Hi all, well i'm new to cnc and have started to build my own setup and what got me started was spotting a cnc set up at the recycling center by my home. I talked to them and i got the whole set up ( a locale outfit had dumped it off). When i got everything home i found that it was a cnc bandit 1 that was set up for just the x and y axis with a laser for the cutting. Now my question is i have re-used and modified it to be a three axis gantry style router and i have the bandit controller and dont know what to do with it.Do i just scrap it and start fresh or is there some retro fitting that can be done to make it a 3 axis controller. Is there any way to use the driver boards out of it ? they appear to be run by a flat 16 pin ribbon cable is there a bob or some other controller that these would work with? I would like to use a pc to run everything instead of entering everything manually. Any help would be appreciated.