In case someone might be interested, I sent this to DIY-CNC. The Sun Java hexapod was interesting.
--- Begin Message ---On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 14:54 +0000, alexander samuel borsody wrote: > Hey group, I'm a technical writer and researcher for thomasnet.com, > I've > been lurking here on the forum trying to keep up with the discussion. > I > am an sculpture and am currently looking into building my own CNC for > under 2 thousand dollars. Because of this, I'm currently writing an > article on DIY, CNC, and am interested in what people think are the > most > important things to cover, I'm interested in affordable plans and > machines, as well, the essentials, of homebuilt and desktop CNC. > Anyone > who can offer info, please help! for my article i want to create > something that would be useful and or unique, not just similar to > something you find everywhere. These might be worth a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WCrqqoZkPg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKYQUj5AOs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjPCEpZybXs This one is out of your budget, but there may be a way to do a DIY version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH1yUXd9krU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS9oxp0mlw8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhM2bAqwPmY Other videos: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Videos -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC/EMC CNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending Craftsman AA 109 restoration Shizuoka ST-N/EMC CNC)
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