Most home-built machines are hard or impossible to square. ... Impressive work. I have built 2 CNC machines – a router and mill. Must say, your work is definitely top rate.

A home-made power supply provides 36vdc for the NEMA23 stepper motors. ... I’m not doing any kind of production. I use my cnc machines to make stuff for my hobbies.

CNC systems carry a plasma torch over a table based on programed X-Y axis coordinates. The new at-home plasma machine, the CrossFire , is the brainchild of brothers Mike and Danny Downs.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Rownd tabletop CNC lathe since it showed up on Kickstarter last year, and I was psyched to get the chance to see it in person at CES in Las Vegas this week.