Archive for the ‘grbl’ Category

Digispark controls ESC – I2C and manual control

As you might have guessed, i’ve built a (small) 3-axis CNC machine. Main control is via a Arduino Uno R2. The spindle consists of a brushless motor, a ESC and a digispark. More details to follow soon …


Digispark boots instantly

To make a digispark boot into your app without the 5s bootup delay follow these instructions. If you need to (re)program the digispark, just shorten P5 to GND. I’m using a digispark as a speed controller for my grbl based cnc router. With the standard 5s boot delay, the ESC’s signal detection window was missed [...]


Developing for Arduino on Eclipse

As a side-project I started to develop on the Arduino platform (more on the project-of-the-day later). First Steps Getting going on windows was easy: setting up Arduino 1.0.1, compiling and running the “blink” demo, changing the frequency etc … was straightforward. Then: i found grbl. Flashing the premade 0.8a firmware from grbl – instant success. [...]