Thanks to the sheer volume of cool hacks out there, though, we do miss one occasionally, like this e-waste horizontal CNC mill that we just found out about. Aptly called the “CDCNC” thanks to ...

he decided to see how hard it would be to turn his small desktop CNC into his own personal key cutting machine. All it took for [Bolsterman] to turn his mill into a key cutting machine was a 3/8th ...

I upgraded from the Taig to an Avid CNC Benchtop Pro 2x3 desktop CNC, and added a CNCDepot S30C spindle + Fogbuster to round it out. The BenchtopPro is somewhere between a desktop CNC and a small VMC.