Greetings!

[irving2008]

Welcome Paul

Sounds like you have about the same space I do.

We have a number of home-built routers/mills here..

What lathe & mill do you have?

Where abouts in the UK.. feeling its north, Yorks maybe?

Would be interested in your PIC solution as I have been playing around with similar ideas

regards,
Irving...

[paul.camilleri]

Hi Irving,

Thanks. Im based in (sunny?) Dagenham but originally hail from Canada. On the PIC stuff, I'm working with the 16F877A using Proteus+MPLab+SourceBoost C+asm. Got fed up with manually drilling PCB's for different projects and looked arround for a mechanised solution. Came across CNC - and their crazy prices too! Researched a lot and decided to build my own. Going for a moving gantry design that will drill but also hold a plasma cutter. Anyway, that's the journey I'm on.

Got to say, during my research/reading, I've come across many folks with a lot of knowledge and it reminds me of the days I was mentored back in '77 (I was just 17 then) on Sprint Collet lathes, Monforts etc. It's the same straight talking kind of people I held in regard then as I find myself still learning from now.

Best regards

Paul C.

[irving2008]

Hi Irving,

Thanks. Im based in (sunny?) Dagenham but originally hail from Canada. On the PIC stuff, I'm working with the 16F877A using Proteus+MPLab+SourceBoost C+asm. Got fed up with manually drilling PCB's for different projects and looked arround for a mechanised solution. Came across CNC - and their crazy prices too! Researched a lot and decided to build my own. Going for a moving gantry design that will drill but also hold a plasma cutter. Anyway, that's the journey I'm on.

Got to say, during my research/reading, I've come across many folks with a lot of knowledge and it reminds me of the days I was mentored back in '77 (I was just 17 then) on Sprint Collet lathes, Monforts etc. It's the same straight talking kind of people I held in regard then as I find myself still learning from now.

Best regards

Paul C.

Paul,

Thats the reason I'm building (one project amongst many) a small router as I have a number of electronics projects I want to do but hate etching PCBs (and my wife isnt that keen on me doing it in the house anyway) and i dont have the funds for manufactured prototype boards.

Would be interested in discussing your PIC controller ideas at some point.

rgds
Irving...