The beauty of Acorn is that the hardware AND software come from the same manufacturer. Just enter your name and email address below: Our Free GCode Programming Basics Course.Our Big List of over 200 CNC Tips and Techniques.Plus, we’ll give you access to some great CNC reference materials including: Join 100,000+ CNC'ers! Get our latest blog posts delivered straight to your email inbox once a week for free. Hopefully I can provide even more insight in the not too distant future. If you’re into DIY CNC Machines, have a look at the Acorn control. Plus, it’s got an awesome gang tooling and sweet 8 station turret as well. The Tormach is in a different class as it is bigger, heavier, and more rigid. It’s not really a fair comparison to put this little guy against Tormach’s lathe. Yup, the Acorn is good for mills or lathes. I’ve got several machines here I’d like to hook it up to, mostly my CNC Router. It was a great intro, and I’m hoping Centroid will send me an Acorn to play with. There’s probably a lot more, but that’s what I took away from the video. Accurate repeatable homing via encoders connected to the home switches.I’ve been telling anyone that will listen to make their controls Fanuc compatible for a long time, but most don’t listen, LOL. G71 reveals a powerful dialect of G-Code, Fanuc compatible.I love PathPilot on my Tormach Slant Bed lathe, but this control has some pretty sweet features too:
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Plus I like the toolroom approach with decent distance between centers and room for a tailstock. Also, its size is perfect for my shop which is a touch cramped. If this machine had been available to me off the shelf at the time, I might very well have one today. Lathes are great, BTW, and CNC Lathes are even better. Video about Centroid’s Acorn controlled CNC lathe… Marty included a slick video that tells the story of this nifty lathe: I’m always happy to share the content on our website provided there’s proper attribution, so the answer was, “Yes!”, of course. I got the information for this article when Marty Escarcega, one of Centroid’s forum moderators, contacted me about giving some CNCCookbook information out to their audience. I had several folks ask me about it when I ran the CNC Controller Survey recently, but I hadn’t really dug into one at all.
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And there’s a PC inside the little black box running the Acorn software.Ĭentroid has been around a long time and has a good reputation for their controls, but the Acorn is newer. The parallel cables makes the connection from the Acorn Controller (green board bottom center) super easy.
There’s a Gecko G540 (black box top right) driving the steppers. You can see the VFD for the spindle at the top left. Inside the control cabinet things are clean and simple. Add a powerful Centroid Acorn Controller (also not too expensive) and you’ve got the slick little lathe that Centroid uses to test their controls: Inexpensive because the electronics don’t work. Take an inexpensive CNC lathe from eBay for $1200.
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