Doing some development work on Gsender and wanted a way to monitor the real world functionality.. so I grabbed a $7 cnc shield for my UNO R3 and a few nema 17 steppers. Now I can watch them do the dance of their people.
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@RiftCoder Welcome to the group, John. Your setup sure beats the heck out of my Uno on a USB cable. 
Thanks! You’re halfway there though! 
@RiftCoder Yeah, but in this case, half isgood enough. I got the spare Uno early on in gSender development. It has let me play with the interface sitting in my office rather than standing at the LM. A long time member here @heyward43 put me onto the idea. Also, it means that I can’t break anything. It’s of limited use now since I have the SLB on my LM, but it does help me to reply to questions here from time to time.
I do like your fancy one, though.
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Nice.. that’s exactly why I started with the Uno and loading GRBL on it. I wanted to at least get Gsender into a connected state.. then my mind wandered. I’m wanting to work on probing and seeing/hearing the steppers move just feels like a nice part of running under “debug” .. I need to get a switch setup to trigger the probe. For me it’s also a good way to get familiar with the fundamentals.. playing with gcodes as I learn them.. etc
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If you got any tips on how to get gSender building in the github action, let me know. It wants to publish to npm but I don’t have any of that setup, so my fork fails to compile.
@greg5 I just posted a breakdown on my build process over here Building gSender - #6 by NeilFerreri
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