@Aldronaig: Honestly I have no idea if WinPC (starter or full) can run with Wine or not. Furthermore I don't know if performances are a fundamental re...

Well... a lot of tech was raised up here! 🙂 Foremost I have to say one stupid thing: "Win PC" is absolutely misleading and confusing as name, it...

Well ... if you say that dedicating a PC to the CNC is cheaper than a controller board. Currently I use Netbook + WinPC controller + WinPC NC Star...

Hi julius, you can use the stepcraft machines with LinxCNC. Just order the "parallel port" version. Thanks Aldronaigh, I will check the links you ...

@MagIO2: yes! That's the kind of information I was looking for! Honestly, while looking at photos on the Stepcraft on the website, I was searching ...

Hello Rory, wow! A lot of information! But I still have to decide if I understood or not... :huh: I mean... what you wrote make sense me, but I st...

Thanks MagIO2, just to fix ideas, may you check if the list below is correct? Controller Board = hardware driving the physical movements of the ...

Hello Jubin, I'm interested about the topic too. I've see other CNC milling machine working well with LinuxCNC so I see no valid reason for Stepcra...

With extra cutter stick out - comes more leverage. The point of contact between the bottom of the cutter and the spindle is then large - 50mm and this...

As I see, the Stepcraft HF 350/500 spindle allows a standard max shaft diameter of 8mm. If equipped with the ER11 nut it can be augmented to 11mm (I s...

Can't you cut the box in 2 pieces? If I understand you correct, only the bottom part will be housing the PCB/display. You can add some mounting holes ...

Here the final idea: the same box together with the plexiglass window. The little transparent window should go down inside the box to be screwed at th...

Still did not get the Verguss-part. Is the plan to put the PCBs inside and then flood the box with epoxy? In my plan, the box will be closed by a lit...

Maybe he could build a little jig to keep the parts in place and use an adequate adhesive instead of screws. Well... that is a possibility, but I'm n...

MagIO2 you make my heart bleeding... 🙁 So in your opinion I cannot carve more than 10mm with the Stepcraft machine? So why the documentation sta...