So what’s the trick to running a whopping seventeen individual stepper motors directly from the digital pins of an Arduino Mega?

[Reza Naima] has been using an Arduino as the center of his CNC setup for quite some time now. It handles three stepper motors, limiting switches, e-stop, and spindle control. The sketch he’s… ...

grbl is stepper motor controller firmware for three-axis cnc machines, intended to run on Arduinos with a motor driver add-on board. Engineer in Wonderland cnc-related blogs are indexed here It is the ...

Step Two: Copy, Paste, and Run the Code in Arduino Open the Arduino software and paste the Arduino code (the text in the box near the bottom of the post) into a new sketch.

Arduino is the ultimate DIY electronics platform and can be tons of fun for the aspiring engineer. If you want to learn the ins-and-outs of Arduino programming, check out this complete starter kit ...