{"id":1,"date":"2010-06-04T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivcity.com\/cnc\/?p=1"},"modified":"2016-03-23T15:27:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:27:51","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, recently my brother and I have decided to build our own CNC machine. A commercial unit can be very expensive, while a home-built unit can be significantly cheaper. I’m going to keep this site up-to-date the best I can with our progress and tons of photos.<\/p>\n

Right now we’re looking at building something around 24″ x 36″ for doing wood work and aluminum. I’m in charge of all the electronics on this project, so my first decision was to purchase the well regarded Pro kit from HobbyCNC.com<\/a>. With this, I got the 3-axis controller board (kit) and 3 305-oz stepper motors, which I felt were sufficient for our project. I ordered this on June 1st, and it arrived June 4th, just 3 days! Dave over at HobbyCNC does a great job, as I’ve heard he’s done for several years now. I’m very pleased so far!<\/p>\n

While waiting for the kit to arrive, I went ahead and picked up the 24V 10A transformer required for the power supply (pretty much the only thing not included with the electronics kit). \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

HobbyCNC<\/a> lists a couple sources for this. The first option would cost $58! I don’t think so. Luckily, option #2 is from MPJA<\/a> is about 1\/3 the price, which happens to be located just down the road from me. So, I drove up and picked up my transformer for just $18!<\/p>\n

EDIT: 2\/16\/2015 – Wow, talk about inflation… MPJA still has these, but the price is now up to $29.95.<\/p>\n

EDIT: 3\/23\/2016 – Price for those transformers is now $35.95 on MPJA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, recently my brother and I have decided to build our own CNC machine. A commercial unit can be very expensive, while a home-built unit can be significantly cheaper. I’m going to keep this site up-to-date the best I can with our progress and tons of photos. Right now we’re looking at building something around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beginning-electronics","content-columns-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearprojects.com\/cnc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}