Ozark Made is building a new 4’x8′ bed machine capable of milling wood, plastics, acrylics, aluminum, and more!
The new OX-8 will allow us to machine full 4×8 foot sheets of material at one time, providing us with a faster completion time and more accuracy.
We plan to start on Friday and finish by Sunday, providing all the materials arrive on time. This machine is based on the Ooznest OX CNC but redesigned for our application with a 4×8 bed.
We will update you on the build progress once it starts and eventually have a video showing some of the build and problems we must solve. We already anticipate problems with the limit switches being affected by electrical noise, as we ordered the wrong cable for that application. Hopefully, we have enough shielded cable in stock to avoid this issue.
Another issue we anticipate is the addition of a 4th motor, a mirrored slave motor on the Z axis. Since this machine will run on Arduino and GRBL, GRBL only supports 3 motors natively. We will attempt to jump two motor drivers’ input signals, and if this doesn’t work, we are going to go with a CNC Shield that supports an A Axis.
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