As you can see from the second picture the drive electronics are particularly neatly wired.ĭenford also supplied some closed-source software to control the mill. Despite its limited work area the mechanics are nice with strong bearings, NEMA23 motors, and a 1/2 horsepower spindle. It was designed for school use so was fully enclosed with lots of interlocks ideal for training. One of the first tools Reading Hackspace received was a small but sturdy 3-axis CnC Mill. If you know of a CNC hack from your own hackerspace send us the story for a chance to win some loot. This script listens for G-Code and does the translation into the type of commands the machine is expecting to receive. The machine itself wasn’t altered, but a translator script was written in Python after capturing a bunch of packets and working out the protocol. explains the entire project after the break. The project is a Hackaday Hackerspace Henchmen submission from rLab, the Reading Hackspace in the UK. To increase the flexibility of the tool it was hacked to work with G-Code. Here’s a beautiful desktop CNC mill which had one big drawback: it used a proprietary interface for driving it.
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