I have read a few posts and it seems like I am in the same situation as anyone else who owns a Techno CNC DaVinci Series 1012; I acquired it from a school auction.
Just recently the school board auctioned off 5 of them, and being that I have always wanted to learn CNC, I felt like the model designed for the education industry would be a good start.
The particular one I purchased as never been used, but I don't see that it comes with a computer and I imagine I am going to have to come up with some solutions to make it work/control it.
Some older posts mention the purchases of a Gecko540 and the use of Mach3. If I understand correctly, Gecko540 is hardware and Mach3 is the software that controls the hardware. How hard is this modification for someone with no experience with CNC? Is it still a practical modification as some of these posts seem dated.
I would like to use the machine with a modern windows 10 computer via USB. If the above mentioned method is not best, what do you recommend?
Thank you.