Buildbotics any body ever Use?

[Bill George]

But can you actually do something with it? Thinking of getting rid of a good drill press that never gets used and taking on this below as another project. But has anyone used the Buildbotics controller that has been suggested on another site?

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[John TenEyck]

OneFinity use Buildbotics controllers.

John

[Bill George]

OneFinity use Buildbotics controllers.

John

Ok thanks John this will be yet another CNC project build.

[Brian Lamb]

Centroid Acorn. A friend of mine has done a half dozen of those machines with larger steppers and Acorn and they work pretty well. Motor becomes the weakest link, but a 1 or 2hp Chinese spindle on it would solve that.

[David Buchhauser]

I have the Centroid Acorn/cnc12 combination on several of my 3-axis cnc machines and am quite happy with the performance, ease of use, and reliability.
David

[Bill George]

Centroid Acorn. A friend of mine has done a half dozen of those machines with larger steppers and Acorn and they work pretty well. Motor becomes the weakest link, but a 1 or 2hp Chinese spindle on it would solve that.

Are they sturdily enough to do steel with light cuts?

[richard newman]

Picture is too small for me, what machine is that?

[Bill George]

Its a Dynamyte 2400 CNC and OEM software and controller from the 80's. Folks are reusing the 48 vdc Power supply and stepper motors, and some of the limits. I have worked with Mach4 and can do with that but the Buildbotics comes with just about everything you need for about $500.

[Brian Lamb]

Yes, with small cutters, probably not bigger than 1/4", carbide and small depth of cut and width of engagement. 3/16" would probably do better. I have some videos on my YouTube channel of one that I did a bunch of test running for my friend.

https://youtu.be/drMcrCXpMoQ