Need a guildline to make X-Y motion table,i'm new b.

[dotatornado]

What should i start with doing this X-Y motion table. this is my finaly year project. hope that have some body will  give some guild line that how to start.

[KambeiX]

from 2 old printers you can get motors and other stuff

google for home cnc or hobby cnc

[dotatornado]

thank a lot .

Now I'm having a troubles is about me should use what model of micro controller? In this site me din have any knowledge about it.

I'm trying to make the x-y table can memorize some coordinate, than after pressing start, the table will move to the  specify location by itself.

[Admin]

You will need encoders:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/sensors_encoder.shtml

The microcontroller I use in my $50 robot will work fine for you:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/step_by_step_robot.shtml

You will also need two motor drivers:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_parts_list_electronics.shtml

this should help too:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/actuators_dcmotors.shtml

and to design your power regulation:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/schematics_powerregulation.shtml


Instead of using encoders and DC motors, you have the other option of using stepper motors and a stepper motor driver.
http://www.societyofrobots.com/actuators_steppers.shtml
(its a fairly badly written tutorial, just never got around to fixing it up)


Lastly, I highly recommend designing the whole thing in CAD first. Use Google Sketchup (its free).
http://sketchup.google.com/index.html