Homebrew PCBs

Here's someone's experience with this device:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gloomy-place/cncold.htm

To summarize: it's slow and needed an upgrade to a Basic Stamp II,
inaccurate, and uses HPGL, not the more common G-code.

So, for that kind of money I'd consider scratch-building one of John
Kleinbauer's machines. I built his Brute, which works very well.
John's designs are thoroughly tested and debugged before he publishes
them, and he keeps his designs elegantly simple, and easy for a
hobbyist to build. See:

http://www.crankorgan.com/index.html

Grant

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Kev Pearce \(kevp.com\)"
<email.me@k...> wrote:
> http://www.milinst.com/robotics/robotics.htm#axis
> 
> Gets you a pc driven cnc pcb driller for 189 GBP in DIY kit form.
> You don't need to know cnc as the software comes.
> 
> Kev/.
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: mikezcnc 
>   To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:14 PM
>   Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] PCB Driller
> 
> 
> 
>   Earl mentioned www.drillcity.com and that reminded me that I need to 
>   get a driller capable of drilling PCBs. What kind of machine can you 
>   suggest for manual drilling? www.pulsa.gs suggested Micro-mark which 
>   is about $150. Is there something less exensive that does the job or 
>   something that expensive that would do a better job? Mike
> 
> 
> 
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