Absolutely mesmerizing. You may or may not know the inspiration you instill in others. There must be hundreds whose lives you have made so much more active and productive. Thank you. I'm hooked.

Watched your video expecting the same old stuff other people do, and wow..... Bril. Love the way you took time in explaining setups, loved the way the whole thing was done, and ended up subscribing. Cheers from the UK.

This is everything I imagined it would be. I'm so excited to learn the whole build from you!

I like the way your CNC build is adaptable for so many uses. A GREAT idea is the exchangeable carrier that fits into the Z axis frame allowing a quick change to other tools for other projects / purposes, very inventive! A CNC drawing, routing, engraving, cutting, welding, etc. machine. I've got to copy yours (hope you don't mind). The absolute only changes I would modify would be to use all sealed bearings and to enlarge the frame to accept a 4x8 sheet of stock material.

Wow man, its a pleasure to see you work with such passion and perfection for each milimeter.

This is the closest thing to a real DIY CNC machine I have ever seen, I need to make one since the cnc routers out there are super expensive ($2000) and not really that useful, I wanna see your plasma cutter version, subscribed.

@colinroberson9373

8 жыл бұрын

It's pretty suprising how little CNC tutorials there are considering there is an arduino API for it

I have seen all the parts of the video . very nice job and competent man . these videos must be shown to the students in high schools .

Nice see The Machine work in progress, nice man... your frame is to me a best I ever see in web.

Voçê é o cara! meu valeu pela iniciativa de compartilhar o que voçê faz com perfeição, digno de um grande engenheiro. O mundo dos jovens precisa de pessoas como voçê, que tira um pouco do seu tempo precioso pra mostra essa e outras maravilhas da mecatrônica. Ficou Show, fica com DEUS.

I'll do one equall here in Brazil! Thanks for sharing your experience! The best of me to you!

Wow, what a incredible job. I really like your design. Can wait to see the welding and cutting attachments. Keep up the good work !!!!!

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

+David Bloom Thank you David, I appreciate your kind words!

That is excellent work. I'm working a CNC build myself, and excited to know about EASEL. I've used BlenderCAM and I really like it as well.

I will be building a CNC project. This video covered alot of the questions I had. Motor calibration, what software and how to use it. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride.

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

+King Red Leg Thanks and good luck with your build. Let me know if you have any questions as you go along.

