Let me introduce you to the PrintNC, a kind-of-high-end hobbyist CNC: * https://wiki.printnc.info/en/home https://wiki.printnc.info/en/home * https://github.c

Let me introduce you to the PrintNC, a kind-of-high-end hobbyist CNC: * https://wiki.printnc.info/en/home https://wiki.printnc.info/en/home * https://github.com/threedesigns/printNC https://github.com/threedesigns/printNC * Discord invite: https://discord.gg/RxzPna6 https://discord.gg/RxzPna6 <-- extremely active CNC enthusiast discord It's "kind of high end" as it uses steel beams (not aluminium) for rigidity, so it's capable of driving some really powerful gear... fairly cheaply. :) The US$2k you mention above would indeed be the practical lower bound.