Barton Dring wrote a post on his blog detailing his Delta router build, he made it for ORD Camp:
This year there happened to be a session on creativity with constraints. The question we debated for an hour was, do constraints help or hurt the creative process. Constraints can move you out of your comfort zone and maybe that is a big part of creativity. The topic was perfect for me because I had intentionally challenged myself with a few constraints on this project.
- Use non captive stepper motors. Not a lot of people have seen these in use, they are cool to watch and they simplify the design.
- Limit myself to 3 unique fabicated parts. People keep thinking deltas are more complicated than . This was to demonstrate the simplicity. Go ahead, design a Cartesian machine with only 3 unique fabricated parts. All other parts had to be commonly available parts.
- Use stock reprap software. I could only touch the configuration files.
Check out the video after the break.