A minimalist 2-axis A2 sized laser diode cutter/engraver. Designed to give the most function using the very least number of parts at the lowest price.

The OpenBuilds Sphinx 1050 - 500x1000 Lead Screw Machine

This will be a slow build as I collect parts and materials as funds permit for 1000mm x 1000mm Workbee. I call it the "Hand Crafted WorkBee" because I will be hand making the plates and as much of the build as possible using a drill press and hand tools.

probably as big as you'd want it...

This was my first foray into CNC. I chose to go with a reliable kit build since my knowledge of GCode, controllers, and steppers was pretty rudimentary.

Transformation of an OpenBuilds Mini Mill into a convertible 3D printer / CNC mill with interchangeable tooling. Maybe a bonus conversion TBD.

A table top OpenBuilds MiniMill build. 48V 52mm spindle with ER11 collets.

I could not "tram" the spindle to the table. I found that the V Rails could not accurately be adjusted so the Gantry was equal distance from the spoilboard in multiple places.

low cost 2 axis cnc laser, really portable and easily expandable

A 1000 by 1000 CNC Router with linear rails and a control box.

C-Beam machine - 1000mm base.

To build a simple plotter that rolls along the length of large paper, foam core or other flat objects.

This items are so cool that they need to be together, so I decided to create brackets that connect both pieces together

Create a ball screw carrier with out BF BK bearing blocks.

Super cool standalone Human-Machine Interface for controlling your CNC machines!

Ball screw drive, linear rail CNC Kit

Making my own magnetic dust shoe with led lights and a camera. Showing my progress from beginning to now.

A desktop Cartesian CNC router

Compact Dedicated Rotary Axis Laser Engraver

lead machine plasma table with Black Box, and Torch Height Control

An ACRO laser put together with some repurposed and some new parts.

This SphereBot is based on the EggBot which is an open-source art robot (drawbot) that can draw on spherical or egg-shaped objects.

This is just a small project to get use to the OpenBuild products.

Dual extruder 3D printer and laser cutter.

Drag knife and pen holder which mounts in spindle collet.

This small desktop machine is built inside a 300mm cube of 20mm extrusion. Work area is 14cm by 14cm. I used 400 step nema17 motors all around.

My on going build of CNC Mini Lathe

A completely belt driven cartesian design with a center mounted X motor. This is a very compact, rugged design.

Learn to build a super strong nema 23 lead driven linear actuator

Here are a few helpful C-Beam actuator ideas that will help you get a start on your builds

This build is inspired by the Lulzbot Taz printers and makes use of the new OpenBuilds C-Beam

In short...this was a fun project.

A Modified and augmented Ooznest C-Beam Machine Plate Maker.

This is a handy machine to assemble touch sensors into display frame.

A C-Beam router made almost entirely of standard parts. Electronics include an xPro v2 board and NEMA 23 motors. Cuts are made with a small 300W DC spindle. A pressure foot is used to minimize the need for workholding.

Machined Aluminum MagBall Carriages

This is my CNC build. My goal is to have fun and learn some new things.

A very fun and fulfilling build. I can't say enough about the whole Open Builds site and Open Source movement. I strongly believe this is the fastest and most creative way of getting ideas out of the mind, and onto the floor.

This is an experiment to build a Linear Delta Printer using four towers instead of three. Primary reasons: 1. Build area is roughly cubic vs roughly cylindrical 2. Greater speed and precision from additional control provided by fourth tower. 3. Symmetric kinematics from even number of towers.

This is the story of my experience building a 1000 x 750mm OOZNest OX CNC router

A 2 independent gantry affordable hotwire machine.

1000mm X 1000mm overhead cnc machine

Laser CNC, 60W, didn't have one yet... have to :) This build is a retrofit of a surgical laser into a CNC.

My first printer! I went for a simple cartesian design, based on evilc66 one. It uses 1000 mm C-beam linear actuators. The build volume is 700x700x700 mm^3.

Very stout 2'x4' machine with a deep Z axis

A 1000mm x 1000mm Sphinx/R7 build.

An Openbuilds replacement rail system for the common eBay "K40" C02 Laser Cutter

Automatic spray machine.

A home-made CNC-machine with a 1.5 kW air cooled spindle motor suitable for milling materials such as wood, plastic and soft metals. The work table is 650 mm wide by 700 mm deep and the maximum movement is set to 560 mm for the x-axis, 480 mm for the y-axis and 105 mm for the z-axis.

A 1000mm x 1000mm copy of Kyo's Sphinx

DO WHAT YOU IMAGINE !

The Tiger Paw will be a 1000mm X 500mm Cartesian style CNC with the Minimill attached to the end. It is named the D&R Tiger Paw because my son, Daniel, and myself, Richard, will put this Tiger strong and fast machine together. Our goal is to have a Tiger strong build with a Paw print that wouldn’t take up a huge amount of space in our garage.

The Acro Laser Machine Build

This is a modification I made to my Voxel Ox 3D Printer Z axis, which synchronizes the Z leadscrews via a shaft and helical gear transmission. It prevents the two Z leadscrew from getting out of adjustment relative to each other, and uses a single Z motor instead of two. This build is just documenting the specific changes I have made to the Z-axis, since the frame and other axes are still from the original Voxel Ox design.

The OpenBuilds Sphinx 55 - 500x500 Lead Screw Machine

I'd like to renew my cnc for PCB so I decide to create new one from an existing project named Cyclone PCB Factory.

A log of my "brain surgery" on a Cricut Expressions 2 to change the control board to something open so that I could cut what I wanted. The ESP32 GRBL board I used has bluetooth and WIFI built-in and was very easy to get working just the way I wanted.