@johnware5312

8 жыл бұрын

There are many ways to go with a self made CNC. The from scratch/no plans method, as here and the way I did mine, Plans available on the net, and kits. Personally I DO NOT recommend the scratch approach unless a person had a far better that average experience with mechanics in general. To do a good CNC you have to work with tolerances below about 20 thou. The tighter, the better. With wood anything no less than about 30 thou or a 32nd will work fine. The other critical thing is keeping things squared up and parallel. Deviate from that by more than say half a second or roughly 120th of a degree and the accuracy goes to pot on anything you make. This is tough to hold even in a kit build. Then there is the drive issues. Best to get is ball screws but you will think you're financing a moon launch with the price of those. Acme thread is reasonable and affordable. In fact you will find it used in most commercial CNC type of machinery like lathes. It looks like all thread with square threads. Bottom is all thread. The thread pitch IS very precise but the major and minor diameters of the thread is a whole nother issue. In all cases you will have backlash to deal with.. Run a nut up on a bolt and notice the wobble in that nut. Thats backlash. It can be dealt with but the less there is to start with, the less you have to do. Bearings and what they ride on are another. Top of the line is whats known as linear bearings. Something else that is also in the moon launch price range. Common skate mid range skater bearings have tolerances in the range of say .0005 and they are CHEAP. Use them on steel square tubing available at the local home depot and its easy to stay within a couple thou flat all the way. I use V-rollers at about 9 bux a pop running on the edge of some 3/4 angle. You can use a couple skate bearings mounted in a V to ride on the square corner of the same 3/4 angle but it has problems in adjusting out the slop. I chose to pay the extra in cost for ease of mounting and adjustments. Then there's the electronics issue. I chose to go with a program Called Mach 3, around $150 ( best I recall), using an old computer Ive had for at least 15 years. Thats functionally the same as the common adruino setting on a G-shield or some other driver board such as this build. My setup is almost identical to what you will find in the average smal to mid sized 3-axis CNC commercially made. In fact a huge number of them actually use Mach 3. There is basically nothing wrong with the Audrino/gshilerd or driver setup and it functions quite nicely for many but it does not have the versatility of Mach 3. Price wise - ignoring the steppers- works like this.. My setup in the neighborhood of $300 Adurino Most likely somewhere around $75. Software wise--- the total price for all the software I normaly use - somewhere around $500 to $650. This does NOT include the $150 for Mach 3 that is the equivalent to the part of the online Easel program in the mode of the actual cutting. Then thees the steppers. smal ones can be had for nothing by junking out any inkjet but the power is so low you cant do squat with them. Small stranded NEMA17 size can go for about $15 to $20. This is what this guy used. NEMA 23s like I use go from about $30 to around $80 depending on the torque. The large size ones, NEMA 37 ( i think) go from around $100 up but are NOT needed unless you're moving car motors around. Then there is the spindle.. FORGET the cheap 300 watt ones unless all you want to do is scratch up some plastic or brass. I have one and I DO use it for engraving work and chewing on plastics and aluminum where I must have good speed control. Its super slow go with it. Normally I use a Ridged brand trim router the rest of the time. Go with any of the small hand held trim routers. Also order up a couple set of brushes for it too. They go faster than you would think on a CNC. Theyre gutsy enough to make huge clouds of sawdust. STAY AWAY from the Harbor freight ones, theyre over priced garbage. I toasted 2 of them just carving out half a dozen 12 by 16 inch fancy lattice panels out of underlayment for a guy. The one this guy used IS harbor freight Junk. Surprises me he hasnt smoked it. This is one place where going cheap can AND WILL bite you in the butt. The money for the trim router turns to smoke, the job gets trashed also burning money. Just consider what nice chunk of say walnut costs. The costs are worth it to me and I acquired the software over a few years so its nowhere as costly as you would first think. You can easily blow a couple or 3 hundred trying to tag a deer. Bottom line and a warning. CNCs are a blast and HABIT FORMING.. Hope my bit of rambling gives you some REAL info on the CNC addiction. :)

@lmeza1983

8 жыл бұрын

+John Ware Im planning on building my first cnc machine anytime soon but the cheapest motors I can find are Nema 27 425oz ( using tb6560 and a power supply 24V 350W) think they would be enough for working on aluminium and engraving steel? assuming I got a smooth rail of course.

@johnware5312

8 жыл бұрын

425s will give you all the power you need if you use some form of lead screw. I use a 5 start 10 pitch one on my X and Y. In essence one rev of a stepper gives a half inch of travel. With 2x micro stepping engaged one rev works out to 400 steps a rev or 800 per inch. That gives a resolution of 0.00125 inch. That 5 start lead screw lets me run rapids at around 375 ipm if I want. I have it set to 200 so there isnt anywhere near the jerking around on ramp up sand ramp downs of the steppers running at 375 ipm. 3 foot 1/2 inch 10 pitch acme threaded rod is right at 10 bucks. Bit more than all thread but it has far better accuracy. More than likely any form of belt or chain drive using 425's can most likely allowin complete stalling of the steppers, havent verified it but that opion is based on how easy I can stall a 425 with a 2 inch disk on the shaft buy simply clamping down tight with my hand on that disk. 425 oz/in is roughly 2.2 foot pounds.. Steppers dont rate like any motor. the rating is HOLDING torque, where with a normal motor its rotating force. Keep in mind that going too cheap is not going to get good results. 150 bux for 3 steppers isnt bad when you consider what the rest can cost. :)

@Karlemilstorm

6 жыл бұрын

ME TOO. This video series is so fucking cool!

