CNC Robotics: Robotics Source Books

CNC Robotics gives you step-by-step, illustrated directions for designing, constructing, and testing a fully functional CNC robot that saves you 80 percent of the price of an off-the-shelf bot--and that can be customized to suit your purposes exactly, because you designed it. Written by an accomplished workshop bot designer/builder, this book gives you:

» Start-to-finish illustrated instructions
» Help installing Windows software for controlling your bot
» Plenty of time-saving tips, tricks, and pictorial help
» Scaling and customizing instructions
» Sources for easily obtained parts
» A complete course in workshop bot design and construction
» Perfect for courses or industry

The perfect book for hobbyists who like to build and create using wood and metal. It's especially for those who have ever been foiled by lack of specific parts to help realize their creative designs. Build Your Own CNC Machine is also an excellent choice for organizations such as scouting and church groups, school shop classes, and so forth, as it provides an educational project of modest cost that all can work on together.

Don't be intimidated by abbreviations like CNC and terms like Computer-Aided Design. Patrick and James have chosen a CNC-machine design that is simple to fabricate. You need only basic woodworking skills and a budget of perhaps $500 to $1,000 to spend on the wood, a router, and various other parts that you'll need. With some patience and some follow-through, you'll soon be up and running with a really fun machine that'll unleash your creativity and turn your imagination into physical reality.

» Detailed section on CNC lathes with live tooling, including examples
» Image files of many actual parts, used as examples
» More programming examples (both in printed text and on the CD-ROM)
» Optimized for the latest Fanuc and related control systems
» Additional formulas, calculations and handy reference material
» Fourth axis programming (indexing and rotary)
» Improved index for better search of topics

The enclosed CD-ROM now contains a fully functional 15-day shareware version of CNC tool path editor/simulator, NCPlot(tm). This powerful, easy-to-learn software includes an amazing array of features, many not found in competitive products. NCPlot offers an unmatched combination of simplicity of use and richness of features. Support for many advanced control options is standard, including a macro interpreter that simulates Fanuc and similar macro programs.