Especially for innovative education in higher classes Unimat CNC is an interesting option. Due to the modular construction an almost infinte number of application possibilities arise. The Unimat CNC slides of the mill and the lathe are equiped with  2A stepper motors.

Some of the characteristics are:

• Cross Slide: travel 50mm (extendable)
• Longitudinal Slide: travel 145mm (extendable)
• Accuracy: max. 0.07mm
• up to 4 CNC axes

Particularly noteworthy are the low costs of this system. Instead of purchasing industrial machines 
those eat up the entire budget for years (high entry costs and ongoing expenditures for maintenance)
and on top of that are not at  the students' disposal, with Unimat CNC an entire machine park can be made available at only a part of the costs. Students can now use this machines actively and autonomously.

The machines are controlled via the free software machinekit (pre-installed on motion controller Sandybox CNC LIN-EMB-S) or with the included bundle CoolCNC Linux. Therefore students can also install the software free of charge and exercise at home.

What was designed in a CAD application can be converted into machine code in a CAM application.
Machinekit (resp. EMC2) offers a grafical interface as well as sufficient insight into the G-code.

Curriculum example:

Curriculum secondary level II specialized grammar school, engineering, Schleswig Hollstein, Germany. pp. 33:

"Knowledge about automated production facilities …planning and processing of selected components ... the emphases must be on automation of production processes as well as on the CAD-CAM combination and quality management. … Processing of parts should be executed automated and students should be integrated in the process chain.”