Hi! Thanks for watching. Let me know if you have any other Arduino project ideas that you would like me to make videos on. Thanks!😃

This was a great video, very well laid out. I have one huge suggestion, almost a request. Add 2 axis stepper control with Grbl and one servo for pen up/down for those that are looking to build a plotter. There are literally zero videos out there explaining how this works or how to do it and the way you did this video would be perfect for that. Please consider doing this, I can almost guarantee that video will get a massive amount of views and it’ll help a ton of people. Thanks for the video 🍻

Incredibly helpful. Thanks very much.

This is a great video. When the probing command is sent to the arduino it moves the z axis and waits until the moment when a connection occurs between pin A5 of the arduino to GND. These pins (A4 and A5 are also used by the arduino for I2C communications).

OUTSTANDING, thank you very much!!!

Very informative. Thanks for taking the time to explain G-code and go thru the software setup. Feel like I can build my own cnc machine now. 👍

Really comprehensive overview found that interesting 😀

This is super helpful. Thanks!

Very interesting video! I'm curious to know how your "non Z axis" works. I made a CNC machine myself, many years ago (using a couple of 16F84), with a Z axis that could only go up and down to some predefined positions. It used two moving elements: a motor-controlled guide, and the spindle carrier itself. The guide could only grab the spindle carrier from its bottom to rise it, or go down to release it. When the guide was lowered to the defined position, the spindle carrier was allowed to freely go down until it reached the guide again (there was a sensor detecting it). I used this approach because one of the main purposes of that machine was drilling holes, and also because it was very rudimental. The spindle carrier was spring loaded, and I could adjust the force of the tool on the material by manually adjusting the spring... very rudimental, I know

Just what I was looking for, thank you.

Hey man! I loved the video! I've been dreaming up an idea to work on out of my garage by creating a dispensing cartesian machine. I've gone over your blog and this video, but I need some help with the basics of mechanical assembly. Do you have a video of your mechanical build? If not, would you have like 30mins to do a Zoom or Teams call for some pointers? I would really appreciate it! I am in a pickle right having been laid off a few days ago and I'm really wanting to put some energy into this plan this week.

Hello Awesome video I learned a lot !! Could you explain a little more about your use of two cnc shields and how you make the two communicate I can't find anything online about it.

Need the video thank you sir.

Very nice explanation. Thnx

thanks fr explaining it really clearly for newbies like myself .. Very much appreciated man.. I'm attempting to rebuild my 1st attempt at a CNC home build but it wasn't working the way I had hoped. I bought the CNC shield with the 4 small steppers but I also have a kit of tb6600's with the nema 17's and nema 23's. I wanted to ask if it's ok to use the tb6600's with the Arduino? I'm a complete newbie to this whole electronics game but I want to build this CNC machine. It's only using 2020, 2060, 2080 extruded Aluminium but I'm hoping it's going to work fine for my 1st proper attempt. I'm going to use belts and pulleys for my 1st real go at this. Even though I know it's better to use Ball screws for better performance with the Linear rails but right now I have what I have and I ant to use the belts for now. Eventually I will buy the Proper ball screws and other parts to build a better CNC machine but for now the belts will hopefully work for now. I might need to use stronger belts in the future when I go bigger with the extruded Aluminium but for now I'm using what I have. When it comes time to rebuild it I will keep the parts for a bigger Laser

Thank you for the video 👍

Thank you.

Very well done and informative, my parts are on the way for a simple 3 axis Mini Mill This will help me out a lot. But I wanted to use Fusion 360 to get Geometry that then goes to G Code. In 3D Print we have a Slicer, Is there a Slicer function for this DIY setup? Dennis

nice machine

great video i d prefer a qucker one, but it has the data. i need to manufacture some of this machines

Hi, very nice, please what about the servo? Will be very interesting and complete if you complete this series whit the servo GRBL and Arduino and code set-up.

Do you have a project on using the A-axis? Would it be possible to add a 4th axis to a desktop (3018 type) CNC router? I could not find any example project on this.

09:19 How did you rename it as *grbl XY only?* Will it work if I only rename the folder *grbl* before adding into *Arduino?*

Thanks for the video. You earned thumbs up and a subscription. Just my 2 cents but you could probably eliminate the phrase "go ahead" from your vocabulary.