WOW,Hats off buddy.It was best video i ever watched about CNC and your Frame Table was awesome very simple i m from Pakistan and soon will start my own CNC then i will bother you for some questions. Thanx a lot for your great work and time

Enjoy watching you work.. Please keep posting!

yes you can .... what a marvelous work you have done !!!!!!!!!

Totally DIY, you did it. Works fine, nice skills there.

Wow it works well. Hats off to you sir. Nice job!!! Thanks for sharing.

brilliant I have just finished a x y sprayer on a budget and that works really to

You're a genius! I've mounted a 3d printer (Prusa) and it was a kick in the ass!

amazing job you did there!!! i wish i had all those tools and that workshop :D and those skills too subscribed and waiting to see the welding part!! that would be awesome!!

Love the CNC Mill you did a good job on it

Building one based off your design. I just sent away for the parts and tools (I had none) Ill need to construct it after saving up for months. Very inspiring build.

@AbsorberofLight

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks and good luck!

This is amazing. I am still making my CNC writer(only x and y axis). When I have enough money to buy the equipment I need,I will try to make a machine like yours. Oh , by the way , I major in mechanical engineering,too.

Is very nice and easy to do,excuse me english I am Mexican and when I finish cnc ,hope work like yours.

Excellent project and as didactic way to explain.I advise me to make one for cutting. Congrats

wow! this will save me a ton of time. I've been trying to find a cnc program for my metal contraption.

These are excellent videos. Thank you very much for taking the time to make and share. Great series.

@gera6376

7 жыл бұрын

Jim Jamer

Muchas gracias,im working in my CNC ,your channel have been a great help to make my own..TKS a Lot!!!

This is an awesome series, thanks for sharing!

Thank you your work is great. Wish you the best in work and in Every thing you do in your life.

That trim router mount is about as direct and effective as one could make. I wasted days working out a machined mount for that same oddball body shape before dumping it and going to a Craftsman 1/4" router body I found at the junk store. I may go back to the HFT now that I've seen your mount. Thanks!

@AbsorberofLight

7 жыл бұрын

I recommend that trim router from HFT. I've had it running continously for HOURS and it's still going! Not bad for less than $20

you really built a good machine, thanks man.

good job, I would like to make a cnc, and hope to soon follow some of your steps, thanks for sharing, Greetings

good job my cnc project is based on your videos... keep up the good job regards from romania

Super impressive! I need one now.

muchas felicitaciones le quedó muy bien la cnc seguiré muchas de las buenas prácticas q tiene para trabajar yo estoy trabajando en una gracias por poner sus videos

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

Gracias a usted señor Ruben.

Very good, creative work.

like this series. your doing pretty awesome.

Amazing video and nice work!!!!!!

nice man i like your rig one of the best diy rig you got me over the hurtle i have 3 motors and arduino so ill be getting more crap n getting her done ..God bless n howdy frum east tn

Beastly CNC & good Easel tutorial! Well thought out design. Wish you'd use an auto darkening welding helmet set to 11 safer than closing your eyes.

nice work, very nice work Thanks for sharing

Muito bom, bela garagem de ferramentas, acompanho a evolução de sua CNC está cada vez melhor, posta mais vídeos valeu....Merry Christmas...

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

+9mm Obrigado por assistir , eu estou feliz que você tenha gostado!

Great job!! Thank you for posting.

Great job on the build. I am super impressed with the accuracy. I am building one also and think I may have under estimated the capability of the humble stepper motor. I am at the point where I mount the spindle or a ball point pen, just to get something drawn. I'm conflicted. ;)

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

+sbirdranch haha! Yep, too many choices;)

really great series! I'm gonna work on my own!

ottimo lavoro.. ottimo presentazione...

Fantastic CNC machine my man, Ive been wanting one for a long while now to make electric guitar bodies. I'd really like to see you make a Fender style jazz bass body, and I'm up for a purchase ;) Nice work from Alan in the UK. CHEERS.

