I have been looking for a good solid kit to build off of for some time and when I saw the Ox buildlog I knew I had to have one. Ordered most of the pieces from Open Builds and started planning. Had a nice gentleman named Chris cut the required plates from 6061 aluminum for me (he sells them on eBay now if you're interested) and got to work.

Build a Hot Wire CNC Foam Cutter with inexpensive 3d printer electronics.

This is a rework of a previous build I did on here, a mostly printed cartesian CNC. Initially intended to just be an update to that, but so many things changed including the linear motion and every single part has been modified significantly that I felt as though it deserved a whole new build.

Ox Stainless with ballscrews for motion, nema 23 steppers, LInuxcnc for control software. Using basic parts for frame from Makersupplies, and the rest sourced from ebay. Building a small router hoping it will be able to cut aluminum with decent results.

1000mm x 1000mm C-Beam XXL CNC with external drivers and high torque Nema 23 motors, 2.2KW Spindle with VFD.

A desktop Cartesian CNC router

C-Beam Machine for PCB milling

This is a Dual X-axis platform.

more to come, please follow along the journey!

Here's my Sphinx with a few slight modifications.

This is a fully adjustable, low profile rotary axis for your Laser Cutter. Many OpenBuilds components are used, plus a handful of 3D printed parts.

Made with OpenBuilds 2020 and 2060 material/brackets/hardware. Simlabs wheel deck. Fanatec DD wheel base/wheel/pedals NRG seat Sim racing studio wind simulators Few 3D printed brackets/caps/cable holds

Build Start to begin Feb 1st.

I need a large build plate without spending 10-20k for a "store" built printer.

This is going to be a more or less detailed how to build BetterBot. Pictures and more (decent) text are to be added.

A build which is based on a metal frame and aluminium plate which I salvaged from a skip. The frame is sized to hold 19" rack units so I'll build my control box into a 3U rack unit (also salvaged). The area available for the build is 700x1200mm. I'll sling a 60W CO2 tube under the base, the beam path will be initially upward into the enclosure.

Using most of the parts of the MiniMill, and adding a few other parts (cost < $200), transforms the MiniMill into a very capable machine. Final build area as shown is 10.25" x 16". With a custom Y-plate, I will take it to 10.25" x 20-24".

Current progress uses existing openbuilds bearings, but also uses 8mm shafts (custom)

A modern take on a Kossel

CNC Based on CBeam, with No custom Plates, and Z GANTRY

CNC Mini Mill build with some mods after following standard build on Youtube video.

My attempt at a Desktop CNC using C-Beam and Open-Rail with Steel Wheel bearings and LeadScrew Drive.

Mega-sized Taz machine. Supports many tools (extrusion, laser, mill, etc) simultaneously.

How i construct and create my DIY Co2 Laser cutter and engraving mashine. details will follow

The Acro Laser Machine Build

pictures and mony doku see later

A 750mm x 1000mm Core XY Laser Etcher/Cutter. To cut down on cost I tried to have as many parts as possible be printed.

My build is based on many different builds but pieced together into a unit specifically to suit my needs. The footprint, without motors, is around 500mm x 1000mm with a gantry height of around 250mm. I used a combination of C-Beam, for the linear transmission, and V-Slot for the base and gantry supports. Forged angle connectors were used for attachment and I utilized the C-Beam gantry cart kits with anti-backlash blocks for both Y axes, the X axis, and Z axis.

Delta printer, Bed size 280 cm dimeter Print Height 300 cm not tested yet the speed

An OX CNC router using Blue OX Solutions gantry plates, a Bosch Colt router, and most of the remaining parts coming from Openbuilds parts store. Table has about 22"x55" cutting capacity and I am planning on a combination T-Slot and vacuum hold down system.

