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INTRODUCTION
A growing number of low-cost, open-source milling machines are available on-line. However, most focus on low-cost components and low-tech manufacturing. Machines such as the 100-dollar milling machine from MIT is very labour-intensive to reproduce.
A small milling machine is only as accurate as its own assembly. Properly aligning all components is a time-consuming job when done by hand. How cost-efficient is such a machine if it takes you over a week to build?
If you could design a compact machine, based on lasercut parts, it should be possible to develop a kit where the hardware can be assembled in a single day of work. Doing the frame as lasercut parts allows you to reproduce the accuracy of the lasercutter, in a kit where everything fits, clicks and snaps into place.
Furthermore, a lasercutter allows you to do a small series on the same machine that produces the prototype.
The miniCNC can be assembled by a novice builder from the kit parts in 14 hours. That is from a box of parts to a working machine in one weekend.
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SEPTEMBER 25th 2011 - We published version 1.08 of our machine. See Downloadsor Thingiverse for the DXF-file,
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