While surfing the net for stepper motor drive schemes for microcontrollers, saw a review of this CNC router for under $1700.00, which got me a little excited. I've been wanting one for years, but prices starting around $3,000 is a little much for a toy. Building one is beyond my skills (weak fabrication skills).
Went to the Sears website and read the advertisement, watch the video, sound like a truely awesome tool. Was tempted to buy one right then. Kind of wanted to see some customer reviews, but wasn't any, least not without doing some searching through the website. Kind killed my enthusiasm, seems like it works great for some, others had problems straight out of the box, or before their first board was finished. Think I'l wait a while and see where it goes.
Did some more searching on the web, and read some comments on the CNC forum. About the same as the customer reviews. Did learn that it's good for woodcarving, but much of the other stuff it's suppose to do is better done with other tools. One pretty cool thing, you can get a digitizing stylus, to make copies of stuff.
A CNC router would be a cool tool, but don't think this one could drill PCBs. I still like the woodcarving examples, and could definately use it for that. I do some metal casting, and wood can be used as a mold.
Anybody have one of these, or thinking about getting one? I'm still considering the purchase (tough to resist when you have the cash).
Went to the Sears website and read the advertisement, watch the video, sound like a truely awesome tool. Was tempted to buy one right then. Kind of wanted to see some customer reviews, but wasn't any, least not without doing some searching through the website. Kind killed my enthusiasm, seems like it works great for some, others had problems straight out of the box, or before their first board was finished. Think I'l wait a while and see where it goes.
Did some more searching on the web, and read some comments on the CNC forum. About the same as the customer reviews. Did learn that it's good for woodcarving, but much of the other stuff it's suppose to do is better done with other tools. One pretty cool thing, you can get a digitizing stylus, to make copies of stuff.
A CNC router would be a cool tool, but don't think this one could drill PCBs. I still like the woodcarving examples, and could definately use it for that. I do some metal casting, and wood can be used as a mold.
Anybody have one of these, or thinking about getting one? I'm still considering the purchase (tough to resist when you have the cash).