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Acknowledgments

I must thank my brother Karl who inspired me to write this book and
my editor Judy Bass whose faith and assistance made the book a real-
ity. I'd also like to thank Patricia Wallenburg who assembled my words
and images into book form. Judy an d Patricia have made this book
project an extre mely enjoyable expe rience. Finally my tha nks go out to
all the people who have freely shared with me their know ledge and
assistance wh ile I was resea rching and .bui lding my CNC machine.
I must thank the following co mpanies for allowing me to include some
of their copyrighted materia l in this book.

The NuArc Company, Inc. does n' t promote, endorse. or warranty an y
modified products. NuArc let me reproduce some of the images from
the repair manual of the copy camera I disassembled but they don 't
endorse the use of their products for anything ot her tha n the ir origi-
nally intended function. You can conta ct NuArc at M&R Sales and
Service, Inc. I N. 372 Main Street , Glen Ellyn, IL 60 137, USA or on the
Web at http:/ /www.nua rc.com.
Kellyware has allowed me to use scree n captures of the program
KCam 4. Kellyware can be contacted at PO Box 563 . Spirit Lake. Iowa
52360, USA or on the web at http:/ /www.kellyware.com.
The product data sheets included with Chapter 2 of this book have
been reprinted with the permission of STMicroelectronics. The docu-
ments reproduced in this book and many more useful application
notes ca n be found at the STMicroe lectronics Web site located at
http:/ / www.st.com.
Scien ce Specialists, Inc. ha s given me permiss ion to include screen
captures of the software ACME Profller, Coyote Version 6.0. Science
Specialists, Inc. can be reached at 1800 Shec kler Rd.. Columbia City,
IN 4675, USA or on the Web at httpt/zwwwzfwt.com/ v. klmble/
scispec/scispec. htm.