wolfCatWorkshop

Thank you so much for posting this instructable Lewis! it was a fun build. I did it with parts i had from an older 3d printer so I had to make some changes like specifying a different number of steps per mm in the GRBL settings and reversing the direction of travel. I also made a mistake ordering the linear rail, turns out there are two types and I got the narrower one for which I just designed an adapter (which is not ideal in terms of rigidity but I made it work).Also after several times when I forgot to zero out the position I decided to add an E-Stop button (which is simply a matter of wiring a normally open switch on to the CNC shield). Software wise it was hard to get the mi GRBL extension to work but installing Inkscape 0.91 on my mac mini did the trick.Awesome design, great instru…

Thank you so much for posting this instructable Lewis! it was a fun build. I did it with parts i had from an older 3d printer so I had to make some changes like specifying a different number of steps per mm in the GRBL settings and reversing the direction of travel. I also made a mistake ordering the linear rail, turns out there are two types and I got the narrower one for which I just designed an adapter (which is not ideal in terms of rigidity but I made it work).Also after several times when I forgot to zero out the position I decided to add an E-Stop button (which is simply a matter of wiring a normally open switch on to the CNC shield). Software wise it was hard to get the mi GRBL extension to work but installing Inkscape 0.91 on my mac mini did the trick.Awesome design, great instructions and great video! :)