When creating a simple cutting board, like the one pictured above for instance, without a CNC router would require cutting out the rough shape with a saw, sanding the edges to the final size ...

If I needed to cut a few hundred mat boards exactly the same, Id CNC. Thats the advantage to a program, repeatability. Otherwise, its like $30 for a new dexter cutter if I lost mine.

Being only ten at the time I was unable to build the thing and, now that I’m 40, I still can’t fathom how to build this DIY CNC plotter out of a DVD player and some Arduino gear.

Jack of all trades, master of none, as the saying goes, and that’s especially true for PCB prototyping tools. Sure, it’s possible to use a CNC router to mill out a PCB, and ditto for a … ...

For a certain kind of handy geek, the journey is way more fun than the destination. That’s why Patrick Hood-Daniel, founder of buildyourcnc.com and author of the DIY CNC bible Build Your CNC ...

With a borrowed CNC router, we cut all the pieces for this Eames chair from a single sheet of wood. Follow our plans and you’ll have a flat-pack chair that comes together without any of those ...

When creating a simple cutting board, like the one pictured above for instance, without a CNC router would require cutting out the rough shape with a saw, sanding the edges to the final size ...