grbl is stepper motor controller firmware for three-axis cnc machines, intended to run on Arduinos with a motor driver add-on board. It is the result of an amazing open-source project, and once more I ...

After a time with a multimeter and scope, the othewise-undocumented Cronos board for home-build cnc machines has revealed some of its secrets. Power rails are well thought out (see below) and seem ...

With the continuing manufacture of new computers, there is a clear and obvious trend of the parallel port becoming less and less common. For our younger readers; the parallel port is an interface ...

It seems like every year, it gets a bit easier to build your own CNC. From the Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) project of the early 1990s to Arduinos running Grbl in the late 2000s, the open source ...