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Whilst physically (or in my head), I’ve always got a project on the go in some stage, I’m making more of a push to focus on projects that I can use to develop my home business. I’ve written previously the end goal for this website is to develop product I can sell, plus also fabrication of items for home projects.<\/p>\n

Whilst I was debating about what to buy, I’ve decided currently I’m going to focus of making my own 3 Axis CNC machine DIY style<\/p>\n

This is going to be a long term project over several months which I’ll use for education to teach myself, and for further development. As once I get the equipment and knowledge, I’ll be looking into building a bigger machine overall in a dedicated workshop with a larger working capacity (the end goal being a multi-axis machine – at least 5), with a work area of something like 8ft x 4ft x 2ft in capacity for some extremely large items.<\/p>\n

This CNC machine I’m working on making currently, will have a capacity of approx 500x500x100. I’m limited by space, but I also want to keep it as small as possible, as the projects I need it for presently won’t be large. It’s more about something I can start up quickly to earn me some money. I have the website, I can get the store up and running quickly once I make the products. A home CNC would allow me to make simple moulds out of aluminium for when I make my injection moulding machine<\/p>\n

Onto the article. As a warning note, this article will be full of affiliate links in order to support this project, and any future projects or articles that I decide to write. As I have an OK paying job, but real life priorities always come first to me, so any extra money I earn via this website goes towards my future projects.<\/p>\n

I recently wrote that I deposited \u00a3700 from a Business fund in order to purchase supplies for my home Business to develop it. So I’ve listed them all below with the costs. I was initially going to look at getting a Resin printer and doing some moulds to sell, but I need to look at ventilation, as apparently resin printers give off nasty fumes. A CNC is a machine, it’s basic electronics, and most of the components are already pre assembled, you just have to hook them up and power them which is why I went this way.<\/p>\n

I’ve given a breakdown of all the costs and items I purchased below so far, I opted for the more expensive stuff first purely because it gets it out the way and I only need to get smaller things then. As this will also help others looking at doing a project this way and approximately how much you’d have to pay<\/p>\n

Items I’ve purchased so far for my home CNC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n