Homebrew PCBs

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 21:15:36 -0000, you wrote:

>I did not mean I did not want people copying it:)  I just don't need 
>to make it easilly reproduceable if I'M not going to reproduce it.  
>I am all for people building more and freedom of information.  I'm 
>actually saddened that I came off otherwise:(  Thanks for your reply
>
>Also, How much does such a machine run, I'm not talking about the 
>super high tech expensive stuff I've seen.  Just able to do the job 
>reliably.

The 14" x14" class - as mentioned - goes for betwen $2k and $2500 for
SIMPLE, but reliably working machines. That's really not super high
tech stuff. Well, a CNC milling machine IS however by definition at
least "higher tech" :-) in it's nature... The price of course also
greatly depends on what one understands that such a machine constists
off (i.e. are controllers included, is software included, is there a
motor for the spindle or not etc. etc. so it's hard to say a general
price without defining what shall be included or not.

The cheaper ones are usually not precise enough and often also
cluttered with issues regarding controllers & software.

Basically I strongly recommend you to use google and browse an evening
or two and I'm sure you get a fairly good overview about this market.

Markus