I am glad to be posting an update with something new after working on the same things for nearly 3 weeks! The plastic Z-axis parts are hitting the final stretch after more than 140 hours of work. There are only a few more sets of parts to be made for the plastic Z-axis. They should be finished in ab...

Just wanted to post a very brief update. The work on the stepper motors is underway. Each one is getting wired to the cable assembly that had been done in the previous updates. In addition the acme leadscrews have arrived and will be cut to length soon. Work for the next week includes: Continued cas...

One of the most critical components to this project has arrived, the stepper motors. Without them the computer controlled movement would be impossible! I was very surprised when they showed up today as they were shipped only a week ago and faced some delays in customs. We thought the process would b...

Just a quick update. The process of making the Z-axis from plastic has begun and is proving to be a time consuming process. The amount of time required for each of the components is likely to be closer to 5-6 hours vs. 2-3 hours. It will slow down the process a little bit. Here are some photos of a ...

I was told by a backer today that our updates were too far and few between... and as a result that meant we weren't doing any work. That couldn't have been farther from the truth. While we wanted to give updates every day a lot of what is going on is quite boring and tedious work. It’s not the cool ...

The last few days have been spent working on the cable wire assemblies for the CNC machines. There wasn't a leadtime on the wires required for the machines, and the connectors were ordered back in January. We are still waiting on the motors to finish these (and all the other parts of course!). So fa...

The money from the Kickstarter project has arrived and is already being well spent. Many parts have been put on credit cards to help speed up the delivery time. Another item we ordered a little while ago has arrived, a pallet of custom packaged Bosch Palm routers. They are 1 horsepower routers that ...

Lots of people are anxiously awaiting more news about our project! Just to let everyone know... it's coming. The main thing we have now is a waiting game for parts to arrive. We previously mentioned that we would be charging a lot of items to our credit card and then using the funds to pay that back...

I just want to thank everyone who has supported us and backed our project. The last 45 days have been very hectic and stressful, but in the end will be worth all of the trouble. We reached our goal in 5 days and smashed through it almost 5 times over! Now the real work begins. Lots of people have be...

We are only minutes away from having the project be fully funded! We've spent the last 6 hours working to get the Production Prototype finished, and are so close to having it done. The UPS man delivered the shafts, but not early enough to get them lined up and installed correctly. Ultimately there w...