Ultimate DIY CNC Controller

[@iforce2d]

Very nice enclosure. "started many many months ago..." yeah I know what you mean. Our 3 month lockdown finally relaxed a bit here so I'm making progress on mine again :)

[@alexchiosso221]

Very nice job and an outstanding keyboard assembly. The E-Stop solution should be wired as an electromechanical circuit and at least a redundant circuit then wired to the axis and spindle drive enable inputs and then to the Mach3/4 logic. You can use an E-Stop Module from Pilz , Telemechanique (Schneider-Electric) or whatever equivalent and certified solution. Thank you. :-)

[@mokuroglucnc]

Thank you very much for an inspiring video.

[@MillVIPCNC]

Wow!! Good job!

[@CryoftheProphet]

This is absolute awesome..

[@Ale_Lab]

Very well made. I am also machine a control panel using arduino. I was wondering how did you mange to have enough input on the Arduino to receive all the keyboard buttons? In may case I have only made like your 4x4 macro keyboard but the standard keyboard is a Bluetooth one for that reason. Thank you.

[@DarkArtGuitars]

The trick is to wire them in a matrix, if you want to know more about that, check out any of my keyboard videos.

[@Ale_Lab]

@@DarkArtGuitars ok I will. thank you, but I kinda imagine what you mean. Smart approach

[@fehmiatas]

[@thenoob629]

hi. can you please tell me how to connect more than 4 input signals in mach 3. i mean is there a way to do that?

[@DarkArtGuitars]

That depends on your controller board, but I'm not aware of any limitation from mach 3, my board has around a dozen inputs.

[@andrewvanstaden9944]

flippen good idea

[@manpreetsinghsonuchannal5602]

Good

[@seimela]

Mach 4?

[@DarkArtGuitars]

I use Mach4 on my big BF30 CNC conversion and Mach3 on the RatRig KillerBee. In retrospect I would just go with Mach3 for both, much cheaper and sadly still more featured although it is very old.

[@MJPilote]

If you were a machinist you would not have made a keyboard like that, trust me the chips get to every little opening in everything. Looks cool but not functional at all.