CNC

From RBOSE

Numerical control (NC) refers to the automation of machine tools that are operated by abstractly programmed commands encoded on a storage medium, as opposed to manually controlled via handwheels or levers, or mechanically automated via cams alone. The first NC machines were built in the 1940s and '50s, based on existing tools that were modified with motors that moved the controls to follow points fed into the system on punched tape. These early servomechanisms were rapidly augmented with analog and digital computers, creating the modern computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine tools that have revolutionized the manufacturing process.

For a general description of CNC machines, please visit wikipedia:CNC, because this page is meant to be a documentation for the RBOSE CNC project to build Free Hardware versions of this type of machines. If you would like to join our endeavor, feel free to do so.

Note: Please keep in mind that content provided below is a work in progress also of people who are learning to make a first step on the path into robotics. We hope that this approach will let us share learning experiences and help understand what kind of problems new people encounter, if they dream about robots, yet completely don't know how to start. We plan to involve more and more specialists and professionals as we go, and to provide as thr end result high quality products with standards, documentation and development platform.

List of tasks in the PMS

#92 [Support] Make a list of CNC free online resources by Lukas
#93 [Feature] Design the overal construction shape and functionality of the first CNC machine by Lukas
#94 [Feature] Create the first CNC machine blueprint by Lukas
#95 [Feature] Choose the electronics for the CNC by Lukas
#96 [Feature] Create CNC manuals by Lukas
#97 [Support] Setup collaboration channels among project contributors and other similar projects around the world by Lukas
#98 [Feature] Chose or create a free software to control the CNC by Lukas