Have a mill that you’d like to automate? Perhaps you can gets some ideas from the work [James] recently finished. Using familiar NEMA 23 stepper motors (the same motors used in the RepRap), he hacked ...

Major Tool & Machine has been on track to retrofit more than a dozen of its giant milling and turning machines. MTM managers said the transition process has been an enlightening experience for the ...

One of the original ideas behind the RepRap project was for the machines to create their own upgrades. That philosophy is shining brightly in [Ivan Miranda] CNC milling machine project, which has been ...

Ebay and Amazon are awash with ‘isolated’ boards that convert pwm to 0-10V analogue, but they appear to be isolated in the sense that they an break an earth loop – great for machine control problem ...

The Shapeoko from Inventables in Chicago is said to be the world's first open-source CNC mill that can create precision parts from plastic, wood, and metal. The kits to build the machines cost from ...

Other Machine Co. CEO Danielle Applestone is audibly excited. She has something she really wants to show me during our video chat before she gets down to the proper business of firing up her demo.