We see a lot of CNC Machines here on Hackaday but ... did making the install a little easier. The lathe is controlled by an old Pentium 4 computer running Mach3. The step and direction signals ...

Ask anybody whose spent time standing in front of a mill or lathe and they ... to actuate the z-axis ( the one which travels parallel to the axis of rotation). It’s no CNC, but this type ...