{"id":62,"date":"2017-09-27T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joshsprojects.wordpress.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:30:14","slug":"cnc-router-age-1516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"CNC Router (Age 15\/16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of my projects use sheet material as the main material. My usual way of making parts out of sheet materials was to design on graph paper, stick it onto the material using a glue stick, roughly cut it out using a jigsaw and then sand and file it down to shape. This was a very tedious method, and I saw it necessary to build a CNC Router in order to automate these tasks and also enable me to make more intricate things.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably noticed a common theme with my machines now: they&#8217;re all cheap. This machine is no different, and I had to go about this with a budget of about \u00a3150. I used skateboard bearings riding on steel rectangular tubes and<\/p>\n<p>The machine was a massive success, costing \u00a360 for the mechanical assembly, \u00a330 for the router and around \u00a370 for the electronics (although I did need to replace a faulty stepper driver). It has a build area of about 500x500mm, and a Z-axis depth of about 50mm, which is perfect for milling sheets up to 18mm thick. I have used this machine extensively, with all of the parts for the Plybot&nbsp;and the frame for the DesktopWorkshop being milled on it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CNC Router Milling Frame for the PlyBot\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xm7mLOJNHrg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of my projects use sheet material as the main material. My usual way of making parts out of sheet materials was to design on graph paper, stick it onto the material using a glue stick, roughly cut it out using a jigsaw and then sand and file it down to shape. This was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/?p=62\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CNC Router (Age 15\/16)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuamitchell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}