HI All, I am a retired machinist and I have a little experience
running and programing CNC. I have a drill press that with a X, Y axis
milling vice on it. I do a little milling on little home shop
projects. I have morris taper endmill attachments and it don't do to
bad . I would like to run the x,y axises with a program like Emc. I
have a couple of stepping motors Nema 17 I think. Came out of old dot
matrix printer. I thought maybe they would pull the little table for
milling maybe geared down with a timing belt drive. If it would feed 10
inches a min I would be happy. I have and old computer 155 MHZ I
thought maybe to install xubuntu and Emc if the machine is fast enough
. I have some experience with Linux programs but but probably barely
past the newby stage. I think it would be fun to play with and I don't
expect much out of this but some good learning and experience. Maybe
cut some aluminumor plastic parts. Does this sound feasable? I guess
I need to know how steep is the learning curve to get Emc hooked up
through steppers and motors to run such a thing. I don't really want to
have to get a degree in something to do this. I could buy all this but
that wouldn't be much fun.
Thanks for any advise,
Doug
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