Cantilever design will be fine for small machines. One of the bigger problems of the design would be keeping one's work piece attached to the table. For contr

Cantilever design will be fine for small machines. One of the bigger problems of the design would be keeping one's work piece attached to the table. For controller software I would recommend customizing klipper[1] that runs on RPi/most controllers for custom kinematics. It's written in python and C and it's well documented. https://github.com/KevinOConnor/klipper https://github.com/KevinOConnor/klipper