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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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

Posted at 9:23 am on Feb 26th, 2008 by Tom

Oh how I want…

Posted at 9:55 am on Feb 26th, 2008 by a.ntivir.us

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

Posted at 10:44 am on Feb 26th, 2008 by JFettig

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.

Posted at 6:54 pm on Feb 26th, 2008 by shbazjinkens

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

Posted at 2:16 am on Mar 3rd, 2008 by viv

i have seen vgood projects i like to see

can i joint you grates web

Posted at 10:44 pm on Mar 21st, 2008 by bob