• Large area CNC router

    The Maslow is a large format CNC router capable of cutting wood and other materials with precision and repeatability, based on a digital file. A CNC (computer numerical control) machine allows manufacturers to automate the cutting process...

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  • Portable portrait painter

    There are probably more than a hundred Arduino-based printing machines on the internet with instructions available for making them. What makes this project unique is the built-in camera and screen. Other plotters must be connected to a...

    • Posted 3 years ago
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  • Eggbot: the robot that draws on eggs!

    The project consists of creating an eggbot, an artistic robot that can draw on spherical or egg-shaped objects using an Arduino Uno development board. This project is a good introduction to CNC machines because you can learn...

    • Posted 3 years ago
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  • 3D Printed Mini CNC Machine

    In this project we will see how to create a 3D printed CNC machine. It’s just a prototype, but once it’s built you will surely be able to build a larger, more accurate one. The principle will...

    • Posted 3 years ago
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  • Laser Drawing Machine

    Draw phosphorescent light trails with a machine designed and built completely from scratch! More info

    • Posted 4 years ago
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  • How to Make a CNC Plotter

    Numerical control(also computer numerical control, and commonly called CNC) is the automated control of machining tools (drills, boring tools, lathes) and 3D printers by means of a computer. A CNC machine processes a piece of material (metal,...

    • Posted 4 years ago
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  • Mini Drawing Bot – Live Android App – Trignomentry

      Build your own mini drawing bot! It’s a CNC-like machine that prints on paper what you draw on your smartphone. It’s an easy-to-make open source project which uses very cheap hardware. What are you waiting for?...

    • Posted 4 years ago
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  • CNC controller with ESP32

    In the DIY world, GRBL (a CNC controller based on Arduino) has now taken over MACH3’s place, at least in its simplest forms. Of course, it can’t provide the complete functionality and the power of a controller...

    • Posted 5 years ago
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  • Poseidon: Open Source Syringe Pump and Microscope System

    Developed by students at the California Institute of Technology, Poseidon is an open source alternative to commercial syringe pump and microscope system. The Poseidon microscope consists of a Raspberry Pi, touch screen module, and commercially available digital...

    • Posted 5 years ago
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  • DIY a CNC Machine With a Dremel As a Spindle

    The maker Nikodem Bartnik has just created a 3d printed CNC machine that’s able to cut MDF and acrylic and can engrave aluminum. As for how well this CNC machine works, it’s pretty good. With the Gcode to cut...

    • Posted 5 years ago
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  • CUTTING PLOTTER FOR POLYSTYRENE

        [bctt tweet=”CUTTING PLOTTER FOR POLYSTYRENE creates shapes of every kind, carving them hot, starting from polystyrene foam or sheet and other materials with low melting temperature. Let’s use it to make Christmas decorations and find...

    • Posted 6 years ago
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  • Engraving PCBs by means of a CNC

      Let’s prepare the G-code, starting from the Gerber file, so to finally print our PCB. In the previous installment, we left you after having analyzed the hardware that enables us to manage our CNC by means...

    • Posted 7 years ago
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  • Controlling our simple CNC Miling Machine via USB

      Let’s print the PCBs by means of our CNC machine, that this time has been fitted with a controller that connects to a PC via USB, that draws the control signals and that regenerates timed pulses,...

    • Posted 7 years ago
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  • Presenting a robust and simple CNC Milling Machine

      Supplied with a robust chassis (made of plastics) and with three stepper motors, it is provided with a 9,000 RPM electro-spindle, to which it is possible to apply different kinds of milling parts, for the purpose...

    • Posted 7 years ago
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  • EggBot: Would you like to draw on things that are impossible to print on?

    If you’d like to do it, I think that the EggBot is perfect for you! The EggBot is a compact, easy to use open-source art robot that can draw on spherical or egg-shaped objects. Not just eggs...

    • Posted 7 years ago
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  • Tarocco: Open Source Closed Loop Motor Controller

    Useful project on CrowdSupply currently, 36 days running to fund it and get one of the early birds discounted price boards! Desktop CNC machinery typically uses stepper motors, often because they result in lower system cost, since...

    • Posted 7 years ago
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  • The First Desktop Waterjet Cutter by WAZER, 500% funded in 2 days on Kickstarter

    Amazing product and 500% funded in only two days, here is Wazer, the first desktop waterjet cutter, that will be also open sourced (the hardware part at least): WAZER is the first waterjet cutter that can fit...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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  • Open-Source CNC Farming Machine Reimagines Food Production

    It’s open-source. It’s customizable. And it’s just as exciting to gardeners as is it is to garage tinkerers. Meet FarmBot, humanity’s first open-source Computer Numeric Control (CNC) farming machine. FarmBot is a CNC machine comprised of a...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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