A-Axis on FluidDial
A-Axis rotary table support for FluidDial on PiBot CNC Pendant.
A-Axis rotary table support for FluidDial on PiBot CNC Pendant.
4th axis with FluidNC, PiBot, and a Genmitsu 4040 Pro Max CNC Router.
First cuts with FluidNC at the control.
Using trash bags to protect my CNC Router rails and leadscrews from debris after spending hundreds of dollars trying to fit accordion style machine protection.
Easily add proximity sensors to the front (+) end of each of the Y axes on a SainSmart Genmitsu 4040 Pro Max CNC Router.
First video of cnc controller upgrade project. Interesting perspective of how far the project has progressed and expanded.
I discovered that the factory Genmitsu controller runs GRBL 1.1 that is only able to support 3 axes and isn’t upgradable to any other controller firmware.
Wait, what??? The Genmitsu 4040 Pro Max GRBL 1.1 controller doesn’t support a 4th axis?!? How can that be? SainSmart sold it to me clearly stating it’s for the 4040 Pro Max. Well turns out that one must do a lot of special tricks to use the rotary table. Yes, GRBL 1.1 only supports 3…
A few weeks after ordering and not seeing the status on the SainSmart web site change to shipped, I sent an email to check on it. And that’s when the black hole of never ending time and money sucking began.