Precise small parts in aluminium, brass and engineering plastics, on your bench, the same day. Designed as one parametric model and simulated to the millisecond; each machine is to be measured before it ships, with its twin set to the measurements.
Status: the design is complete (CAD, 21 drawings, bill of materials, wiring, frame FEA, the controller firmware and the digital twin). Prototypes are scheduled for Q4 2026; 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 Twinwright's controller firmware — the same code as in the twin — with separate inputs for every limit switch, the tool setter, the E-stop and the drive alarms, and cycle start and feed hold buttons on the panel, so the operator need not reach for the computer. 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.
Each MC-1 is to be measured at commissioning and its twin set to the measurements: a twin profile that Studio loads, so your simulation carries the errors of your machine, not of an average one. The procedure and its tools are written and tested on the twin; no machine has been built yet.
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. Teams and labs get everything for fit-critical parts in one bundle; for builders, a limited kit stays available — ask with the form below.
Assembled, aligned, calibrated.
The same machine, built in series.
What a team or a lab needs to make fit-critical parts from the first day.
Indicative prices. USD and EUR exclude VAT or sales tax, duties and shipping; CNY includes 13 % VAT. In the US the MC-1 ships from US stock with the import duty paid: $5,999, the R&D & Lab bundle $9,999.
CAD, drawings, BOM, wiring, FEA, design review.
The complete machine in Studio: an editor, an optimizer, an MCP server, English and Chinese.
Studio's CAM for 2.5 and 3 axes, the new interface, and the machine's own controller firmware.
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.
Not yet. The prototype has a two-channel E-stop (contactor KM1 and a controller input) but no enclosure and no door interlock. The guarding and the safety assessment that the machinery rules of the EU, the UK and the US require come before any machine ships.
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.
Engineers in hardware and robotics teams and researchers in labs who need precise small parts — bearing seats, housings, mounts, fixtures, microfluidic chips — the same day, without becoming machinists. Studio proves each program on this machine’s twin first.
That is planned for the first deliveries, for parts clamped low on the table (on a base plate: a vise leaves the probe too little room under the spindle): with a touch probe, the MC-1 measures the critical features of a finished part — bores, positions, faces — in its own coordinates, and Studio puts them next to the twin’s prediction in an as-machined report.