Thread: Oops, I just bought this....
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23-08-2012 #10
It was the 4th axis that swung it... apart from PCB I have some ideas about building a quadcopter I designed a while back,. It uses delrin or similar spars with integral motor mounts and needs a 4th axes to machine them in one operation (yes you could do some on mill, some on lathe). Also I think this could double as a 3D printer with an extruder mounted in the spindle collet and a heat bed on the table, that way I get 2 machines in the space of one... and this has the Z-space that a CNC-router of the same footprint wouldn't have.
Doesn't need a MACH conversion as such, its a straight parallel port connection and I already have MACH3 and EMC2 on a dual boot Pentium 4, so just needs a config. But going to drive it from my Pi too...
I did wonder... I only saw it and jumped in with 15min to go... a very quick google suggested it was worth more than what was currently bid and so I bid some way below what I thought it'd go for... I was quite surprised when I won! Got a nice perpex box with coolant tray to go with it which isn't in the pics. Will be picking it up next couple of weeks... TBH what you picked up is a better bet for the sort of stuff you'll be doing I suspect, larger work area, but this is fine for my needs and if not, well it'll go back on eBay and I'll not lose a lot on it i reckon, esp as it'll now be in London.
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