Testing out recipes for cutting A36 mild steel on my Avid CNC Benchtop Pro CNC router, using the CNCDepot S30C 2.2kW spindle and a Fogbuster. Aluminum is comparatively more forgiving than steel, and ...

We feature a lot of how-to and diy projects here at Popular Mechanics, but many of them require an expensive piece of equipment: a CNC router. These computer-controlled cutting machines can create ...

Jack of all trades, master of none, as the saying goes, and that’s especially true for PCB prototyping tools. Sure, it’s possible to use a CNC router to mill out a PCB, and ditto for a fiber laser.