I decided that I wanted to play around with controlling the whole thing from the computer, so I decided to get the CNC mounts and stepper motors as well. I'm working on a design for the stepper motor controller board, and I'll post the results when I get them.

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Well, here's how everything came. Bigger...

This is the box that all of the accessories came in. Everything looks to be pretty well packed. Bigger...

These are the guys I got everything from. When I got it, Solarbotics was charging 5% below retail, using 1.5 as the exchange rate on the dollar, and since they're located in Alberta, there was no Provincial Sales Tax to pay (I'm in British Columbia, so normally I'd have to pay 7.5% PST). Bigger...

Dave's Mini-Sumo MiniCab lost to my Mini-Sumo Marauder at the Western Canadian Robot Games, and in an attempt to discourage me from improving Marauder, he wrote a note on the back of his enclosed business card. Bigger...

Here's all of the lathe pieces taken out of the box. Bigger...

This is the assembled lathe, with a small piece of aluminum in the chuck, ready to be faced. Bigger...

Here's what it looks like after 3 or 4 passes to clean things up (I can't hacksaw in a very straight line). This was a 1 inch diameter piece of aluminum. I think I have to work on the speed/feed thing :) Bigger...

Here's the milling machine pieces taken out of the box. Since I don't have the stepper controllers, I used some heat shrink tubing on the ends of the motor leads and used electrical tape to wrap things up nicely. Bigger...

There weren't any reference marks on the stepper motors to align the hand wheels to, so I scribed a small vertical line like this. I'll put some blackener in later. Bigger...

Here's the milling machine after it's been assembled. Bigger...