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Making A CNC Milling Machine – CNC Electronics

August 12, 2014 @ 11:15 pm
by Bill Griggs
in Blog, CNC
3 Comments
Making A CNC Milling Machine – CNC Electronics Part 4  CNC Electronics. Making a CNC Milling machine requires you to learn a little bit about CNC electronics. Every CNC machine needs a control box with electronic components which converts electronic signals from the computer into movement. There are many different types of electronics available for CNC.  Most of the electronics fall into three basic categories; motors, control boards or power supplies. Let’s take a look at the CNC electronic components I selected to help make a CNC milling machine. Types of Motors A CNC milling machine generally  have one of […]

Motion Control

October 31, 2013 @ 10:53 pm
by Bill Griggs
in Blog, CNC, Uncategorized
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  I recently had a hard drive controller failure on my CNC computer and had to decide to either replace the motherboard or get a new computer. Most new computers don’t have a printer port anymore so it is getting difficult to find a replacement computer. The old CNC computer used a parallel port (printer port) for Motion Control. You either need to purchase a separate Motion Control add-on card for the computer or you had to try to make a USB adapter work. USB converters by themselves don’t work with Mach3. Mach3 needs to be able to control the […]