Hello from Lincoln UK (Converting Warco WM14, need to learn G-Code or CAD CAM)

Few years out of date but hi.
Arsuino does work and people do use it, but in my ,limited, knowledge I hear it has noise issues.

But it all depends on your budget.

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Originally Posted by Keith Franks

Hi I've had warco wm14 few months now and have decided iam going to covert mill but finding information is stuff warco dont have any kit for wm14 conversion but horizontal feed could easily done using arduino controler to give feed rates to servo motor and there is some available programs that with little tinkering would give adjustable feed rates like you adjust mill cutters speed and also give you micro adjustment ie if your couple of thousandth out just a case of adjusting code heres my email if you need to chat [email protected]

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There are much easier and better ways to control the CNC side. LinuxCNC for instance is Free, all you need is a PC with a parallel port and a £5 breakout board and away you go with a super powerful Control software that is massively upgradeable. Arduino is a toy in comparison.

For less than £300 you can have a fully working CNC system comprising, PC, Steppers, drives, BOB, PSU

I'll offer a different perspective. If (and this the significant qualification here) - you're just looking to generate steps to a stepper/servo driver to generate dumb motion on an axis, then an Arduino (read: robust microcontroller devices, conveniently packaged onto a cheap accessible board) can be a simple and cost effective solution, and with a boot time of less than a second through the boot loader you don't have to worry with the vagaries of Windows or Linux. But, go anymore complicated (and I'll include the GRBL projects) and they will run out of steam quickly.

Full CNC - use a full-fat controller (inc. Windows/Linux). Pulse-trains, a programmable microcontroller is viable.