Low-cost fabbed 3-axis mill

While at MIT last week, I met Jonathan Ward, who's working in the Machines That Make (MTM) group on an open source, low-cost CNC mill made from 26 parts on a ShopBot, called the MTM A-Z. You can download the necessary files (including bill of materials) to make your own! Check out the video above for an overview of the machine. The MTM group has this awesome idea of a fablab 2.0, where all of the big machines will have been made by other machines, reducing commercial overhead and increasing overall awesomeness. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/low-cost_fabbed_3-axis_mill.html

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[cprich22]

there should totaly be a univirsity of MAKE

[MICROmor]

would've been cooler to see iy in action

[1pcfred]

@vince086 I think it depends how much you budget pot and beer but that guy said it cost him $400. I didn't see no $400 in parts there!

[vince086]

Man I would love a small one like than. Wonder how much it would cost?

[SeamusCallan1]

@cprich22 ...I couldn't imagine those frat parties or Wednesday night socials...arduinos, code, and robots!

[club9g4evr]

LOL!!1 DUDE YOU LOOK LIKE LEONARD FROM THE BIG BANG THEORY!!

[Myck1912]

¬¬ the sense of making a video of a machine is to show what it .!!!! this sucks.!!!!

[markb2323uc]

very cool.

[TheMorbiousStone]

completely BadAss!!!!

[bobbysam232]

it makes it self =P

[westkan]

While it was barely touched on in the video. This is not about this particular mill, it's about open source manufacturing, s best I can tell. Something those 1K other mill builders can take part in. The resulting mill will build some parts for others mill. The other mill would build parts the first mill isn't set up to build. And hopefully the tree keeps on growing.

[westkan]

For many of us the realization good communication skills are important doesn't arrive until we are well into adulthood. Many never realize it & will dismiss the topic as "elitist". I have always found it pleasant experience to run across some1 who knows their shit and are damned good at sharing what they know smoothly. No doubt it took them years to get that practiced. As far as we know this may have been the first time he was on camera knowing he could be seen by any1 in the world.