A California company is making low-cost CNC machines that will help in the classroom. ... The Othermill can be used to make every thing from jewelry to printed circuit boards for robots.

As a fervent fan of twiddly and twirly widgets and tactile buttons in a device’s user interface, [Steve M Potter] created a remote control (pendant) for his CNC machine, which he explains in … ...

[Nicolas Tranchant] works in the jewelry industry, and wondered if he could press a CNC engraving machine into service to engrave gemstones in a more time-efficient manner than the manual carving ...