Thank you John,
So far I have extremely good impressions about the quality, accuracy and repeatability of this little machine. I have to be honest, I live in a condo, so I have not cut anything yet, waiting to get the machine to my boat first. But had little pen modified and used the little CNC as a plotter. I could sweep along all axis left to right, front to back many times with high speed then redraw the object at the exactly same place right over the previous drawing.
I ALWAYS wanted one of these. Long time ago I bought steppers and controller board to make one myself but I was preoccupied working on my boat after my 8 1/2 hours at work, so the "Make CNC" went in the never land...
Now my boat is in great shape and I cruised it down to Mexico last year where I will have more time for other things.
So I figure - what the heck for 900 bucks - and I bought this little machine
what i like about it is that i can upgrade to 4 or 5 axis, and 3D printer too. But first I need to gain some experience, see if i like it or not and then go after upgrades.
I will be interested into your project with the drivers too. I already opened the controller, and the drivers are on daughter cards, which makes for great upgradability!
In a mean time my next challenge will be to disassemble it and transport down south to Mexico... Not quite clear how yet.. and not quite sure if by doing that if I would screw up any alighments too..
Take care
Seamaster