A fully aluminium printer made from off the shelf components, no printed parts.

wooden parts of the enclosure can be removed easily used the existing extraction of my glass bead burners

tronxy x3 like

classic router with a ab table

150x75 cm OX with additional Y axis supports and hopefully a working double belt system

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

CoreXY Table with Symmetric Lead Screw Z axis, Build volume: 293mm x 290.75mm x 223.83mm

I am building a multi tool CNC. I plan to have a quick change tooling system that will accept Routers, oxy acetylene torch, Plasma torch. etc. there will be a water bed under the convertible router table / work bench. The inspiration to build this machine is from having a small garage and not a shop.

DIY Pano Head

Upgrade my 5 year old Makerfarm printer to use more V-Slot

Cut Area: 825 x 1340. Max Cutting depth: 2 inches. Arduino based control with Nema 23 and Nema 17 drive. 8mm leadscrew and 2GT belt drive. 400W 48V quite cut spindle.

The COTSPnP pick-and-place machine (PnP) is used to place surface-mount devices (SMDs) onto a printed circuit board and was designed and built exclusively from off-the-shelf (COTS) components, predominantly sourced from OpenBuilds and Actobotics. Its intended use is prototyping and not high rate, high volume production and is capable of precisely placing parts as small as 0402 capacitors and resistors but more importantly, can precisely place components with lead spacing as small a 0.4mm.

Inspired by previous Sphinx builds by Sorin (w/ MGN Rails) and Kenneth's witthuhnCNC XKLBR-1S. I wanted to create a desktop unit that kept a minimal profile and neatly contained the PS, Controller, and all wiring, making it a singular unit that could be easily transportable (as it will be doing double duty at my home and at work)

i always make laser cutting machine, but when i see openbuilds, this can make more cheap gantry for make laser cutting.

Modded OX with full nema23 4 point support

The SMW3D OX, original other than a lot of learning!

Replacing the Pro Light control box with a Open Builds BlackBox.

A simple low cost rotomolder.

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.

C-beam machine mods.

Hello all, wanted to share my custom build that I planed to do. My idea was to drill foam blocks to make molds for my projects. The CNC will be 1500-1500mm with a higher Z-Axis. So I redesigned the Gantry Plates that will be cut out at some other place. I hope you can share your opinion on my project.

A Rigid Delta Printer using C-Beam screw actuators

So this is my custom 40W build. I wanted to make another laser similar to the one I built but a lot smaller and an all in one system so that if I ever decide to do a farmers market or something similar, I wanted to be able to put the laser on the back of the car and drive to whatever location. I think it's going to work. It will be see-through with lights and screens eveywhere. The lights alone should attract people like flies. That's the plan anyway.

I have been working on this project for something like 3 years on and off, sometimes leaving it for a few months. Now I really want to finish it. For me, the mechanical part was the easy (though long) part because I get to use about 17 CNC machines and MasterCAM and I am a machinist. The hard part is the electronics part. Had a few problems getting Windows to communicate to the X5 Mini via the USB cable but found something on the Smoothie forum and got the machine moving.

While i achieved the desired taler Z axis this was very notable of the cost of the stiffness of the Y axis - the Y axis is now quite wobbly. i do not recommend such a big Z axis on a OX CNC machine where the requirement is a good precision.

IIOT WiFi Plasma CNC.

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

This build is based on the C-Beam build by Mark Carew. I have added axis limit switches and a remote mounted control cabinet. This build also uses a custom moveable table.

Simple steel tube design Plasma water table

Square shaped OX for doing general purpose engraving and cutting into wood, acrylic, and aluminum.

Sphinx 1050 kit mounted to a Husky 46" x 24.5" mobile workbench.

Watercooled 3D printer

Berrybot inspired delta 3d printer with a few other tweaks and modifications.

My first openbuilds submission, plain old c-beam machine. Seems like I've spent more time fighting the forum here redirecting in circles than actually building the machine. I'll try to add more pics if I ever find a path out of this corn maze...

XDrive 3d printer, high quality large build volume.

Custom build, after building the prusa i3 and upgrading to i3v, I wanted to build something more sturdy that can print fast and more accurate. Model is built in Fusion 360

Portable, high-speed, low-cost advanced multi-tool desktop factory derived from LulzBot Taz and TazMega.

