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Description: Clank is an Open Source CNC Machine Platform that uses 3D Printed components with a low cost off-the-shelf BOM. Clank implements a live toolchanger that allows it to perform almost any CNC process, and runs a modular controller.
Menu Expand (external link) Document Search Copy Copied Clank About Tool Changer and Tools Ultra Plotter Rotary Module DC Spindle Module FDM Extruder Makita Router Mudstick Rotary Knife Building Clank Hotplate Toolchanger Core XY Variant Lifter Variant Composable Mechanical Details Performance This site uses Just the Docs , a documentation theme for Jekyll. Clank: Fabricatable, Modular CNC Clank is a highly fabricatable, modular, tool-changing CNC machine from the MIT CBA MTM Project .
Clank is an open, highly fabricatable 1 CNC machine that implements an automated toolchanger 2 , so that we can use a common motion platform to accomplish a variety of CNC tasks. This design serves the “mid-macro” length scale, fabricating almost anything with characteristic lengths of ~ 10 - 1000mm, with feature sizes down to 0.25mm at a resolution near 0.05mm 3 .
Clank refers to a machine platform consisting of three variants; the -corexy (which is the most up-to-date), the -stretch and the flying-xy, or -fxy , which serve “wide-and-flat” and “tall-and-skinny” tasks respectively. All variants implement similar design languages, very similar BOMs, and use the same toolchanger and tools .
OSAP: Open Systems Assembly Protocol | OSAP