> https://www.maslowcnc.com/addendum

I need to know what drama happened to cause this, lol

How straight are its cuts? I've used traditional large 10'x5' woodworking CNCs and found them very challenging if not using them daily.

As someone with access to a big 5x10 CNC and a large laser, I much prefer the laser for making forms (acrylic or wood, then use jig saw plus trim router). CNCs are just a step up in terms of complexity for part time use. You have to consider feeds and speed, chip load etc, whereas a laser is much more forgiving. However, I realize accessibility for each tool isn't always easy.

What business did you build around it?

Aha, a plunge router attached to a Roomba j/k ;). That page is very helpful. Hard to say what it's good for unless you're a dedicated woodwork buff. Otherwise a jigsaw seems like enough for a lot of this.

Is this using any feedback mechanism on the position, or is it just feed-forward?

Anyway, I want a machine like this that can paint.

I am confused. In some videos it is hanging vertically by two wires, but here it seems there are four wires and it works horizontally. Are people using both setups?

As far as accuracy, we are still working on that in the software. It is very precise (repeatable) but accuracy is going to depend on many things, including how rigid your frame is (anchors in concrete work very well here) and so most people are getting around 0.5-1mm of accuracy (so +- 0.02-0.04")

This is not a very rigid setup, so your cuts are not aggressive. If you have the space and budget for a big machine, It will be more accurate and FAR simpler software, but the maslow can be packed in a 16" cube, and setup anywhere you can glue down 4 anchors.

There is also a frame posted a few days ago that sets up with 6x 8' 2x4s https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/maslow-4-collapsible-frame-fo...

A good lowrider setup is a good option. If you can set it up so that you can use the table for other things when you don't need the CNC, it can be especially good.

$125 motor? What are you talking about?

The kit costs $525, and yes you need to supply a trim router (they recommend the Dewalt DWP611 which I paid $269 CAD for, but members of the community have successfully used other ones) which you might already have.

You also need to build a frame, or add anchors to your shop floor. This can run you from a few tens of dollars for concrete anchors to $300+ if you want to build something fancier.

There is this https://www.compassrouter.com

Repo here: https://github.com/camchaney/handheld-cnc

Not at all associated with the project, just came across it the other day. Look like it uses a single optical mouse sensor and corrects in a single dimension at a time.

I loved that idea & tried prototyping one using two "laser" mice instead of the tape/vision approach but the accuracy wasn't anywhere near good enough

On the flip side, if you live in a city townhouse, there's likely a makerspace with all this and more. For the cost of that Maslow, I get a year membership to my makerspace that has a full woodshop, metal shop, electronic benches, sewing, 3D printers, large format printers, laser cutters, CNCs etc etc.

What you are describing is the Goliath CNC:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2130625347/goliath-cnc-...

didn't really make it over the long haul.

The Shaper Origin seems more successful:

https://www.shapertools.com/en-us

This one is relatively portable; everything is self-contained on the sled. It just needs four anchors points, and it'll auto-detect where they are in relation to each other during the calibration process.

A lot of users just have 4 concrete anchors on their garage floor, and they put the sled away in a drawer somewhere when not in use.

>It’s more reassuring that it’s core has been through rigorous testing by a reputable manufacturer.

Basically every CNC uses some sort of off the shelf router or router motor.

Probably the first version. It can still be mounted vertical... well, close to vertical.

Cables are kevlar-reinforced belts and the machine knows how long they are and how much tension in on them so it's relatively easy to compute how much they'd stretch under most conditions.

The frame these belts are mounted on still needs to be stiff, though. A concrete floor is a pretty good option.

The key feature you are missing is that it is a sled that rides on the workpiece, so the cables are just moving it in one plane, while the spindle goes up and down relative to the sled.

So it doesn't need the big, rigid gantry of a traditional machine.

but it also is limited in that you can't cut away too much of the surface of your workpiece, you need to leave enough to keep the sled from falling into the cut.

It's also a lot slower as it's not as rigid.

Definitely cost. $525 for the kit, $150 for the D26200, <$100 for the frame: that's less than $1000, while an equivalent COTS CNC would go for over $20k new and probably $5-10k for used-but-in-good-condition.

Plus it'd be much more compact. In the course of my former life as a small-"biz" hacker I had to move a one-ton router three or four times, and none of them were pleasant. Moreover, when later COVID hit we 'temporarily' stashed it in storage, and as things dragged on we ended up having to destroy it -- and let me tell you, even with people rotating off on the angle grinder it still took a full weekend to cut the thing apart, while a wood frame like the Maslow uses would take at most half an hour with a sawzall.

I got the Maslow because I didn’t see any other solutions to let me cut a 4 x 8 sheet in a small space for that cost.

1mm nozzles and long leadscrews are generally AliExpress available.

Frame and Z-axis rigidity, vibration damping are going to be complicated, but super stretching an existing 0.4mm CoreXY to, say, 300x300x600mm, isn't that complicated in principle.

For the 'consumer' market, Elegoo's OrangeStorm Giga has 800x800mm 3d printer for less than 3000$ USD. Looks it like comes with a 0.6mm nozzle, but optionally can put a 1mm nozzle on it.

From what I remember of youtube reviewers, plenty of problems though, as the first of its kind. Hopefully they get fixed, but not sure you'd want to get it now if you just want to print.

I hope you're prepared to spend thousands of dollars on filament.

It’s 2024. You can buy a voltage/phase converter off of aliexpress and convert any random input voltage and phase to any random output voltage and phase for a pretty trivial expense. I’m using a 5kW one to run a 208v 3 phase motor off of 220v one phase in my shop, it cost maybe $100 or so.

I had no idea that was a thing - I guess the great thing about standards: so many to choose from :-(

That being said, to the very best of my knowledge (all 30 minutes of surfing around their project site :-D ) they only recommend the Dewalt routers, but I'd bet it would work just fine with whatever local router you could get at your Japanese hardware store that is already set up for 100V

It's just a cheap brushed motor, it'll run at 100V just fine...

Considering it uses a readily available off the shelf router, you can presumably get the Japanese version. I suspect the Japanese version is probably using the same motor as the US version.