In that case, grab your Arduino and heat up that etching solution to make your own GRBL compatible shield. This familiar footprint manages to contain everything you need for a three-axis machine.

Universal (ish) Arduino grbl opto-coupler interface also works with logic-level pwm In adding an alternative cutter drive motor (‘spindle’) to an existing cnc machine, an electrically isolated pwm to ...

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 ...

Plus the Arduino needs to be plugged into the host computer via USB to function, a rather quaint idea to many in 2018. These were just some of the reasons he decided to port Grbl to the ESP32 board.