Being only ten at the time I was unable to build the thing and, now that I’m 40, I still can’t fathom how to build this DIY CNC plotter out of a DVD player and some Arduino gear.

Next comes a 36V cnc domain PWM fan output (see circuit diagram above) where the +ve is directly connected to the 36V power input and the -ve is modulated to 0V of cnc domain via a hefty mosfet.

Ardunino based CNC plotter machine – made from two dvd drives! X and Y axis are using stepper motors and rails from two dvd drives and Z axis is using one micro servo.

An interesting Arduino project has been published to the Instructables website showing how an Arduino CNC shield and controller has been used to create an awesome 3 axis Arduino CNC plotter. The ...

[Jay]’s plotter is based on the Piccolo, an exceedingly small-scale CNC platform that can be built for $70 with laser-cut parts. This version, though, uses only six parts that can be downloaded ...