I have seen a lot of homemade routers and milling tables and decided that I must do my part and build my own.  Using TurboCNC, a cheap drilling machine and a x-y table and some discarded cheap stepper motors, I went and started my design.  The remaining component was the driving box.  It is hard to get stepper driver ICs locally, so I programmed a PIC 16F84 and built my own drivers.

  Milling table, driver box with PSU and laptop running TurboCNC

 Insides of the drivers box

 Close up of the microcontrolled drivers (PIC16F84)

 Motor to axis coupling

{dakcnc3.0}

Simple programm that cuts three parallel lines.

{program start}

M03

G00 Z.25

G00 X0. Y0.

G01 Z0. F1

G01 Y.5 F2

G00 Z.25

G00 X.125

G01 Z0. F1

G01 Y0. F2

G00 Z.25

G00 X.250

G01 Z0. F1

G01 Y.5 F2

G00 Z.25

G00 X0.Y0.

M05

M02

{program end}

 Part being milled

 Three milled lines on a plastic audio cassette box

 Close up of the lines (0.5” long and 0.125” apart)