This is the start of hopefully a short series on how to make a control cabinet for my Syil mill.
To be clear this is not a how to wire a cnc controller and stepper motors, this is how to make a control cabinet with screen, keyboard, jog run pause and stop buttons, mpg etc.
I have had this in the back of my mind for a fair while and finally got started in this episode.
Hopefully I can make it quite short as I have limited resources I am using an Arduino Leonardo to emulate keystrokes so for instance run is control and R on a conventional keyboard. The Arduino can use a push button press to send those commands to the control pc. This means we can make any combination of keystrokes and buttons to create any control on the pc we chose.
Really cheap with ultimate flexibility. If this goes well I should have a professional (looking at least) cabinet that makes life easier to drive the cnc mill.
I hope you enjoy this and join me on the journey.
Best
Cazual Haze
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