by mikegrundvig » Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:08 pm
I'll be posting my design as it stands later today. I'm pretty anal about designing projects like this so I'll actually get the entire thing into SolidWorks asap. It will be as accurate as I can make it (with exceptions, I don't add bolts and such unless there is a question on clearance) before I order anything. I've got a big-ish CNC milling machine (24" x 15" work envelop) in my garage so I plan on machining a lot of the parts rather than ordering off-the-shelf stuff. I'd like to keep the price down on little things as I'm increasing the cost with linear rails. Sorry, MakerSlide is a great idea and I think will be useful for many things, but I feel it's re-inventing the wheel a bit. Linear rails are the established (and ridiculously accurate) way to do linear motion in machines. If I'm going to spend several thousand dollars for electronics and parts, a few hundred more for totally worry-free linear motion seems a good investment. Anyways, I've got a few more parts to design and I'll post something in a few hours. Thanks!
-Mike