Aluminium, brass and engineering plastics on your bench. Designed in the open, simulated to the millisecond, measured before it ships — and delivered with a twin calibrated to its serial number.
Status: the design is complete (CAD, 21 drawings, bill of materials, wiring, frame FEA and the digital twin). Prototypes are being built; figures below are design values until measured.
The base, uprights, gantry beam and table are 6061-T6 plates, milled flat where rails and supports sit — 0.02 mm flatness on the rail faces, 0.01 mm parallelism across the beam’s rail bosses. The frame was checked with finite-element analysis before a single part was ordered.
HGR15 profile rails with twelve HGW15CC flange blocks carry the table, the carriage and the Z slide. SFU1204 C7 ball screws sit in BK10 fixed and BF10 floating supports, driven by NEMA 23 closed-loop steppers. The axial stiffness of each drive train is 17 to 30 N/µm, depending on axis and position.
A 65 mm, four-bearing, water-cooled spindle with an ER11 collet (1–7 mm) runs to 24,000 rpm on a Huanyang HY01D523B VFD. The controller talks to the VFD over RS-485, so the speed you command is the speed it reports back — and a broken link stops the job instead of cutting blind.
A Teensy 4.1 on a T41U5XBB breakout runs grblHAL, with separate inputs for every limit switch, the tool setter, the E-stop and the drive alarms. Normally-closed inductive switches fail safe; a tool setter measures tool length. In the steel cabinet, the E-stop opens the contactor that feeds the drives and the VFD, and a start button is needed after every power loss.
Before it leaves us, each machine is measured and the results are written into a twin profile that Studio loads. Your simulation then carries the errors of your machine, not of an average one.
The measurements use the tools shipped with Studio (calib_iso230, switch_scan, calib_spindle, calib_cutting); the report comes with the machine.
The same model the twin uses. Switch between the machine and its twin view.
Design values from the CAD and the calculations in the design review. Positioning accuracy and repeatability are measured per machine (ISO 230-2) and reported with it rather than promised here.
Founders’ machines are hand-assembled and calibrated by the people who designed them.
Assembled, aligned, calibrated.
The same machine, built in series.
Machined parts and components, you assemble.
Indicative prices. USD and EUR exclude VAT or sales tax, duties and shipping; CNY includes 13 % VAT.
CAD, drawings, BOM, wiring, FEA, design review.
Studio 0.2: the complete machine, an editor, an optimizer, an MCP server, English and Chinese.
Build, measure, compare with the twin.
Refundable reservations open after the prototype tests.
Standard edition, kits, education bundles.
The MC-1 is designed for aluminium, brass and plastics. Light finishing cuts in mild steel are possible; roughing steel is not what it is for.
220–240 V single phase. A 110–120 V version (different VFD) is planned for North America.
Yes. Every MC-1 comes with an interlocked enclosure: the spindle cannot start with the door open, and the door stays locked until the spindle has stopped. It is being designed now, together with a safety relay for the E-stop, as the EU machinery rules and China’s GB 15760-2025 require.
No. Tools are changed by hand in the ER11 collet; the tool setter measures each tool, and Studio simulates the same workflow.
In a wooden crate of about 75 kg, the cabinet packed separately. Shipping is quoted per country.