CNC 3020 Enclosure/Upgrade

[Pointy]

I did some of the rewiring yesterday, but today I decided to have a play with the LCD screen as I woke up with a pain in my shoulder and didn't fancy playing about in the cold workshop.

It was really satisfying to get it all working, the Mach3 plugin communicates with the custom HID device and this then displays the information on the LCD screen. Here's a sample picture...

I still might change what information is displayed on the screen, but that should be no problem now the basic hardware and code are working.

[Pointy]

Just to finish off, I added the joystick and keyboard control code. The only problem is, there are limited built in keyboard shortcuts in Mach3, so I think I will have to add some of my own to the custom screenset I have designed.

All in all, I am pretty happy with this part of the project. However, I think I might design a PCB which will allow me to plug in the Teensy++ 2.0 module, and then solder all the connecting wires to the PCB, rather than solder direct to the actual module.