Why CNC?

[ptjw7uk]

saxonhawthorn I think you are in for a long long learning path as you have not yet arrived at the foot of the cliff.
My cnc conversion has almost been finished and now I am onto the software and that is just as hard as the mechanical side of things, there is just so much to learn.
The information on the subject is a bit thin on the ground and harder still i dont know what to look for in the books etc.
I like you like to do evrything but when I looked into the making of the stepper drivers I balked and bought a box already made so I could concentrate on my mill and oh boy was that a baptism of fire. The only machining I had done was the odd hobby done whilst at work but now I have to buy the tools myself and there are so many! and possibly more I havn't heard of yet.

Peter

[irving2008]

But then again, thats half the fun of it! I, like Ian, prefer to know exactly why something works, but I came to the conclusion some time ago its better to focus on the non-commodity stuff, on the grounds that enough people know about the other already...

Ian, if you go over to the CNCZone.com and look for threads from Mariss or about Gecko drivers there is a good, warts n all, thread documenting the development of a new driver from scratch through to a production item...its interesting but painful reading....