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This page is about resources for building computer controlled machines: Milling machines, Laser Cutters, FDM 3D Printers, etc..

Resources

• CBA Motion Control Resources http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/S62.12/motion_control.html

Milling

Milling machines

ShopBot Milling Machine

Precix Milling Machine

Milling path

RhinoCam

Laser Cutting

Laser Cutting machines

Epilog_Laser_Cutter

http://wiki.fablabbcn.org/Epilog_Laser_Cutter

Spirit GE

Laser Cutting path

Software

Firmware

GRBL - CNC Controller firmwares for Arduino

• http://dank.bengler.no/-/page/show/5470_grbl

TinyG - All-in-one solution (software and hardware) forked from the GRBL project

• https://www.synthetos.com/wiki/index.php?title=Projects:TinyG

All in-one Boards

• ARM base http://smoothieware.org/
• ARM base http://www.3dprinting-r2c2.com/?q=content/r2c2-documentation
• ArduinoMEGA based http://reprap.org/wiki/RAMBo
• https://github.com/synthetos/TinyG/wiki

Motor Drivers

Motor Drivers IC's by Allegro

• http://www.allegromicro.com/en/Products/Categories/ICs/motor.asp

Motor Drivers Solutions by Geckodrive

• http://www.geckodrive.com/categories.html

Stepper Drivers by Allegro IC's

• http://www.allegromicro.com/en/Products/Part_Numbers/3982/
• http://www.allegromicro.com/en/Products/Part_Numbers/3977/

Arduino Shields for driving CNC's

• http://www.synthetos.com/wiki/index.php?title=Projects:grblShield is designed to work with the GRBL arduino firmware http://dank.bengler.no/-/page/show/5470_grbl

Standalone USB 2 channels stepper driver (based on the TI DRV8811)

• http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10025

Stepper Driver boards based on the Allegro 3982 / 3977

• http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1201 (12.95$ !)
• http://makeyourbot.org/a3982-1-0
• http://reprap.org/wiki/Stepper_Motor_Driver_2.3
• http://wiki.makerbot.com/thingomatic-doc:stepper-driver-3-3
• http://schmalzhaus.com/EasyDriver/
• http://www.schmalzhaus.com/EasyDriverQuad/index.html

Motors

• Stepper motor
• Stepper Motors (up to NEMA 34) http://www.linengineering.com/line/contents/stepmotors/

Interesting Projects

• http://makeyourbot.org
• http://labs.nortd.com/lasersaur/
• http://mtm.cba.mit.edu/
• http://www.makerbot.com/
• http://reprap.org/
• http://buildlog.org/