There are USB CNC controllers and you don't need a breakout board
for Parallel port units.
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Lez <lez.briddon@...> wrote:
>
> > Anybody mind if we call the simple unit the MotorSpinners-CNC ?
> >
> > Maybe even start a Yahoo-group for that ?
> >
> > Heck, we could even get T-Shirts !
> >
> > Dave
> > (oh, and hats too)
> >
>
> And then use it to engrave keyrings.............
>
> Go for it guys!
>
> I'm behind anyone that wants to build anything, I think I would like
> to mill/cut/grind my simple pcbs save using acids etc.
>
> Hell I've not even graduated to motor spinner, I cant work out why I
> need to build a printer port breakout box, I mean what dark age is
> this that you need something even called a breakout box ?
>
> Why is none of these things USB with pics etc?
>
> The more I look at these plans and designs and online resources I keep
> getting a mental image of a cooter from dukes of hazard building one,
> with the soldering being done by Mr T.
>
> Innovation these things are not.
>
>
>
> Lez
>