Well explained video. Liked and subscribed.

Can we use a servo motor in z axis with out making much change in the code ....plz put a video on how to generate G code using some software....plz reply...to

Very helpful indeed. Possible to do 6axis with 2 CNC modules? Thanks for your sharing ❤

I would send gcode from a smartphone to an old CNC Fanuc Sigma VC1000 that has an old rs232 serial 25 pin. After that I would monitoring this machine (maybe sending it some command to the serial and the machine could answer me about start, stop, allar, type alarm, but I don't know if it possible, maybe yes). Could you help me in this little project? Thanks.

Intersting never seen a arduino cnc with more then one shield

I ran into an issue, after I downloaded the zip, I followed your steps verbatim but when I open grblmaster I see the examples folder but thats all, nothing else is in the folder. Any ideas as to why this might happen?

Is it possible to set two different A-axis?

Which pin used to connect z prob on uno shield?

I really liked your explanation. Good job. Can this setup for your custom dispenser be applied to a CNC Lathe? I think we can assign the X to the carriage, Y to the Cross-slide and the extruder to the spindle. Apart from the hardware, what differences would there be in the programming? Thanks

Hi, I would like to control a motor 3phase with arduino, I have a driver card Brushless 3 click of Mikroelectronika , I tried to control it with PWM of arduino but it didn't fonctionne

Hi i have a question, i plugged my steppers exactly in like you did on the cnc shield but when i only want to move X, the Y also moves and this the other way around the same, when i move Y, X also moves along, how can i fix this?

Hi bro, can you do this on ramps

Hi, thanks for explanation. I have a question, I'm using v1.1 grbl and I did the same changes as you in config.h, however, UGS still sees Z axis and when I try to home, Z axis is moving while it shouldn't. Do you have any idea why is it like that?

Thanks for all you are doing. I am confused about the second Arduino running custom code. The Arduino running grbl is connected to the computer. The second one, with the shield is not. Have you uploaded a custom code to the second Arduino to operate the dispenser motor? Would you please explain this and may be share the custom code? May be, I am missing something. Thanks much.

Problems moving X-Y axes of the 2D plotter. When I press the X+ or X- axis on the jog controller, the plotter moves at an angle, the same goes for the Y+ and Y-. When I press the slanted arrows it does move horizontally or vertically. The system works in reverse. How can I change that?

Make vidio on tool path,and 8 hole on pcd

Hi, I'm new to GRBL. When I extract the grbl-master, the resulting folder does contain a folder by the name of 'grbl' but it is not a zip folder and so is not recognized by the Arduino IDE 'add zip library'. Please, any comments that may help me. PS. I used the link provided by you.

Not cutting circle in my grbl CNC. I have build cnc using Arduino, grbl shield, nema23, 8mm trapezoidal lead screw.. can you please help with grbl settings? Especially with steps/mm

Hey what ate you powering the shield with? Is 12v 5A OK then limit outputs at each driver?

If I click "open" with IDE 2.x then it does nothing else as open the folder in the file browser instead importing it. What can I do? Do I have to install the 12V on the CNC shield that the stepper could work or is just to test the USB power enough to rotate the motors?

when i try to include the library it just keeps opening empty folders...

can i run 2 servos independently and 2 stepper motors using GRBL and the same CNC shield?

Where connect spindle

when you add library and select grbl why if it is looking for a .zip file do we pick a non-zip file. My setup never allows me to pick the grbl folder. So I pick the actual zip file and that errors

I have a problem with "Specified folder/zip file does not contain a valid library "

I am running IDE v2.1 and it will not load the GRBL Library. Is there a library to use with the current version?

Specified folder/zip file does not contain a valid library ?????

6:06 When I try to attach the zip file, it just opens the file farther, rather than attaching it. If it matters, I have windows 11

I bought one of these, but fried the contoller . . .

Hey there! I am currently working on a project related to Arduino and CNC shield, and I have a few doubts. Is there any way I can get in touch with you? Do you have any social media handles?

I loaded the grbl library into the IDE, but loading the sketch into the Arduino gives me: fatal error: avr/io.h: No such file or directory #include