{"id":172,"date":"2015-05-07T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/?p=172"},"modified":"2023-03-30T21:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:26:20","slug":"floppy-drive-mini-cnc-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/2015\/05\/07\/floppy-drive-mini-cnc-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Floppy Drive Mini CNC Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started to get interested in CNC machines when I was introduced to autocad drawing long time ago. At that time, I was working with Autocad version 12 and later on I managed to get a light version called Autocad LT.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was fascinated when the drawings were sent to a plotter. I could actually see the pen moving up and down and drawing on the paper guided only by a computer program.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I happened to come across a few videos that touched on using floppy drives to make a mini CNC machine and I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>Following the videos and after more searching on the internet, I managed to make some items work. I am also buying some stepper motor drivers to help me with my projects.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some photos and a video to show the progress.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Testing CNC Floppy Drive with LinuxCNC Software\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jKawd0yyEKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to get interested in CNC machines when I was introduced to autocad drawing long time ago. At that time, I was working with Autocad version 12 and later on I managed to get a light version called Autocad LT. Anyway, I was fascinated when the drawings were sent to a plotter. I could&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/2015\/05\/07\/floppy-drive-mini-cnc-machine\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Floppy Drive Mini CNC Machine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[252,253,239,254,255,250,256],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-autocad","tag-cnc","tag-computer","tag-drawing","tag-driver","tag-stepper-motor","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divinemercylamp.com\/yoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}