Sometimes CNC controllers do without the use of a computer, but I think it greatly limits the possibility of extending the functions of the machine. It consists of various electronic circuit boards, computer and a computer program that controls the movement of the machine’s motors, calculate speed and other. Actually, it's called CNC system, but often it is called a CNC controller.ĬNC controller - is the brain of the machine.

The Internet is full of different instructions on how to make beautiful / reliable / cheap / big / small homemade DIY CNC router.īut I’ve never found how to make a reliable, inexpensive and beautiful CNC controller. These are the screen shot of when i connected usb controller to laptop etc etc.What is a CNC machine? This is a cool thing, which can be used to make other very cool things!ĬNC router can cut (eg, plastic or wood) different parts which can then be composed to something (eg a robot or a holder for a beer). I will post the images in sequence one by one to show what I have done and what i am using for the time being to get the usb controller working. If someone can look at the images and find some flaw somewhere i would be grateful. but the stepper motor did not make any noise or turn, is just appears to stay still. I loaded GCodes for the Roadrunner and ran it. and it blinks, about 1 per second, What ever i do in the Mach3, this Red light remains Red and blinks at same 1 per second. There is a Red light on the USB controller that comes on when i connect to LapTop. so i assume the Lap Top to the USB input of USB Controller is also ok. I went to Device Manager and it did not show any Yellow Triangle, and from a video i saw, what is written against Human Interface Devices, the same was on my Lap Top. When i first connected the USB controller to the Laptop, i got a notification of installing driver, and then it said ready for use. When i connect this grey coloured box called pf-frequency-v1 0 to the stepper driver, it works perfect and stepper motors runs good. But from many videos i can see that even if ENA is not connected anywhere, the stepper motor should run. I can't figure out where to hook up ENA as there is no ENA marked on the USB Board. The Stepper Driver has 4 inputs, 5V, CLK, DIR, ENA. I have not seen any such thing on youtube, and am unable to find any CD or software for this USB controller. So am i supposed to load some software apart from Mach3 to use this USB Controller. The USB controller did not come with any CD. I have set up Mach3 as per videos that show how to do it. Now these are the images of what i am using just for a trial run, before i actually touch my CNC electronic.īut for some reason the stepper is not moving.

After many years I decided to convert my Router to USB Controller as my XP PC has to be thrown out.

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