Firstly a huge thanks to Edward for starting this whole thing, and to Cat for putting together the eShapeoko. It's an amazingly well put together kit, I was so excited by the fact that everything had it's own little labelled bag I was apprehensive about having to dump them all out to actually build the thing and instead took up a very precise process of counting out pieces for each step, photographing them and then proceeding to build that stage, I'm not really sure why, maybe someone slipped Ritalin in my coffee.
Here is what my setup looks like at the moment.

I bought an eShapeoko with dual Y and dual X upgrades.
I'm running LinuxCNC on an old desktop I had lying around (a Dell Optiplex GX260).
Currently the spindle is my Dremel 4000, but I want to change that, because I'd rather keep my Dremel free for other things.
If it works out alright I'll just buy a cheap rotary tool, otherwise I've no idea what spindle to put in.
It's currently running off of a 12V power supply. I've got a 24V supply on order. Is the reason to use 24V (or slightly less than) to get faster speeds? I've run my axis up to 100mm/s with no problems, so do I really need to switch over to 24V?
Other than the new paint job I haven't made any major modifications.
I've got 4 a4988's hooked up to a stepper shield, but because I'm using LinuxCNC I had to construct an interface board myself.

It's based around Bart Dring's open source 4 axis stepper controller, there's not much on there, just schmitt triggers for isolation, a 5v regulator, some pull down resistors and a few filtering capacitors.
Then the shield just plugs in like normal.

In that picture you can see that I was testing out paracord to group my stepper cables. I have a bunch of 550 cord so, I used it to sheath my X and Y motor cables.
It was a bit of a pain, but it adds a lot of rigidity to the cables and has stopped them snagging on things, like the other wires continue to do.
I've got a bunch of microswitches ready to add limits. Luckily the switches I have fit the mounting holes, so that should be easy. Although I'm not sure what to do with the Z max switch. The best I can come up with is to mount it to the side of the Z makerslide and have one of the protruding bolt ends trigger it?
I've also got a load of t nuts on order ready to make myself a proper clamp system.
And to finish off here's the obligatory video.
Thanks for reading,
- Tom