Stepper motors are precise and powerful tools used in every type of precision cutting and manufacturing including CNC machines, mills, lathes, printers, laser cutters and more!
The Arduino microcontroller is capable of integrating with a CNC shield to control several stepper motors required for a 3-axis gantry found in CNC and 3D printing applications. We need the GRBL library installed on the Arduino and we use the Universal G-Code Sender IDE to actually control the stepper positions!
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The CNC Shield Kit I purchased from amazon can be found here:
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The Arduino IDE can be downloaded here:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/software
The GRBL GitHub link is here:
https://github.com/grbl/grbl
The universal G-Code sender is here:
https://winder.github.io/ugs_website/download/
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction and hardware required for Arduino CNC system
01:05 Assembling the Arduino CNC shield circuit components
02:56 Installing software, setting up for GRBL and universal G-code sender
06:19 Testing the stepper motors using GRBL and universal G-code
07:40 Thank you and future plans