The entire thing costs around 6-700$ to make. Without labor. If you count that with a reasonable rate you would have to allocate around $1600. Motor is a 90-0Oz/Inch $100 one from Ebay/Hongkong/China in this case and the electronics are from geckodrives.com. I use EMC on Linux with a realtime kernel. MS-Windows and Mach3 would work as well but has the usual MS dependent 'features' which means that it will work and that there is a reasonable explanation every time it fails. Other parts I either had or ordered from McMasters which happens to be almost around the corner.
Cheers
Lemo


PS: You also need a Small Machine Shop to make it... Mill, Lathe, Bandsaw...etc... etc... all that good stuff which brings one close to a divorce....