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CNC Building Blocks Project
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ajq ... ing-blocks
We are proud to announce our new "CNC Building Blocks" project on Kickstarter. This project is the culmination of months of work in developing these plastic injection molded parts to make simple DIY CNC Machines. You can join the project on Kickstarter and pledge money to obtain your own set. We are also releasing our first set of CNC Electronics on Kickstarter. These electronics use high powered stepper motor control chips and do all the controls on one compact board!
If you pledge to the Kickstarter project, and don't want to make your own CNC from scratch... we will be selling partial kits after the Kickstarter project finishes. But you have to buy the CNC Building Blocks and electronics on Kickstarter!
Let me know if you have any questions.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ajq ... ing-blocks
Posted By: AJ Quick at Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:59 pm
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The Future of A Quick CNC.
It was one year ago today that we met our funding goal of $10,000 for our Modular CNC Project. It's hard to believe that it's been that long since we started the project here on Kickstarter, as we only recently finished sending out the rewards.
We have learned a lot about production of the CNC machines and have been working on streamlining the process for the last 6 months. We have teamed up with manufacturers from all over North America and Asia to help design and build what we hope will be the next revolutionary CNC project.
The most important (and expensive) part of a CNC machine are the linear movement components. On our CNC machines we used a combination of linear shafts, bushings, and a custom cast Z-axis. Each machine required nearly 20 hours of work to build, test, assemble, and finish these linear components alone. (Times that by nearly 50 machines, and you can understand one of the reasons the rewards took so long to get done).
If we are to continue producing low cost hobby CNC machines, we needed to come up with an alternative. That's why we are currently investing over $30,000 to develop what we think will be the future of low cost CNC. We are working to create our own set of versatile and modular, professionally injection molded linear components. Made from ABS plastic, these parts replace several expensive and complicated parts that would cost hundreds of dollars to be made using off the shelf items. Best of all? Each component takes seconds to manufacture, and each one is absolutely perfect. The assembly takes minutes instead of hours, and they maintain a higher level of precision compared to existing parts. As the parts continue on with our modular theme, any kind of CNC machine can be developed around them, making them perfect for DIY CNC'ers. (And of course all parts are backwards compatible with our Kickstarter CNC machine).
We are working to have these parts made available in the next few months. We hope that we could start a new Kickstarter project for this CNC Project, as well as for other new DIY CNC designs. We'll post an update should that happen, but we also recommend checking out our website for information: http://www.aquickcnc.com/
Shown below is a rendering of the parts, in addition to an amazing ABS prototype we have had made.
Posted By: AJ Quick at Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:12 am
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New CNC Store Launched! Upgrades Available!
We've had a few questions about the remaining kits. We have another 8 kits to go out tomorrow, and then its just a few kits that need to work out final arragements for shipping. We're almost done! If you have a question about shipping, or your place on the list please let us know. We hope to be completely done by next week so we can move on to our next production run.
That being said.. our new CNC store is now online!
http://www.aquickcnc.com/store/
This is where you can buy upgrade parts for our machines (which are slowly becoming available), and full machines (if you missed out on backing our Kickstarter project). The shopping cart is probably still kind of buggy (we wrote it from scatch!) but so far it appears to be working well.
Our forums are also alive with awesome projects and builds from fellow backers. We highly recommend signing up to check it out, and look at all the awesome things our backers are doing with their CNC machines. The creativity is really starting to flow, and we are very excited for what it will bring!
http://www.aquickcnc.com/forums/
Posted By: AJ Quick at Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:16 pm
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Shipping Updates & Tutorials
We've gotten a lot of comments and messages from people who want to know about shipping updates. We've been sending out machines in the last two weeks. If you haven't gotten a message about it yet, it means we just haven't gotten to you on the list yet (with nearly 50 machines, that list is long!). Right now we have about 40% of the rewards shipped out and hope to have that number bumped up to 70% by the end of the week. If you are still waiting, please feel free to shoot us a message to let us know that you are still out there. It would also be beneficial for those who are still waiting for their shipping notice to also send us your current address and a phone number where FedEx can reach you (if you are in the US). We will also try to let you know before we package your machine
We've also finished our assembly tutorial and anti-backlash tutorials. We'll have a few more up shortly, like how to connect your machine to your computer and set it up in Mach3.
http://www.aquickcnc.com/tutorials/
Some backers are already using our machines to make cool stuff. Here is a video we just recieved!
Posted By: AJ Quick at Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:23 pm
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Video & Shipping Updates
Time for another update, and this is an exciting one. We've been making the final arrangements for the shipping. Many of you have been contacted to arrange for shipping, and some of you have even gotten tracking numbers and shipment notifications. We are in the home stretch of having everything finished and ready to go and that is very exciting.
We ask that everyone who pledged to please look at their backer report that they sent in February and ensure that the shipping addresses are correct. If they are not, please send us a message as soon as possible.
Now for something AWESOME.
Our backer in Colorado (that got the first machine last month) finally got everything setup to his liking and shot this video for us tonight showing the machine in action. I'm sorry that this was one of the first videos of the machine actually cutting... but we think the wait was worth it!
Posted By: AJ Quick at Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:42 am
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