My first goal with this site is to get info up on building the shapeoko kit. What is it? An inexpensive CNC milling machine.

I’ve managed to start with the basic $200 mechanical only kit. From there I bought the parts, scavenged from the junk bin, etc. and got the unit working.

Wanting to use Linux, I rewrote a neglected cross-platform gcode sending tool, which has been posted to github.

I am now in the middle of using the shapeoko on one of my projects, a rebuild of an old dobsonian telescope.