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I've been wanting to build a CNC machine for a while, but have gotten distracted by various other things. I finally did a minimal amount of research and bought some stepper motors and a controller. I honestly jumped into this pretty quick, though, and didn't spend a lot of time researching what I was buying. I'll update this as I learn more about what I bought and, if necessary, what I should have bought instead.

I started with this controller:

It's about $39 and includes:

1 x 1.4 RAMPS Arduino Shield
1x MEGA 2560 R3 16mhz Clone
4x A4988 Stepper Driver rated at 1A and cooling with up to 2A, Note: this board now comes with heat sinks.
1x 12864 LCD Screen with board with SD card interface

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 I've been wanting to build a CNC machine for a while, but have gotten distracted by various other things. I finally did a minimal amount of research and bought some stepper motors and a controller. I honestly jumped into this pretty quick, though, and didn't spend a lot of time researching what I was buying. I'll update this as I learn more about what I bought and, if necessary, what I should have bought instead.
-I started with the controller:
+I started with this controller:
 [[File:2016-04-20 18 40 48-Ramps 1 4 RepRap 3D Printer Controller Mega 2560 R3 A4988 Drivers LCD eBay.png]]
+It's about $39 and includes:
+* 1 x 1.4 RAMPS Arduino Shield
+* 1x MEGA 2560 R3 16mhz Clone
+* 4x A4988 Stepper Driver rated at 1A and cooling with up to 2A, Note: this board now comes with heat sinks.
+* 1x 12864 LCD Screen with board with SD card interface