Hi, super nice work and thanks for teaching us to do like this work by our-self, i have question about how you connect the spindle motor?

brilliant work pal

It may seem strange to be commenting six years after the video was posted... I have been using a "Down-cut" spiral router bit recently. It seems wrong to use a cutter that pushes the chips into the cut, but it works fine. The big advantage is that because the spiral pushes the fibres down, there is absolutely no tear-out or fuzzy edges, even on fibrous material like that shown at 15:30.

Parabéns e muito obrigado nós ,apesar de não saber inglês da pra pegar as dicas,que Deus te abençoe

nice work mate. can you please show the wiring connections between uno and driver's and codes setting please....

Hi, congrats for your build, loved it, infact i made on for myself based on your design ! I'm having a little problem, my cnc won't make the drawings in easel, example: i draw a circle, it carves a cros ... have you had this problem ?

I have seen all your cnc construccion videos up here, and results be that I was looking for! Finally I understand that software-programing part isn't that hard that I think. THANKS!just a little advice... Go on metric system, all will be more easy and precise.

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, yes it's not that hard with some proper research. I agree about the metric system and use it when making smaller parts. The thing is everything in the US is in inches (tape measure, materials, etc)

fantastic video muy bien amigo hasta la vista

great video, looking forward to more videos

lo felicito señor un grn orgullo industrial desde tío pujio cba Argentina

i love you man, you are world best disigner

Muito boa essa maquina ficou profissional, estou pensando em fazer uma mas to com pouco tempo, quanto tempo vc levou para fazer ?

*Felicidades muy buen trabajo...my friend!*

Great job! Have had you problems with electromagnetic interferences? If so, how did you solve them?

it's great job u did there , not expensive , and it's sure that u a pro in welding , only wanted to ask , does the router start automaticly or manualy ? plz

Awsome videos - probably most comprehensive videos I found. Do you have plans available? Thanks

Dude you rock. Thank you again. Its going to be fun.

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

+Tony Thomas You rock too bro it's always fun!

hey there sorry to ask but am stuck I can get my Arduino working on g coad loader but it will not connect to easel yet I cal load g coad of easel and put it on the loader and it works any idears thanks also very good videos love then very helpful .

How can i do the programing part? And which kind of electronic boards and software do i need??? Plz advice and thanks,

Fantastic !!! very good job

You are just incredible..... AMIGO!!!!

thanks a lot.. however, what stepper motor specifications are you using bro?

That must be the most over engineered cnc machine ive seen on you tube , ,Thanks for great videos glad you explained everything . . .the motors i would of done different way so that they are easy to change if faulty one needs replacing

Te felicito hermano muy buen trabajo

Got Damn You the XYZ Man,Great Job there is no machine you can't make ureself!!Great Work!!

Hi . Nice work!! Do you make the circuit board (the orange) on your own? And how you connect the motor with the long cylinder steel. Thanks

I really enjoyed the series. interestng project and well produced video. When I have the space I would love to make one. perhaps you should get another controller to switch the arc on a few milli seconds before you start moving in the xy plane. the circles looked like you had some gaps due to starting the arc late.

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

Thank man. Yes I've been thinking about that since machines are more precise than humans.

hiii..i am making a cnc machine with arduino uno,a4988 driver and cnc shild problem is x axis stepper motor is moving bt y axis stepper motor is not moving.y axis stepper motor is vibrating

buenisimo el tutorial felicidades y gracias

or can be installed FERM PRM 1015 on the work table?

Congrats on your build. I'd like to build my own cnc myself, but I want to build it twice bigger than yours (1220mm*2440mm). What kind of frame materials should I use to build the cnc machine like yours?

awesome build can't wait to start mine defiantly some good easy solutions you solved. know it been long time hows your build holding up?

