I'm planning a spindle cutting machine for cutting rope twists and so on. I have no experience (yet!) in building a machine or use stepper motors so I wondered if there was a 'stepper motors for CNC for dummies' somewhere?
At the moment I'm just seeing a lot about 'nema' 17s and 23s and don't dont what they are so I know very little.
I attached a plan of my early design for comment. My impression at the moment is that I don't need huge stepper motors because I'm just rotating a small piece of work (wooden spindle max 2" x 10") and positioning a router bit but as you can tell i dont really have the first idea!
For reference, the second photo is a small (90mm x 300mm) xy table which I intend to cannibalise for the cross slide and maybe the bed.
Any thoughts VERY welcome!