So, not much here, as I'm still building, but I'm putting in the work.

Video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCTbLZ2_m-w&t=36s

A proper CNC mill conversion. But quite small, with my trademark idiosyncracies.

A quick little mini mill build

A 1.9 x 1 m table that uses a magnet to move a steel ball and draw geometric patterns in sand. The magnet is moved using a corexy mechanism driven by 3D printer controller board reading the patterns in the form of gcode files.

The k40 cube is a laser cutter build using mostly stock parts of the chinese k40 laser

This is a build log of the Openbuilds Sphinx 55 with some 3D printed parts for the electronics and probably other parts as they come up.

The machine is a stock Lead CNC, with the Black Box controller and StepperOnline 269oz NEMA 23 motors. I'll be using the DeWalt 611 from Openbuilds, as well.

I am satisfied with my build and next one will be even better.

My First major improvement was changing the controller to a Acorn board. I loved the way a dedicated userinterface was speeding up my workflow. Next project my Y Axis. On Aliexpress I ordered a couple of 16mm ballscrews and some lineair rail. Before I took my gantry off I quickly made some aluminium profiles to fit my carriages. Withouth any doubt these improvements where worth it

Upgrading printers for Synchronous Leveling

A short description of the dust shoe I made for my machine.

Based on the popular C-beam / V-wheel design, with the largest available work area, relative to machine size. Screw driven with anti-backlash, integrated drag chains, Carbon fibre gantry plates, Openbuilds BlackBox Controller (USB), Transformer & kill switches, with internal wiring, limit switches & Nema 23 motors.

Tried to get best value and minimal footprint!

Contains a further modification to Creality's poor CR-10 design

Machine with 12,5Nm closed loop steppers or servo steppers

It began with creating an extremely rigid axis that incorporates a multi C-Beam Linear Rail system as well as precision lead screws coupled with a tension system for the absolute maximum in performance.

We want to present you the new design of the device which is Router Sled. The whole structure is made of aluminum elements and ensures good quality of the device. We used V-SLOT aluminum profiles and OpenBuilds accessories for the construction. The instructional video can be found on our YouTube channel (subtitles in English soon)

Simple Swing Arm Build for the Modular Table Series. Create a simple vacuum swing arm that swings over your machine keeping your vacuum hose and router cord, etc. up and out of the way

Build Summary updated after parts list completed

We are introducing the Cairo Mini 3d-printer! It’s a DIY fully Open-source Reproducible 20x20cm 3d-printer. The original goal of the Cairo Mini 3d-printer is to create a low-cost 3d-printer below 220$(3500 LE). That anyone can build with ease.

Plasma Mill CNC

Quick and Simple V-Slot Gantry System. This example build shows how easy it is to make a linear actuator using a few OpenBuilds Parts. You can mount this system an many ways so be sure to download the example models.

A work in progress. working to refine the print head/carriage to integrate a bed level probe directly into the print head.

This build was very complex due to the fact I wanted to create a low cost larger than normal CNC. I did not want a MDF or plastic body. I wanted it to be able to do more than most CNC routers this size on the market.

This build is the documentation of someone with no experience building the OX cnc machine with a Gecko G540 controller and CNClinux

Delta printer designed in sketchup and includes an adjustable bed.

This is my OX CNC router. It has been a labor of love for over a year now! I hope you find it interesting and inspiring! I also hope that it gives some of you more experienced CNC builders a different perspective and some ideas!

How to make your own anodizing power supply on a budget

A new mini version of the http://openbuilds.com/builds/openbuilds-freeburn-1-v-slot-co2-laser-60-100w.1001/ FreeBurn CO2 Lasercutter

The Prusa i3 (iteration 3) is the newest and most current 3D Printer design by RepRap Core Developer Prusajr (source: http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_i3)

What I want to build is a unit to: rout wood, plastic and occasional aluminium . to be able to swap cutters. i.e. drragknife, laser, router, drill

Another build based on the venerable OX. xPRO CNC controller, and a few extras.

My own Design (not an OX Derivative) using standard Parts.

I want build a frame that is as sturdy as possibility while at the same time keeping it as compact as possible. working area will be approx 1200mm x 600mm

One meter square. Short and stout.... reminds me of a Sumo Wrestler. A temporary and adjustable configuration I have devised to cut my own plates. I have kicked around ideas for about a year and the C-Beam extrusion has made this attempt to realize my ideas irresistible. This is just one step towards bigger and better things!

A steel framed 3D printer using a similar design with my CNC Router.

Delta 3d Printer using 3/4" Electrical Metal Tubing (EMT) for Horizontals & 2060 V-Slot for the Verticals and adding a tetrahedron at the top.

only 2 screws to hold down even bent sheet material and vaccum dust removal in one

Z axes 1605 ballscrew, a comparative design proposal.

This build is to show what's possible as well with openBuilds! I use a single ArduinoMega and 5 separate stepper drivers (A4988). The LEDs are all NeoPixels. Collision 'detection' is all done within the code, so the endstops are only sensors I use in this build. I'm a self-employed video-artist and this is my first installation which just needs power and it runs (where I'm quite proud of). Normally my interactive installations take a long setup time, so this installation is a relief :)

A larger version of the OX.

This build is for a testing rig to use while testing out different controller boards and CAM software for milling and routing. It is in the early stages, planning is complete, parts are ordered. Awaiting parts delivery to start build. Please not the BOM only covers parts from the OpenBuilds part store. I will be posting the other required items very shortly.