Dremel Carver/Duplicator Rev 1.2 - Motion

For the last few years I have seen all these cool CNC projects from affordable rapid-prototyping machines, to laser cutters, to hacked together CNC routers. One of these days when I have the funds, I will build one of these CNC machines but till then I thought I would do something more on my budget.

I have a Dremel and have been buying various router bits for it lately. I was thinking that I could buy one of those Dremel Router tables but, that would be kind of limiting. So then I thought what about building a Dremel Duplicator. It would have three axes and could be utilized much like a CNC Router with the added advantage of copying an existing object.

Check out my [http://www.instructables.com/id/Dremel_CarverDuplicator_like_a_Human_Power_CNC_­Ro/ Instructable]

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Howto & Style

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• Dremel
• router
• duplicator
• carver
• handpowered cnc

[rayvt1]

I had the same problem with my first machine which was very similar to this one. I used bearing drawer slides for "X" and "Y" axis and welded a cross steel member to make the unit rigid when it moves. For "Z" axis, pillow blocks welded onto "Y" axis slide. And I can copy a coin with mine. Simple and pipe for arms for pen and dremel (Router) again with bar welded across for rigidity. Cost = $50.

[EddieGoregor]

yeah ok? I bet that can copy nervous hand patterns good for useless forensic catch 22 arguments. Get it? dude...when you can copy the face of a coin, repost your video. But try it anyway just to show us how this machine cuts.

[rednoseroxy]

lol, yeah, that looks accurate. How about abstract duplicate?

[YupHio]

I just finished building one somewhat like this but I opted for a hinged parallelogram instead of linear bearings. Yours seems to have some slop in the sliding motion lol but it should be fine for rough stuff.

[WDtuber23]

If you have to move it by hand, and there is no computer involved, its not CNC. Computer Numerical Control. Not tryin to be a dick, its just one of those " for future reference" things. I'd like to see an aluminum version though. Plywood just isn't sturdy enough.

[crustycrayon]

too much slop in the movement to use this as a duplicator. you need to stiffen that thing up a lot.

[GerryHuman]

You can do NOTHING with this machine.........

[butkatrello]

I've only found a few like this, on you-tube, if you have a pattern, then you don't need to hook up a computer, way to many CNC machines on here. I like this one, good job

[jerronimo3000]

that's pretty cool! does it actually work?? that could be useful to me if it does since i have a dremel