[David Taylor] needed a CNC router to do some more complex projects ... He lucked out though and managed to get the Y-axis and Z-axis track and carriages as free samples — hooray for ...

This 5-axis CNC router could soon be an open source tool ... It is extremely large, and in addition to the X, Y, and Z axes that you’d expect to find on CNC machinery, it can tilt and rotate ...

CNC routers have a minimum of 3 axes: X, Y and Z, or a 3 dimensional tool travel path. Some have more which means the tool head, or spindle, can rotate the router bit from one to three dimensions. For ...