Sebastian Garcia wrote:

> I've designed and built a small CNC router using three old matrix printers
> mechanisms, two wide carriage travel (y axis) an one normal carriage
> ravel( x axis). The reason of the two mechanisms for the y axis is for easy
> preventing of 'sticking' in the non-motory support, without the use of
> precision mechanics. This way, i've mounted the x axis mechanism over the
> carriages of the y axis, and one of the y axis motors is slave of the
> other.
>
> Anyway, and although this system is working (for now, plotting graphics
> using Bresenham's line algorithm), for best results i'll recommend You to
> take the hard way and do the mechanics from zero.


Any pictures?? :o)
-Roman

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