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The most expensive part by far will be the ballscrews. For $150 or so you can't really go wrong.
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I somewhat disagree with the linuxcnc folks a pc is not a real-time system (nor should it be), better to leave the motion control to a hard real-time device. Smooth stepper for the motion controller was my first choice as I have heard some rave reviews.
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Gecko is basically the agilent of small stepper/servo drivers imo in the optics lab that I work in, everything runs off zabers or geckodrives. I've used a few before, you really need a hardware/FPGA quadrature decoder for them as you can get up to 2048*4 quadrature edges per revolution. Encoders are the AMT102V (you can grab them at digikey), they are bloody amazing for the price and they come with a ton of different shaft adapters. I have some random chinese brushless DC motors about the size of my two fists put together. I'm planning on a 3 axis mill, hoping to do light steel work eventually. Using seperate stepper drivers is highly recommended, as it gives more choice and the all-in-one cards are quite frankly rubbish with poor reliability. Other controllers that use Mach I can think of are CS-Labs (EU based, but aimed more middle/high end of the market), PureLogic (Russia based, low-middle market pretty good boards, but all the english pages from their website have disappeared), and CNCDrive's boards (US based, although not seen many mentions of their products). There are some cheap USB boards that are compatible with Mach from China, and from what I've seen they are pretty good, although they are bit limited in setup options and support.
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I opted for the KFlop due to a few features I'd like to try in the future, however it's not the easiest of boards to set up, but is highly customisable as you can code your own threads in c, without being reliant on any one programmer to add features.
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Dynomotion do provide their own CNC software for use with the KFlop board, but they also have a Mach 3 plugin. I currently have one lathe setup with a USB smoothstepper (if you go for the SS, pay the extra for the ethernet version to eliminate usb connection issues), and am in the middle of setting up a second lather using a Dynomotion KFlop+Kanalog combo.
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I personally use Mach as the support is probably the best without being a total geek or relying on one man. Planet-CNC as already mentioned, and a couple others I can think off just now, but I've just had a complete mind blank over there names! One is UK based, and one US. Mach and LinuxCNC are the main two software packages with good support, but there are other options. Also: cable tie the bejesus out of the thing no cable should be able to move of its own free will. Don't put signalling cables (limit switches, etc) right next to power cables.
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Use cable that can take the current, and get shielded if you can afford it. Just gotta cut slower I guess Just a tip: wiring matters a lot. I've got a rather large CNC router based on roller chain and steppers and you really can't do anything once you lose a step because you don't know until the job is finished. The best thing I have seen with linux is the mesa FPGA cards: and the best with mach3 is the smoothstepper: I have one of those usb things you have linked to, never was able to get it working all that well (but I didn't try very hard tbh because the parallel port turned out to be fine) I am building a new 3 axis machine with servos/encoders/geckodrives and a smoothstepper.
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If you don't want that, you need to decide if you are going for linux CNC or mach3 as it changes things. As mentioned, parallel port is usually a pretty solid choice as most stuff supports it (and it's super cheap/free). They are a lot more complicated than you think I tinker a lot with diy cncs. Well, my first CNC was supposed to be 'just a tool'.