Paused for the summer is the CNC milling machine project, but an eye is being kept on suitable electronics. My set-up has external stepper motor driver boxes, and so on-board drivers are superfluous.

It’s a great time to be a hobbyist. No matter how you feel about the Arduino/Raspberry Pi effect, the influx of general enthusiasm and demand it has created translates to better availability of ...

Milling and routing flat surfaces is pretty much the point of a CNC router, but how about curved surfaces? Auto leveling of hobby CNC machines and 3D printers is becoming commonplace, but Scorch Works ...

The cnc lathe project needs a controller to replace the 40 year old custom controller within the lathe. It is a shame this has to be done, as it was capable of automated thread cutting, which appears ...

If I had to do it all over again, I'd get the cheapest entry-level CNC router that I could learn on to start and then use that to determine if I was going to stick with the hobby. Then, I'd skip past ...