioning in this log. Perhaps I'll get around visiting the laser cutter at last in a month or two with the pile of acrylic sheets sitting under my desk and staring me accusingly.

I'll see if I can upload also the cutting patterns in here if anyone else feels like giving it a try. If I can then there will be two versions of the patterns - one without any kerf compensation and another set with kerf compensation of about 0.42mm (which is the kerf width of the Chinese 80w CO2 laser ctter present in the makerlab which I can access). The sheets are 400x600mm (which is the working area of that laser cutter) in nesting.

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