This Build Is Is Inspired By OOZ Nest CNC, But With Some Changes,

Started with a Rigidbot Big Added a single flat glass bed Used a Smoothieboard clone driving DRV8825

1M C-beam xy variant

Super solid core xy build inspired by the e3d tool changer

OX CNC built using the kit from SMW3D with a Smoothieboard 5 and external motor drivers.

How to modularize the 3D Systems Cube 3 extruder nozzle.

Fully welded, fixed gantry CNC router, with chinese linear motion parts, in progress

Wanna quet an nice looking device done by my hands

The goal is to have a relatively strong CNC to be able to cut alu. Working space will be around 800x350x100mm.

A plasma table able to cut 4'6" x 8'8" sheet. Low cost as possible.

Major rebuild of my Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus.

This is an automatic cocktail mixer made with 8 small peristaltic pumps. this is driven with the touch screen or over wifi. the controller used is a raspberry pi with a Apache webserver

Building the OB Lead 1515 was straight forward. The on-line OpenBuilds assembly videos were extremely clear and easy to follow. Initial build of this machine is with OpenBuilds BlackBox which simplified getting the electronics to work the first time. OpenBuilds staff are friendly and helpful.

This is the adult version of the QU-BD juvenile known as their OneUp. It not only uses extrusion framing instead of press board MDF, it is a full sized 8x8 build area w/ABS-Nylon capability. Only the OneUp's single Z axis driver concept is similar. I'm tempted to call it OneUpAdult for marketing.

This is the original C-Beam Sphinx with the 16 wheel X gantry plates. I'm using the Ethernet Smoothstepper, Gecko G540 stepper driver and Mach 4 for motion control.

A quick and easy way to make a 3-way mitered corner using Corner Connectors

T-slot, v-slot, aluminum angle make up the majority of the structure.

A little project for a rainy day which some, like me, may find useful.

Aluminum-framed enclosure for TAZ 6 3d Printer made with Makerlink.

I have tested my Opt Lasers laser module on a "open" frame for some time. Decided that I want to test a corexy setup and combine it with a boxed/enclosed design - my goal is to get high precision + a safe setup with protection from the laser light + a fan to extract the smoke/exhaust..

Small CNC - made with some custom lasercut+bent sheetmetal parts + Openbuilds V Slot

1500 x 1500 mm OpenBuild CNC

CNC MILLING ROUTER

Video diary C-Beam XL build with massive steppers and a 1.5kW Chinese spindle.

Getting an accurate scan of a golf ball can be difficult with general-purpose 3D scanners. This purpose-built golf ball scanner uses a very accurate Keyence LK-081 laser displacement sensor with an Open Builds linear actuator for the vertical axis and a Sherline CNC rotary table for the turntable. Scan detail is determined by the sample step size and can be set arbitrarily based on desired scan time.

Theoretical Working Area: 360x360x75mm Actual Working Area: 300x300x75mm Will Update Later

Lord willing I will be showing you how build a robust and easy to build 3D printer framework using V-Slot rails and rollers. It's a little bulky, but it has all spring tensioned rollers on all axes, and can be built entirely without custom machining on any parts. You will need digital calipers, a drill press, a carbide toothed miter saw for cutting aluminum extrusions, and lots of little screws!

I have always wanted to work with CNC machinery...a few years back I got my chance to learn some basics at the Double Glazing Company where I was employed (very basic I might add) before the firm folded and I was made redundant...I wanted to continue learning and when I came across this site which push affordable machines I thought I'd give it a go. So I purchased a !000mmx750mm Screw Driven Workbee from Ooznest and I'm about to embark on my quest as many have done before me...Wish me Luck!

A small build using some small vslot scrap piece which shows the versatlity of the v-slot system

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

A stout 3D printer build with the hopes of being able to serve as a light mill (PCB) and laser engraver

Not much to say... Soundproofing box for noisy works... Build in MDF and 20 mm plexiglas. Very effective!!!

This is a cnc router with 3 axis and a kress 1050 motor. Its 140x120cm and a homebuild with your help!