CNC Mini-lathe

posted Feb 25th 2008 11:25pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: cnc hacks, misc hacks

Given my obsession of CNC projects, I’m surprised that we haven’t mentioned this project before. [Dave] put together an excellent site about his CNC converted mini-lathe. (The same on that I’ve got) He built a pretty simple stepper controller to drive it. Since the lathe only needed two axis motors, he drove the steppers with some mosfets that he triggered from a parallel port. The site has been around for a while, but I thought you guys would enjoy a classic hack like this one.

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7 Responses to CNC Mini-lathe

Tom says:

February 26, 2008 at 9:23 am

Dave also makes one of the best CNC driver software packages (TurboCNC) available for the hobby/home-shop machinist, and it’s affordable at $65 with complete source code.

robotic regards,

Tom

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a.ntivir.us says:

February 26, 2008 at 9:55 am

Oh how I want…

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JFettig says:

February 26, 2008 at 10:44 am

Hey, I have some plans up on my site if you’d like to build your own real cheap and easy.
http://www.jfettigmachines.com/

Happy CNCing!

Jon

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shbazjinkens says:

February 26, 2008 at 6:54 pm

I’ve got the same machines as Will and I’m in the beginning stages. Designing the stepper driver right now.

Who has ideas for cheap lead drives? I wanted to couple directly but my stepper ain’t powerful enough.

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viv says:

March 3, 2008 at 2:16 am

had made a s/w to control a cnc lathe wihtout using G&M codes … provided a natural language interface for the CNC lathe (used VB AutoCAD and C++Open GL forthe interface and simulation)… if u need any info on this let me know

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bob says:

March 21, 2008 at 10:44 pm

i have seen vgood projects i like to see

can i joint you grates web

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mihir says:

December 13, 2009 at 5:15 am

can you please give a link to the s/w mentioned above
vb autocad & c++.

thx
mihir

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