Nice scratch build. Not that many people are capable of doing that. I did mine up in autocad inventor then simply cut to the drawings to make the parts. The only thing I would have done different mechanical wise using steel was use bolts in some places where I could easily replace bearings if and when they wear out without a cutting torch. I did mine using acme threads, 450 oz/on nena 23 steppers, a breakout board and clone geko stepper drivers. I use Mach 3 for the controller software. Resulting G0 or wide open is set at 300 IPM but it is capable of about 450 IPM. G1 - or software set travel depends on material, bit and cutting depth. Its all MDF except for the V-bearings and the 3/4 angle iron. Its the same basic design. The V-rollers run on the edge of the angles. As I dont do metals MDF fits my needs. Amazing how stiff it can be when you glue 2 3/4 thick pieces together. Deflection on a foot of 6 inch wide 1.5 inch with a couple hundred pounds hanging on the free end is right at .002. Close enough for me. As the stepper drive current is real low doe to the chips on that board, consider this.... The adruino send a step and direction for each of the 3 steppers. The result is that is EXACTLY the same as what I get out of my breakout board... SOOO if you need more OOMPH simply toss that driver board, pick up a 36 volt 15 amp power supply, a 3 axis geco driver or 3 separate ones and 3 450/0z steppers. NOTHING changes software wise. So when do you do a scratch plasma cutter? hehh

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

+John Ware I appreciate your comment, you know your stuff. I do eventually want to get that Mach 3 software.

@johnware5312

8 жыл бұрын

mach 3 works with a parallel port but as most computers today dont have that I recommend you go with Mach 4 using usb. Goes for 200 bucks You will need to add something like the smooth stepper board. It converts USB to essentially a parallel port out that will interface with a standard parallel port breakout board. I may go that route when my 15 year old computer driving the CNC croaks. a standard usb to parallel port adapter WILL NOT work with Mach 3. Mach 3 will run on w2k xp and the 32 bit version of windows 7 and up. it WILL NOT run on the 64 bit versions.

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

+John Ware Thanks for all the great info!

@johnware5312

8 жыл бұрын

Any time.. :)

Excelente trabajo...!!!

Truly “made from nothing into something “ awesome.

how do I center my bit in easel , I was the zero point at the center of the design?? thanks,

Hi what software are you using for your rotator and it free. Allan

Very smart man your whole build makes it a lot easier to understand the best tutorial I've seen doesn't leave any doubt. I have been playing with servo motors and have a cnc card for my arduino but I think i'll just buy those ezy drivers what you used until I'm more knowledgeable, thanks a lot, i can now move forward again :)

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

Awesome, good luck my friend.

@basilenglish

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, have you tried making wooden gears? there is an awsome gear program on the net called geargenerator.com

@AbsorberofLight

8 жыл бұрын

Oh nice! I'll check it out. EASEL also has a gear generator. I have not made any just yet.

@basilenglish

8 жыл бұрын

would you suggest going up to nema 23 or not? or have you found the nema 17 are good enough

@basilenglish

8 жыл бұрын

3 easy drivers ordered today NZ$20.75 and 10 ABec9 skateboard Bearings ordered NZ$13.54 :), now Looking for lead screws and nema motors, metal is real cheap Atm the Chinese are dumping it NZ$40 for 25x25x 8m

Amazing, great, outstanding job, you really earn my subscription !!!, keep doing that great working my friend ;)

Amazing, well done!!

will you explain exactly how you got gerbil to download to Arduino I am having a heck of a Time trying to get that to download thank you Gary

Bom dia onde tem o projeto de material que usou parabéns ótimo trabalho amigo

Eres un Chingon!!!! Thanks 😊!!!!!! Gracias!!!!! You r the best🥳🥳...

can you give a link with the software I tried everything but easel can't find my cnc

Muy buena! Los motores son nema 17?

How are you controlling the beak? Type turns off.

How is this CNC holding up? Anything you would do different?

De constructor a ñoño, este hombre de ganó unas suscripción conmigo xD

great work man!

SO SIMPLE SO GOOD SO EASY THANKS FOR SHARING U R MY HERO

it's very handy job, thanks for sharing it,i have question regarding electronics,you have used an arduino Uno USB card, NEMA stepper motors for X, Y, Z axes, i believe the gantry had to be driven by two motors instead of one, how was the drag torque of the gantry with one motor?!! was it enough?!! and what is the name of the motor's drive card "the card between motor power feed and arduino card control?!! i would build my own machine very soon.